Ben Wolfe – Bass Joe Cool’s Blues is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis that was released in 1995. The album consists of a series of songs inspired by the Peanuts comic strip and television specials. Half of the songs are cover versions of pieces by Vince Guaraldi, who composed for the Peanuts franchise from 1965…

Geddy Lee – Bass Well, I thought. While I am here, I might as well….. Complete bass performance by Geddy Lee of the whipping boy of their back catalogue ‘The Necromancer’ from the 1975 Rush album, ‘Caress of Steel’. It was the dawn of the Punk era and Peart comes up with this bit of…

Geddy Lee – Bass When I started doing this website, I quickly realised that I was transcribing things that not many other people were posting/publishing. Since then, I have never thought of posting anything for any other reason that I fancied the challenge. I am not particularly interested in how popular the tunes I post…

Geddy Lee – Bass Caress of Steel was released on September 24, 1975. By March 1976, it had sold around 40,000 copies in Canada. Although the band initially had high hopes for the album, it sold fewer copies than Fly by Night and was considered a disappointment by the record company. The album eventually became known as one of Rush’s…

Paul del. Harwood – Bass I love this album and I love Harwood’s grounded playing. I actually got to see the band at the Port Vale stadium in Stoke On Trent (along with Randy Rhodes era Ozzy and Fast Eddie era Motorhead – that was a hell of a day – I travelled to the…

Anthony Jackson – Bass We love Anthony Jackson – he’s the Governor. Clearly a man of considerable integrity and someone who takes his playing very seriously. His reluctance to solo despite his obvious capacity to do so is testament to his musicality and it is to his credit that composers seek him out specifically because…

J.S. Bach – Bass This is my transcription of the Prelude to Cello Suite N0. VI in D Major. I have a seven string bass and it fits on there but I think it should be ok on a six or even a 5 but there are some low D’s that will screw up a…

Unknown – Bass The bass part for this piece is written so, in that sense, the identity of the player is not that important. This is a simple bass part that probably mirrors that of a dozen other pieces by the legendary composer/bandoneon player Astor Piazolla. The compositions by this Argentinian musician are hugely popular…

Stefan Lessard – Bass Lessard was born in Anaheim, California, to musicians Ron and Jacqueline Lessard. After moving a number of times during his childhood, Lessard and his family eventually settled in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1987. After moving back to Charlottesville, he enrolled in the Tandem Friends School, where he studied music under trumpeter John…

Andy West – Bass I sometimes think that Andy West is one of the coolest guys on the planet. He has certainly played some of the coolest bass parts with one of the coolest bands that every walked the stage. The Dixie Dregs were so uncool they were ice cold cool. Even the name came…