Bass Player: Anthony Jackson ‘Rhythmstick’ was a 1990 recording based around the genius of Dizzy Gillespie (he often carried a stick cover in metal bottle caps that he banged on the floort for counting purposes). The band is an ‘all-star’ line up that included people like Dizzy, Phil Woiods, Robben Ford, Airto and Flora Purim.…

Bass Player: John Giblin Another Brand X chart this one ‘And So To F’ from the 1979 album ‘Product’. It is a littel frustrating trying to trancribe Brand X charts as so much of Percy Jones’s bass playing is incredibly eclectic and unconventional. Fortunately, Giblin’s work is more conventional and his lines are a lot…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow This is a transcription of Steve Swallow’s beautiful solo over the Burt Bacharach tune ‘Alfie’ from the 2004 John Scofield Trio live CD ‘En Route’. It is a one chorus solo but it shows Swallow’s mastery of the concept of soloing in a Jazz context. You may have heard of the…

Bass Player: Doug Ferguson Doug Ferguson was the bass guitarist of the band Camel from September 20th 1971 to January 1977. Before he played with Camel, Doug played in a jazz orientated trio called The Brew, along with Camel members Andrew Latimer and Andy Ward. Doug Ferguson was the one who suggested Andy Ward should…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow Taken fron the 2007 album ‘This Meets That’ by the John Scofield Trio, this transcription is a one chorus bass solo by long time Scofield sideman, Steve Swallow. Swallow and Sco have played together since they were at Berklee together in the 1970s and it is apparent from their playing that…

Bass Player: Martin Briley Another relatively easy read, the transcription is Martin Brliley’s bass part for the tuen ‘Waltz For A Fallen Idol’ from the 1975 Greenslade album ‘Time And Tide’. Essentially a Rock ballad with nothing particularly demanding in terms of playing. Just something to give a beginner reading a sense of what is…

Bass Player: Martin Briley Another track from the Greenslade ‘Time And Tide’ album, this one a slightly more sophisticated shuffle called ‘The Flattery Stakes. Martin Briley. A name that is not that well known to most of us but Briley’s WIkipedia pages suggests that he has played and recorded with Meatloaf, Julian Lennon, Bonnie Tyler,…

Bass Player: Not Known Is this a double bass or a VST? The bass player on the rest of the 2000 Kirsty MacColl ‘Tropical Brainstorm’ album is Chucho Merchan whose impressive CV includes Nucleus, Eurythmics, The Pretenders, Thomas Dolby, David Gilmour and many more but the album credits are silent on the bass player on…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson A relatively simple part from the King of the Big Six, it is interesting to look at the detail in the transcription as it shows how, with a little imagination, you can take a simple part and build variations and interest without needing to throw in technical excess. Dave Holland is…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Bilbo first came across this track as one of the pieces of music that Tommy Vance used to use on his Friday Rock Show, long before Bilbo started getting into Jazz and Fusion music. BIlbo was a Heavy Rock fan orginally and did actually record a session for FRS in 1981…