Bob Hurst – Bass Robert L. Hurst III (born October 4, 1964) is an American jazz bassist and educator. Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He performed with the jazz group Out of the Blue in 1985 and also did work with musicians including Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Geri Allen, Russell Malone, and Steve Coleman. From 1986 to 1991, Hurst…

Dennis Irwin – Bass Irwin attended North Texas State University with Norman Wisdom, studying classical music. Although he started out playing alto sax and clarinet (achieving first chair All State clarinet while at Westchester High School in Houston) he soon switched to the bass and joined the university’s band. After working with pianist |Red Garland…

Phil Bowler – Bass Bowler, Phil, bass. b. 2 March 1948. He received a Baccalureate degree in double bass from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut. He started studying the Violin at age 13, then some weeks later went to study the Cello. A couple of months later, when he was tall enough,…

Renaud Garcia-Fons – Bass Garcia-Fons has a reputation for incredibly sophisticated bow techniques that utilise specific sounds that are not often heard in double bass playing and his use of the 5-string means he has a higher range than most bass players. Despite this reputation, he does write some pretty tunes, folkish in tone rather…

John Gustafson – Bass John Frederick “Johnny” Gustafson (8 August 1942 – 12 September 2014) was an English bass guitar player and singer, who had a lengthy recording and live performance career. During his career, he was a member of the bands The Big Three, The Merseybeats, Quatermass, Roxy Music, The Pirates and Ian Gillan Band. Gustafson was another early convert to Wal basses…

Willie Weeks – Bass Weeks was born in Salemburg, North Carolina, and began playing the electric bass in the early 1960s. His earliest influences were the country, pop and R&B music he heard on the radio. Weeks counts bassists Ron Carter, James Jamerson, and Ray Brown as early influences. Weeks has worked in the studio or toured with a wide range of artists, including Gregg Allman, David Bowie, Jimmy Buffett, Kevin Chalfant, Eric Clapton, Hank Crawford, Bo…

John Perry – Bass The man who ‘invented/ the Wal bass (reportedly, Ian Waller, a friend of Perry’s, built the first Wal bass to his specifications). John G. Perry is an American-born British bass player and singer. He was born in the U.S. to British parents and moved back to the UK when he was young. In…

Rob Palmer – Bass Something a bit different today. I was playing through a transcription the other day (not one of mine) and recognised that I was not ‘hearing’ triplets naturally when the third of the three notes was not played within the line. So, in the spirit of 400 years of music tradition, I…

Phil Kuehn – Bass Philip Kuehn is an accomplished bassist, arranger, composer, audio producer, and educator whose career spans over two decades across the concert stage, recording studio, and classroom. He has performed with world-renowned artistsincluding Quincy Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Harry Connick Jr., Take 6, Branford Marsalis, Cyrille Aimée, Anthony Hamilton, Roy Hargrove,…

Geddy Lee – Bass I waver but I often think that ‘Permanent Waves’ is my favourite Rush album but I think this may be as much nostalgia as objective truth. I bought this piece of vinyl the day it come out in 1980 and still love every second of it. This track ‘Natural Science’ is…