Bass Player: Robert Hurst III Robert Hurst was born on October 4, 1964. Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He worked with Out Of The Blue in 1985 and also did work with drummer Tony Williams, pianist Mulgrew Miller and Geri Allen, guitarist Russell Malone, singer Harry Connick Junior and saxophonist…

Bass Player: Gerald Cannon Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Gerald’s initial inspiration was his father Benjamin, a guitarist, who bought him his first electric bass at the ripe young age of 10. He began playing bass in his father’s group ‘The Gospel Expressions’ and he never looked back. Gerald attended The University of Wisconsin at La Crosse…

Bass Player: Lincoln Goines The bass parts to Mike Stern tunes are great to transcribe because they tend to be concise and accurately performed without a massive amount of nuanced improvisation. Stern’s compositions quite often hinge of repetitive riffs that allow for that ‘call and response’ thing that he likes to solo over; written riff…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Back to the 1975 Rush album, ‘Fly By Night’ and the Alex Lifeson penned tune ‘Beneath, Between and Behind’. Some solid playing (and a great bass tone’ from the bass of Geddy Lee. A nice tight little line wonderfully executed by Canada’s finest and a great introduction to ‘the new guy’,…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Another monster bass part from the king of the big six, Anthony Jackson. Jackson was the first call player for guitarist Al Di Meola for many years and it is likely that this was because Jackson was one of the few players in the World who could execute the unison lines…

Bass Player: Terry ‘Thunderbags’ Pack In 1979, at the height of the Punk movement in the United Kingdom, a group of unreconstructed hippies decided to launch a kind of Classical/Progressive Rock hybrid using modern Rock instruments to create instrumental music that was very Classical in feel but fully orchestrated in a way that was not…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee The 1975 Rush album, ‘Fly By Night’ was the record that introduced the legendary Neil Peart to the world, thus providing several generations of Rock drummers to their main influence. Not only did Peart bring his prodigious chops to the drum stool in the Canadian trio, he also provided a new…

Bass Player: Paul McCartney Nearly two years into the Bilbo’s Bass Bites project and this is the first Paul McCartney chart. Appalling oversight. McCartney is an up and coming young bass player from Liverpool, Lancashire. He hasn’t much in the way of chops and probably won’t amount to much but we do like to encour0age…

Bass Player: Morten Strypet MEER started out as a duo in Hamar, Norway in 2008, and since then the duo has expanded considerably to become what it is today – an eight-piece eclectic collective whose music is a mix of orchestral pop, classical music and progressive rock. With their grandiose string arrangements and polyphonic vocals,…

Bass Player: Alain Caron Canada knows how to breed bassists. The youngest of 11 children, Caron started playing bass at age 11 and began pursuing Jazz at age 15. His musical skills were formalised by correspondence lessons with the jazz improvisation teacher Charlie Banacos, who also taught Jeff Berlin and Mike Stern, and by attending…