ALPHONSO JOHNSON: BASS PLAYER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD!!!!

bottomzone · #1 10-28-2010, 06:49 PM

I Just found out that Alphonso Johnson received the Bass Player Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010!!!!!! Congratulations, Alphonso-very well deserved!!!

A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

Dr. Cheese · #2 10-28-2010, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bottomzone

I Just found out that Alphonso Johnson received the Bass Player Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010!!!!!! Congratulations, Alphonso-very well deserved!!!

A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

No one deserves it more!

timmus · #3 10-28-2010, 07:35 PM

I met Alphonso once in an amp repair shop I was working in about 10 years ago...a true gentleman and truly one of the most unsung and under rated bassists around...much deserved accolades!

markjazzbassist · #4 10-28-2010, 08:25 PM

just picked up cobham/duke live in europe. love the playing on it by alphonso, one of the most underrated bassists out there. just killer groove and sense of harmony.

jerry · #5 10-29-2010, 04:27 AM

Long one of my favorite players, very cool!

timmus · #6 10-29-2010, 08:42 AM

The very first song I ever heard him play on was when I was a kid and listening to Weather Report's Mysterious Traveler (I think I was 15)...on that album was one of the "grooviest" songs I had ever heard and to this day, is still one that gets to me "right here"... that is the track "Cucumber Slumber". He was bassist and co-composer...if you've never heard it, give it a listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpcaKW3zVfs

Hoover · #7 10-29-2010, 08:46 AM

Well deserved, congrats to 'Zo!

Kinda amazing that it took BP until 2010 to recognize him...

Ablebasser · #8 11-04-2010, 06:54 AM

I think my favourite Weather Report albums are the ones that Alphonso played on. Really liked a lot of his solo stuff as well, for example Love's The Way I Feel ' Bout Cha, Stump and Involuntary Bliss. Does anybody know anything about the Fender he had with a natural body, jazz pick up in the neck position and P pick up in the bridge position? Looked very customised

midbass · #9 11-14-2010, 01:06 PM

Didn't Alphonso Johnson play on the Jeffrey Osbourne classic "stay with me tonight"?

bottomzone · #10 11-14-2010, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by midbass

Didn't Alphonso Johnson play on the Jeffrey Osbourne classic "stay with me tonight"?

Yes he did! Great playing on a great track.

A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

Hoover · #11 11-15-2010, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by midbass

Didn't Alphonso Johnson play on the Jeffrey Osbourne classic "stay with me tonight"?

Yep, and that's always one of the tracks I cite when someone asks me for an Alphonso recommendation. Because it's so not like his Weather Report or Cobham-Duke or solo album material...and yet he nails it like he was born to play it.