Mike Rutherford – Bass I came to Genesis a long time after this recording was released so I didn’t hear it ‘fresh out of the box’ but, as much as I liked the band, I never really thought of Rutherford as a chopsy bass player like my then main squeeze, Chris Squire. As I matured…

Dave Holland – Bass Something from the 2001 Quintet album, ‘Not For Nothin”, another one of those Holland charts that alternates between two time signatures throughout the whole composition (in this case 4:4 and 5:4). There is one bar (bar 38) that I am hearing as 7 beats over 5 but I cannot make Sibelius…

Gary Willis – Bass The least photographed bass player in the business! But one of the cleanest players around. I always think of Gary Willis whenever I hear the latest crop of new player like Hadrien Feraud etc; that tight controlled funk that Willis was doing with Tribal Tech in the 1980s. Sturding his technique…

Palle Danielsson – Bass Nils Paul “Palle” Danielsson (15 October 1946 – 18 May 2024) was a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1974 to 1979, he was a member of Keith Jarrett’s quartet. Danielsson’s first instrument was the harmonica, which he started playing at the age of two. By age eight he was playing violin, which he continued…

Reginald Veal – Bass This one is a prelude to the tune ‘Uptown Ruler’ from the 1991 Marsalis album, ‘Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures In Southern Blue, Vol. 2’ (it repeats at the end of side 2 and ‘bookends the whole album although the one at the end sees the ostinato played an actave lower). The…

Louis Armstrong – Trumpet I first heard this song on the soundtrack top the 1993 Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks film, ‘Sleepless In Seattle’ and fell in love with it immediately. It never ceases to bring a smile to my face. It is not muso territory, just pure entertainment but the trumpet solo is something else. Pure…

Jorge Roeder – Bass I love this little album, Sofia Rei and Jorge Roeder’s ‘Coplas Escondidas’. I happened upon it on Bandcamp and have been enjoying it since. Roeder’s bass is sol well recorded (and played, of course). The tune here is ‘Prestados’ which is an Argentine Tango. I believe it is written by Sofia…

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – Bass The is a tune from a album that the great Danish bassist did with pianist Kenny Drew in 1973. I came across this CD (and the second companion CD) in a Charity shop yesterday and though this was lovely. The tune is called ‘ ‘ which Google Translate tells me…

Ron Carter – Bass Ron Carter is arguably one of the most recorded bass players in Jazz and has appeared with pretty much every major Jazz artist in the last 60 years or more. he actually went to school with Paul Chambers, the bass player he replaced in the Miles Davis Quintet although the two…

Christian McBride – Bass A simple performance on the melody of the tune “Where Are You?“, a popular song composed by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. The song was written for the 1937 film ‘Top Of The Town’ but has become a Jazz standard that has been recorded by everyone. It is simple enough and…