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. This was bound to result in young Andrews falling in love with the new music of the 1970, which was later dubbed fusion. Between 1976 and 1978, he attended the…

Bass Player: Jimmy ‘Flim’ Johnson Jimmy Johnson (born 1956) is an American bass guitarist best known for his work with James Taylor, Allan Holdsworth, and Flim and The BBs. Raised in a rich musical environment, his father was a 47-year member of the Minnesota Orchestra’s bass section, his mother a piano teacher and accompanist, and his…

Bass Player: Walter Becker The Fagan/Becker partnership was the brains, heart and soul behind the band Steeley Dan who, despite their legendary status, recorded just 9 albums between 1972 and 2003. The two men did, however, work on other projects together including Fagan’s second solo album, the Grammy nominated ‘Kamakiriad’ (Japanese for ‘praying mantis’). On…

Bass Player: Vincente Archer Archer began in self-taught guitar for 16 years and studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA with Gene Bertfocinio, Jerry Bergonzi and Danilo Perez. Archer left for a year to study the bass guitar at Northeastern University. Soon he was discovered by Donald Harrison and Eric Reed and taken on tour.…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin The complete set of transcriptions of Jeff Berlin’s bass parts on the 1979 Bruford album, ‘One Of A Kind’. Presented in the order in which they appear on the original album, you can now rip through the whole thing without having to reload a new pdf for each track.

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A final transcription of the complete Jeff Berlin bass part for the tune ‘Forever Until Sunday’ from the Bruford album, ‘One Of A Kind’. One of a Kind is the second solo album by the drummer Bill Bruford and the first proper album by his band, Bruford. Released in 1979 on EG…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin The attached transcription features the Jeff Berlin bass parts to the whole of the 1980 Bruford album, ‘Gradually Going Tornado’.

Bass Player: Tony Reeves The entire set of bass charts for the 1973 Greenslade album, ‘Bedside Manners Are Extra’. You can now play along with the entire album without any problems.

Bass Player: Tony Reeves A final track from the 1973 Greenslade album, ‘Bedside Manners Are Extra’, featuring the bass playing of Tony Reeves. As well as gracing most of the Greenslade albums and keyboard player Dave Greenslade’s later solo recordings, Reeves had performed with an array of UK recording artists. As a teenager Reeves learned…

Bass Player: Jeff Andrews Another track from the 1989 Mike Stern album, ‘Time In Place’, this is a complete Jeff Andrews bass performance of the tune ‘Before You Go’. An easy read but a beautiful piece. Jeff’s biographical details can be found on other transcriptions from the same album e.g. Gossip and Chromozone.