Bass Player: Jeff Berlin An odd little album that we always felt was less than the sum of its parts but the boss liked his track enough to want to transcribe it. This is the Jeff Berlin bass part for Unt from the Kazumi Watanabe album ‘The Spice Of Life’. Some nice lines in it…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another Jeff Berlin/Bruford classic – This is the FULL transcription of the tune. Bilbo ‘learned’ this when he was starting to get into Jazz and Fusion bass players (he thinks he must have been about 19?). Again, he admits that could not get the detail at that point and never really…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another diamond from the ‘Gradually Going Tornado’ album (all of Jeff’s bass parts from this album are now available on this website). These Jeff Berlin parts were so important to Bilbo when he was learning but all he could ever do was try to approximate and he couldn’t get hold of…

Bass Player: Mistre Bimba Some more Latin bass. The Band is Harmonia Do Samba and the track ‘Nega Do Balacobaco’ but we cannot find who the bass player is because all of the internet references to the band are in Portuguese! It’s a little bit of fun. Not a major problem reading wise due to…

Bass Player: Paul Socolow Paul Socolow is not a name that many have heard of outside of the US but he has an impressive CV that includes guitarist Leni Stern, flautist Herbe Mann and pianist Manfredo Fest. It is a track from the 1987 Fest CD ‘Braziliana’ that features in the transcription here. ‘Brazilian DOrian…

Bass Player: Ray Brown This is a full transcription of the arrangement of Mack The Knife by the Jimmy Guiffre 3. It is from an LP called ‘The Easy Way’ which is available as part of one of those 7 CD ‘classic albums’ sets. Bilbo has not included all the lines and solos but only…

Bass Player: George Duvivier Bilbo says that he transcribed this off a recording that was included in a 7 CD bexed set of Eric Dolphy but we have since learned that it was actually from an Oliver Nelson LP called ‘Screamin’ The Blues’. This is George Duvivier’s bass part inc. solo from the title track which is…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A great little rocker from the 1986 ‘Pump It” album, ‘All The Greats’ is a strange mix of rock ‘n’ roll and Jazz. The groove is a kind of rock/funk hybrid but the harmony is much more sophisticated than you woudl expect from either of these genres. The tune is dedicated…

Bass Player: Steve Dawson Bilbo made his first forays into the music business with NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) band ‘No Quarter’ (see Bits and Bobs page). At this point in ‘metal’ bass history, the staple groove was straight eighths root not playing. Drummer and guitarists loved it; bass player hated it. Saxon’s…

Bass Player: Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez Valdes Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga (improvised jam sessions).[2] Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles…