Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Title track from the Bruford LP ‘Feels Good To Me’. This was Bruford’s first solo LP and, alongside Bruford and Berlin, the recording features guitarist Allan Holdsworth, keyboard player Dave Stewart (egg, National Health, Hatfield & The North), trumpet/flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler and singer Annette Peacock. This track is about as…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin ‘Either End Of August’ from the Bruford album ‘Feels Good To Me’. An exquisite ballad in 5:4 marked by a lovely fretless melody (is it fretless; we all know Jeff doesn’t do fretless but he doesn’t do slapping either and we all love ‘5G’), Dave Stewart’s delicate synth and Kenny Wheeler’s…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another tune from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London’ CD/DVD. The tune is called ‘Voice In My Head’. Regrettably, the Live In London version is not available on YouTube. This is a live version.

Bass Player: Geddy Lee One of the most famous tunes from the Rush canon, ‘YYZ’ appeared on the classic Rush album ‘Moving Pictures’. An instrumental, the tune presents some fairly intense moments from all three musicians but when Lee’s bass is featured in brief, one bar breaks, we see a little bit of bass heaven.…

Bass Player: Not known As with a lot of ‘pop’ music, it is not always obviouso who the players are as the information is not always provided. When most of the work by an artist is presented in a foreign language, it is even harder to find the information. BIlbo transcribed this part off an…

Bass Player: Ronaldo Saggiorato Bassist, composer and arranger Ronaldo Saggiorato was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. With a solid career, respected inside and outside Brazil (he lived between Brazil and Europe more than ten years), he participated in projects and recordings alongside the likes of Renato Borguetti, Alegre Corrêa, Vitor Ramil, Mohamed mounir, Sandra…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow Another Swallow transcription, this one from the CD ‘Damaged In Transit’ which features the imaginatively titledtunes ‘Damaged In Transit’ 1 through 9. Transcribed as a most basic reading exercise, the chart is made up almost entirely of minims but, nevertheless, alongside Chris Potter’s saxophone, provides a beautiflu Back like quality. Regrettably,…

Bass Player: Richard Bona Cameroon bassist, multi-intrumentalist, singer, composer and all round genius has been called the ‘African Jaco’ and deservedly so. His talents have seen him sharing the stage and studio with Joe Zawinul, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Kazumi Watanabe and a host of others. His own recordings are more than just bass excess…

Bass Player: Paul Chambers Paul Chambers had a relatively brief career by the standards of his peers and was only effectively operational between 1955 and his death in January 1969. Despite this, he appeared on something in the region of 300 albums by everyone from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Herbie Hancock,…

Bass Player: Jeff Andrews Jeff Andrews grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where he was exposed to rock and jazz musicians in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Between 1976 and 1978, he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, from where he moved to the Berklee College of Music but left in 1980 because he was not…