Mick Karn – Bass Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a British musician who rose to fame as the bassist for the Art Rock/New Wave band Japan. His distinctive fretless bass guitar sound sound and melodic playing style were a trademark of the band’s sound. The…

Charlie Haden – Bass Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playing in jazz, evolving a style that sometimes complemented the soloist, and other times moved independently, liberating bassists…

Ron Carter – Bass Ron Carter is probably one of the most recorded double bass players in the history of Jazz. The man who took over the chair in the Miles Davis Quartet after Paul Chambers left the band also went to school with Chambers but he told me himself that he didn’t have much…

Robin Phillips – Bass This one is incredibly easy to play although the reading is complicated slightly by the 5:4 time signature. The notes are all roots, no fills and no frills, and I believe there are only five of them on there whole chart, maybe six. It’s a pretty song nevertheless and a worthy…

Robin Phillips – Bass Another piece from the 2023 Solstice album, ‘Light Up’. This tune has some great lines in it and the whole composition hangs together beautifully with riffs crossing bars, odd bar lengths etc. Classic British Neo-Prog. The inscrutably entitled ‘Wongle No.9’.

Robin Phillips – Bass Robin is the son of Margaret Phillips, who played piano on Solstice’s first album, Silent Dance (1984) and occasionally joined the band onstage at the Marquee. He grew up surrounded by music and so it was destiny that he should join Clive Bunker to form the Solstice rhythm section that gigged…

Geddy Lee – Bass The 1984 album, ‘Grace Under Pressure’ was probably the popiest of the band’s recordings and it was great to see them recover some of the edge later in their collective career but, despite the commercial tinges surrounding ‘Signals’ and ‘Grace Under Pressure’ and ‘Power Windows’, there are some moments. ‘The Enemy…

Geddy Lee – Bass Another from the ‘Grace Under Pressure’ album, this is the complete bass part for the tune ‘Red Sector A’. A really easy read as it is all 8th note roots.

Jeff Berlin – Bass Not everything that everybody does always finds its way into the mainstream public arena and I found this recording on a relatively obscure website which contains a lot of stuff you wouldn’t hear about in the major U.K. and U.S. publications if you weren’t looking for it. Massimo Columbo is an…

Doug Stegmeyer – Bass Douglas Alan Stegmeyer (December 23, 1951 – August 25, 1995) was an American musician who was best known as a bassist and back-up vocalist for Billy Joel. Stegmeyer also performed as bassist for Debbie Gibson and Hall & Oates. Life and career Stegmeyer was born on December 23, 1951, in Flushing, Queens, New York…