Jack Bruce – Bass What often gets me about some of these tunes is how short they are. I guess, being a Jazz and Prog Rock fan, I am used to tracks being 8 minutes minimum if not 15 – 20. Some of the tunes on these old albums are barely over 2 minutes in…

Jack Bruce – Bass Jack Bruce’s first solo album, ‘Songs For A Tailor’ has some classic songs which have really stood the test of time; ‘Theme From An Imaginary Western’ and ‘Rope Ladder To The Moon’ but there is lost of other material on there that is still worth spending some time with. This is…

Geezer Butler – Bass I think it is actually possible that this was the first bass solo I ever learned (by ear; I couldn’t read the dots back then). I think I even bought a Cry Baby wah-pedal to get the right sound. Those were the days. Listening to it now, 45 years later, I…

Brian Bromberg – Bass I first heard Brian Bromberg on his debut solo LP (yes, I am that old), ‘A New Day’ and it was his electric playing that took me to it (I am guessing that I read about him in Bass Player Magazine or something). It was a few years later that I…

Brian Bromberg – Bass Bromberg was born on December 5, 1960, in Tucson, Arizona. His father and brother both played drums, which influenced him to take up the instrument, and at the age of 13 he began seriously pursuing a career as a drummer. Around this time, the leader of his school orchestra steered him…

Dave LaRue – Bass I just posted ‘4 Minutes To Live’ and I thought it was unfair on Dave LaRue to represent him as a root player so I just knocked out this slightly more ambitious performance, the tune ‘Glad To Be’ from the same 1996 Steve Morse album, ‘Stressfest’. Not so easy this time,…

Dave LaRue – Bass Dave LaRue is one of the those bass players that can do almost anything including Rock, Funk, two-handed stuff and aggressive slap and pop. On this track, however, he isn’t doing anything like that and is pretty much staying on the roots and fives. Another easy read for those who are…

Zev Katz – Bass Zev Katz is a New Yorker and a bass player of vast experience. He’s been playing bass with some of the world’s finest musicians for 32 years. His credits are a ‘Who’s who’ of the finest singers, songwriters and composers of the past thirty years. The list is impressive: Aretha Franklin,…

Rudolphe Kreutzer – Composer One from another old dead bloke. Kreutzer was a mate of Beethoven who dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 to him. Born 15 November 1766 and died 6 January 1831, Kreutzer as a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La Mort d’Abel (1810). I…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass Acoustic/ electric bassist and composer Hans Glawischnig grew up in Graz, Austria. His father, a pianist, leader of the free jazz group, The Neighbors, educator, and longtime chief conductor of the NDR big band in Hamburg, Germany, encouraged Hans to pursue a career in music. His American mother, having studied Art History,…