Bass Player: Not known As with a lot of ‘pop’ music, it is not always obviouso who the players are as the information is not always provided. When most of the work by an artist is presented in a foreign language, it is even harder to find the information. BIlbo transcribed this part off an…

Bass Player: Ronaldo Saggiorato Bassist, composer and arranger Ronaldo Saggiorato was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. With a solid career, respected inside and outside Brazil (he lived between Brazil and Europe more than ten years), he participated in projects and recordings alongside the likes of Renato Borguetti, Alegre Corrêa, Vitor Ramil, Mohamed mounir, Sandra…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow Another Swallow transcription, this one from the CD ‘Damaged In Transit’ which features the imaginatively titledtunes ‘Damaged In Transit’ 1 through 9. Transcribed as a most basic reading exercise, the chart is made up almost entirely of minims but, nevertheless, alongside Chris Potter’s saxophone, provides a beautiflu Back like quality. Regrettably,…

Bass Player: Richard Bona Cameroon bassist, multi-intrumentalist, singer, composer and all round genius has been called the ‘African Jaco’ and deservedly so. His talents have seen him sharing the stage and studio with Joe Zawinul, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Kazumi Watanabe and a host of others. His own recordings are more than just bass excess…

Bass Player: Paul Chambers Paul Chambers had a relatively brief career by the standards of his peers and was only effectively operational between 1955 and his death in January 1969. Despite this, he appeared on something in the region of 300 albums by everyone from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Herbie Hancock,…

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. Between 1976 and 1978, he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, from where he moved to the Berklee College of Music but left in 1980 because he was not…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Geddy Lee is the singer, bass and keyboard player for Canadian rock band Rush. For over 40 years, this trio have written and recorded some of the most exciting Rock music ever captured and, alongside guitarist Alex Lifeson and the late drummer lyricist Neil Peart, Lee has been on of the…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another Jon Poole bass part from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London’ CD/DVD. This one is the Progtastic ‘At The End Of The World’. 8 minutes long, the transcription is the full bass part from Jon Poole. The attached video is not the same version as the one on the official live…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another one from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London’ CD/DVD. Bilbo heard the band at the Winter’s End Festival in Chepstow in 2019 and again when recording with Chepstow based Prog band Multi Story (he appears on one track on their forthcoming ‘CBF10’ CD. This is Jon Poole’s bass part for ‘Open…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another one from the UK Prog scene and another from Jon Poole and the band Lifesigns. The track is ‘Impossible’ whereas the bass line isn’t. Is Prog Pop a thing? At time of posting, the tune is doing the rounds as a single and is featuring regularly on a number of…