John Patitucci – Bass Another in the ‘West Side Story’ project, this is the complete Patitucci bass part for the ballad ‘Somewhere; I love the root movement on this. It’s such a simple thing but there is nothing like a simple root note on the one. It’s the meat and potatoes of what we do.…

John Patitucci – Bass Another from the Dave Grusin ‘West Side Story’ recording, this is the complete John Patitucci performance on the tune ‘One Hand, One Heart’. Not too difficult to read as the tempo is quite slow but the harmony moves in strange directions so watch the accidentals.

John Patitucci – Bass This is a great fun chart to read. Mostly swinging quarter notes, there are some interesting unison passages and a great bass solo to keep you interested. The solo is written down an octave to give you a chance but there are a couple of open strings (D and G) in…

John Patitucci – Bass And the ‘West Side Story’ project continues. This is another Patitucci part, this one for the tune ‘Maria’ from Grusin’s 1997 masterpiece. Relatively easy to read but there are some tempo changes that are very subtle in terms of their impact on the groove so you need to keep your ears…

John Patitucci – Bass This is an exquisite rendering of the tune ‘Tonight’ from the Leonard Bernstein musical ‘West Side Story’. There are two things I love about this version of the song and that is the phrasing of Gloria Estafan’s vocal and the phrasing of John Patitucci’s bass. The tempo means that this tune…

John Patitucci – Bass Another contribution to the intended ‘complete album’ collection of John Patitucci bass parts to the 1997 Dave Grusin spectacular ‘West Side Story’, the tune ‘I Feel Pretty’ is essentially a feature for flautist Dave Valentin. The performance opens and closes with a duet between Valentin and pianist Grusin, with around 90…

John Patitucci – Bass What a player, what a band and what an arrangement. The Dave Grusin ‘West Side Story’ album has never been far away from my cd player since I got hold of my first copy when it came out in 1997. The whole album is a masterpiece of big band arranging but…

Hans Glawischnig – Electric Bass Acoustic/ electric bassist and composer Hans Glawischnig grew up in Graz, Austria. His father, a pianist, leader of the free jazz group, The Neighbors, educator, and longtime chief conductor of the NDR big band in Hamburg, Germany, encouraged Hans to pursue a career in music. His American mother, having studied Art…

Will Lee – Bass The hardest working bassist in the business, at least he was at one time. Not so sure nowadays as I am a little bit out of the loop. These Bob Mintzer charts are great because there is a clarity about the bass parts that makes transcribing them relatively easy and the…

John Mole – Bass Whatever happened to…. A member of Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum II, he went on to work with fellow band members Gary Moore and Don Airey. He also played with the UK jazz-funk band Morrissey-Mullen during the late 1970s, and as a session musician, with artists such as Barbra Streisand  and John Dankworth. He was…