Rev. Andrew Brown – Bass Yes, Andrew really is a Reverend. It’s not just a nickname. More to the point, he was, for many years, the first call bass player with Suffolk’s Chris Ingham and the band he led with saxophonist Kevin Flanagan. Chris used Andy on bass for his Quartet’s 2016 tribute to pianist…

Marc Johnson – Bass Another track from what was, for me, a really important album. It introduced me to pianist Kenny Werner and drummer Bill Stewart as well as reminding me what Marc Johnson and John Abercrombie were capable of (Abercrombie is great on this record, edgier than he often was in his own bands).…

Charles Mingus – Bass These older tunes sometimes present a problem for me in so far as they are often recorded in mono and, consequently, Moises has trouble isolating this bass. This is not a problem generally but there are sometimes passages where the bass in hard to pick out in the mix and you…

Marc Johnson – Bass One of my ‘Mount Rushmore’ players, Marc Johnson first came to the attention of the Jazz universe through his work with the late pianist Bill Evans who he toured and recorded with for the last two years of his career (Evans passed away in 1980). He then worked with a comprehensive…

Jimmy Woode – Bass Woode was born September 23, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who had played with Hot Lips Page. The younger Woode studied piano and bass in Boston at Boston University and at the Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Philadelphia Academy. He joined…

Jack Bruce – Bass Jack Bruce was one of those superb musicians who, whilst known primarily as a bass player and singer, could play a whole catalogue of instruments and had skills as an original arranger and composer that allowed him to move in any number of directions. His reputation also afforded him numerous opportunities…

Juanjo Puertas – Bass Someone asked for a transcription of this – it’s a YouTube video. I have absolutely no idea who it is, what it is or where it is. I don’t even know when it is. It’s just me ‘passing it on’.

Mick Hutton – Bass Classically trained on the piano, Hutton taught himself to play the bass, developing his own technique using three basic positions with the left hand coupled with three fingers on the right hand. He has been well known on the British jazz scene since 1980 and has toured extensively in Europe, Scandinavia,…

Reginald Veal – Bass Another cut from the 1993 masterpiece from the Wynton Marsalis Septet, ‘Citi Movement (Griot New York)’, this track always stood out to me but I hadn’t heard it for a while. As soon as I heard it again, I remembered the thrill of those first bass notes at the start of…

Will Lee – Bass Bob Mintzer’s Big Band charts are great for reading practice; they are clear, concise and have a internal logic that makes it relatively easy for the bass player who is reading the dots to put together a solid performance. This tune is the closing cut on the 2015 live album, ‘Get…