John Patitucci – Bass I don’t do nearly enough John Patitucci transcriptions. I first heard him when he appeared on the first Chick Corea Elektric Band – would you believe it was ‘Got A Match’ which I heard on the radio (BBC Radio 2 – Jazz Today with Charles Fox – a great programme which…

Anthony Jackson – Contrabasse Guitar I tried… I failed. I got about 50 bars in but it got to intense to write any more down – too much bubbling below the E string and it would have taken the rest of my rapidly shortening life to get the whole thing down so I thought I…

Anthony Jackson – Contrabasse Guitar AJ – he’s the man! Totally original, totally inspired and totally awesome. I have only come the Hiromi Trio Project recently. As an out and out jazzer, I find some of Hiromi’s stuff a but twee, more Prog-Rock than Jazz, but some of it is undoubtedly brilliant and I have…

Anthony Jackson – Bass I have been spending a little time with my seven-string bass lately and trying to get my head around reading on an extended range bass. Where else would you go but to Anthony Jackson. I have not got into the Hiromi trio much because, whilst I find some of her stuff…

Anthony Jackson – Bass It is surprising when you do a transcription of something like this that, despite the relative simplicity of the arrangement, you can still hear Jackson’s personality all over the place. His sixteenth note licks, his volume swells, his choices in terms of where he plays a note on the bass, the…

Felix Pappalardi – Bass Felix Albert Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song “Mississippi Queen” peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a classic rock radio staple. Originating…

Mo Foster – Bass Michael Ralph “Mo” Foster (22 December 1944 – 3 July 2023) was an English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker. Through a career spanning over half a century, Foster toured, recorded, and performed with dozens of artists, including Jeff beck, Gil Evans, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Joan Armatrading, Gerry Raffertyt,…

Kai Eckhardt – Bass In the late 1980s, guitarist John McLaughlin put together a groundbreaking trio with percussionist Trilok Gurtu and a series of bass players, Jeff Berlin, Kai Eckhardt and Dominique Di Piazza. The first line-up, with Jeff Berlin on bass, never made it onto tape (although I believe there are bootlegs around) but…

Wally Lowe – Bass Last in the Clarkin series (well, maybe).

Wally Lowe – Bass I have to admit this one was a challenge. It is not the playing that is challenging but the mix. I sometimes found it difficult to hear the bass as the mix is very dense. There are passages where I had to guess the notes based on the chord movement and…