Bass Player: Lincoln Goines A major figure of the New York City Jazz/Latin/studio scene since the early 1980s, Goines’ career includes performance credits as sideman to: Sonny Rollins, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Dave Valentin, Carly Simon, Bob Berg, Jeff Golub, Bob Mintzer, Dizzy Gillespite, Wayen Krantz – this goes on. He is also a highly…

Bass Player: Rob Palmer (Bilbo) During the late Noughties, Bilbo was a member of an Ipswich (UK) based Latin band called ‘Albino Cubana’. The band was a seveb piece outfit that included Bilbo on bass, Michel Cereso (vocs and flute), Phil Grave (kyb), the late Gene Perry (g), Paul Sheppard (trom), John Jermy (tr), Jon…

Bass Player: Rubens Sabino Gilberto Gil is the voice of Brazil. His 1997 album ‘Soy Loco Por Ti America’ features Gil’s usual stable of Brazilian musicians including Ruben (Rubao) Sabino Da Silva, WE have been unable to find any substantive information about Sabino beyond his work with Gil and sessions with Tim Maia and the…

Guitar Player: Steve Howe A bit of fun with this one. Steve Howe recorded this tune on his 1979 album, imaginatively entitled, ‘The Steve Howe Album’. It is essentially an unadorned performance of the Second Movement of a Vivaldi Concerto in D Major. It is performed originally on lute but Howe transposed it onto guitar.…

Bass Player: Tony Banks ‘A Curious Feeling’ was the début solo album from Genesis keyboard player Tony Banks. It was recorded at Abba’s Polar Music Studios during a brief Genesis hiatus and released in 1979 on Charisma Records. It is one of only two of Banks’ solo albums to have entered the UK Albums Chart,…

Bass Player: Darryl Jones Another tune from The Munch. This is Darryl Jones’s bass part to the tune ‘Techno’ from the 1986 John Scofield album ‘Still Warm’. The part is generally a one bar riff with fills, a modulation up a fourth for a second, albeit similar riff, then return to the original riff until…

Bass Player: Darryl Jones Darryl Jones has something of a schizophrenic career as a bass player working with some of the greatest names in Jazz (Miles Davis, John Scofield, Steps Ahead) and Pop (Sting, The Rolling Stones). ‘The Munch’ is a very centred player, a rhythm section giant rather than an exceptional soloists but, either…

Bass Player: Gary Weinrib From the 1977 Rush album, ‘A Farewell To Kings’ this is Geddy Lee’s bass part for the 11:05 epic track, ‘Xanadu’. It is included here so that there is at least one chart on the site that starts with an X. Until the chart was prepared, we didn’t realise that the…

Bass Player: John Scofield (yes, THAT John Scofield!) One of the finest guitarists to ever come out of Berklee, John Scofield attended at the same time as Mike Stern, Jeff Berlin, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Smith and Neil Stubenhaus. Despite his reputation as a guitar player, this is a transcription of the bass part to the…

Bass Player: Dave Holland Whilst the 2001 album, ‘Bill Frissel with Elvin Jones and Dave Holland’ is not the best recording by any of the three participants, it does have it’s highlights and their sweet little performance of the Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer tune, ‘Moon River’ is one of the them. The transcription features Dave Holland’s…