Ron Carter – Bass Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) has appeared on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy Awards  and is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on the instrument. In addition to a solo career of more than 60 years, Carter is well-known for…

Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo (Richard Bona) – Bass Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo was born in Minta, Cameroon into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age. His grandfather was a griot – a West African singer of praise and storyteller – and percussionist, as his mother was a…

Unknown Bass Another piece of Piazolla – I love these melodies. The bass parts tend to be quite simple and really amount to note recognition exercises – watch (listen for) the tempo changes in this one. The chart is in Eb so you need to watch for those accidentals and there are a couple of…

Bob Marshall – Bass The other tune from this album that I like. Major 70s disco thing going on here and I am loving the talk-box guitar solo. Dated, maybe, but cool as it comes.

Bob Marshall – Bass I got this album when I was a kid. I was just getting into Rock music and came across the John Miles album, ‘Stranger In The City’ in the ‘cheapies’ bin (where the reduced/sale items were sold) so it was cheap at a time when money was short and records very…

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…