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 the levels of rhythmic repetition. Great intro and outro that may need a bit more focus. For fun, we have also attached a version Bilhis did on my home studio with a couple of friends on vocals, percussion and saxophone. It is Bilbo me on bass, guitar, drum machine and backing vocals. He did this long before he transcribed the bass part as a ‘production’ exercise (and, yes, that is him with the hat).

Mestre Bimba was the bass player, according to our Brazilian chum (the singer on Bilbo’s version)