Bass Player: John Mole Another tune from the 1978 Gary Moore album, ‘Back On The Streets’. Prior to his untimely death, Moore was generally best known for his solo work in the Rock and Blues fields and for his stint with Irish Rockers Thin Lizzy. Moore did, however, have a brief career as a Jazz-Rock…

Bass Player: John Mole Mole was born in Stratford, London. A member of Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum II, he went on to work with fellow band members Gary Moore and Don Airey. He also played with the UK jazz-funk band Morrissey-Mullen during the late 1970s, and as a session musician with artists such as Barbara Streisand…

Bass Player: Jairo Moreno From Moreno’s own website: Jairo Moreno is an Associate Professor of Music, Faculty Associate in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Programme and member of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, having previously taught at Duke and N.Y.U. Awards include the Society for American Music 2005 Irving…

Bass Player: Kyle Brock  Kyle Brock came from Abilene, TX to attend Southwest Texas State University and then St. Edwards University. He toured and wrote music for Eric Johnson Group from 1987 until 1995 and the attached video comes from a Johnson gig. It is a very brief (less than one minute) Country bass solo. Not…

Bass Player: Not applicable This is a transcription of the theme from the tune ‘Odissea Veneziana’ from the weird Pop/Classical hybrid act ‘Rondo Veneziano. Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section. The ensemble was led by Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A lesser known Jeff Berlin performance, this is the bass part to the tune ‘Foxy Morons’ from the 2005 album by an all-star group including Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski and T. Lavitz. The transcription is the ‘bass’ part and does not include Jeff’s distorted bass solo that precedes the…

Bass Player : Jeff Andrews Another great Mike Stern tune and another great Jeff Andrews performance, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Chromazone’ from the 1988 Stern album, ‘Time In Place’. A monster bass part, heavily syncopated but mostly written (there are a couple of fills). Jeff Andrews was a major player in…

Bass Player: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen   This transcription is only a head chart of a tune called ‘I’ve Got Another Rhythm’. Written by trumpet player Allan Botchinsky, the tune was features on a 1992 duo album he did with double bassist Neils Henning Ørsted Pedersen called ‘Duologue’. The tune is a contrafact and is based…

Bass Player: Joe Mondragon Joe Mondragon (February 2, 1920 – July 1987) was self taught on the bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the Army during WWII and then joined Woddy Herman’s First Herd in 1946. Over the next two decades, he became one of the more popular studio bassists for…

Bass Player: Rob Amster Who the hell is Rob Amster? Not a household name, even amongst bass players but Amster played with some real heavyweights in his time including Buddy Rich, Pepper Adams, Maynard Ferguson, Fareed Haque and Kurt Elling. It is with Elling that Amster recorded this most engaging vocal/bass duet, ‘The Waking’, from…