Bass Player: Scott Sutherland This one came in as a request off Talkbass and features Scott Sutherland’s 12:8 shuffle groove on Tommy Castro’s ‘Backup Plan’ from his 2009 album ‘Hard Believer’.

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another tune from the 1979 Bruford album ‘One Of A Kind’. This is Bruford’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ reference… Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?” Reading in 9:8, for starters. The…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin From his 1997 CD ‘Taking Notes’, this is a slightly more measured composition with the really interesting note choices we have come to expect from Jeff but at a tempo that allows us mere mortals to find a way in. There is a lot to sixteenth note reading in this piece…

Bass Player: Neil Murray This transcription came as a request from the hallowed forums of Basschat.co.uk. Bilbo has a background in heavy metal, having played with NWOBHM band ‘No Quarter’ whilst in his teens and he has enjoyed Neil Murray’s work with Whitesnake, Gary Moore and a few other rockers as well as his Jazz…

Bass Player: Mike Rutherford A beautiful Tony Banks composition, ‘Evidence Of Autumn’ was originally released as the B-side to the single ‘Misunderstanding’. Some really interesting chord voicings in the introduction and the bass part is not particularly difficult but it is always interesting to hear how Rutherford orchestrates his bass parts and incorporates them within…

Bass Player: Bobby Sheehan Blues Traveler are a Rock band with a unique selling point in the form of singer/harmonica player/lyricist John Popper. As is often the case, however, stella frontmen can mask the strengths of the rest of the band and Bobby Sheehan suffered a little from that. His lines are certainly a little…

Bass Player: Jonas Hellborg An intriguing, if obscure, album, Jonas Hellborg’s ‘The Word’ features the Swedish bass player alongside drummer Tony Williams and the Soldier String Quartet. The transcription is of the opening track ‘Akasha’ which is only 54 seconds long. The pulse is very slow and has been interpreted as you see it here…

Bass Player (and composer): Jeff Berlin Jeff Berlin’s composition ‘Joe Frazier’ first appeared on the 1980 Bruford album ‘Gradually Going Tornado’. The main theme of the tune is a bass/piano unison head which places demands on the bass player that, in those days at least, were way out of the reach of the average bass…

Bass Player: John Patitucci When the Chick Corea Elektric Band’s eponymous debut was released in 1986 and brough the attention of the world to a new voice on the electric and double bass, Mr. John Patitucci. Patitucci blew everyone’s minds with his chops on the legendary ‘Go A Match’? but the tune that is transcribed…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Slight departure this time. The transcription is not the recorded/published version of ‘Joe Frazier Round Three’ but a transcription of the video Jeff posted on YouTube under the title ‘In The Studio With Jeff Berlin’. The section that has been transcribed starts 2:34 and features some great ‘out’ playing (where Jeff…