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09-21-2009, 01:53 AM
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Hi there!
I just want you to help me with those.
I'm really curious about P-Bass sound in music genre called Jazz 
The only ones I know are Chris Wood (Medeski Martin And Wood) and Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group).
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09-21-2009, 03:49 AM
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09-21-2009, 04:12 AM
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09-21-2009, 04:44 AM
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Ray Brown played Jazz on a sunburst Fender P-bass every day on the old Merv Griffin Show.
Ron Carter played some P-bass whenever he played electric ("Stuff" from Miles In The Sky). Was it Carter playing EB on some of those Freddie Hubbard (Red Clay)& Stanley Turrentine (Sugar)albums?
Richard Davis, too (check out "Ahunk Ahunk" from Consummation by Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big band).
Dave Holland sometimes plays a some variation of a P-bass...
Mark Egan (Pat Metheny Group) & Randy Tico (of Matrix) played modified P-basses (w/ a bridge PUP added).
What was Bob Cranshaw playing back on the those old Blue Note albums?
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09-21-2009, 05:22 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | The classic P-bass on Jazz, is the piano solo in Chameleon from Headhunters - one of the great recorded Jazz moments - the bass sound that takes over from the synth bass ostinato is one the best sounds from electric bass ever and is very Jazzy as well as funky!
I've heard many Jazz pianists say they love that part...!
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09-21-2009, 05:30 AM
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09-21-2009, 06:12 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sucka  Hi there!
I just want you to help me with those.
I'm really curious about P-Bass sound in music genre called Jazz
The only ones I know are Chris Wood (Medeski Martin And Wood) ... | Quote:
Originally Posted by line6bassist Ever heard of Chris Wood? |
The answer is there in the 1st post!! 
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09-21-2009, 06:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: san antonio/austin | | yup! your right.....sorry my bad  |
09-21-2009, 12:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Southern California | | | Dave Holland played a Fender Precision with Miles Davis for a few years. |
09-21-2009, 01:05 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Janek Gwizdala bounces back and forth between a Fodera and a Precision.
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09-21-2009, 01:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Perth, WA, Australia | | | C'mon guys; Monk Montgomery - possibly the first significant Electric Bassist in Jazz.
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09-21-2009, 01:16 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I thought Monk used a Jazz.
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09-21-2009, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | So it much tougher to play jazz with a P-bass? Why? It's all in the fingers and brain. |
09-21-2009, 01:21 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | It's not at all tough to play jazz on a Precision.
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09-21-2009, 09:05 PM
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09-22-2009, 03:01 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ksandvik So it much tougher to play jazz with a P-bass? Why? It's all in the fingers and brain. | I think the OP is perpetuating the fallacy that the Fender Jazz bass is somehow supposed to be used for Jazz music!
Whereas we all know that it was just a word that was used to differentiate it and "Jazz" was a kind of buzzword at the time for cool and special - you could Jazz up your car or anything you liked - but it had nothing to do with Jazz music! 
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09-22-2009, 04:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Cookeville, TN | | Listen to Bob lay it down on this...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LauqYTSDJL4
Awesome walking study on a pbass right there!
Personally, Cannonball is my favorite sax player of all time. Bird always had this melancholy thing going on..... but with Cannonball, you can hear the joy in his stuff.... wonderful!
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09-22-2009, 04:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Emden, Germany | | Yep, Monk Montgomery played a P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Montgomery
I read somewhere that his bandleader Lionel Hampton liked the bass and handed it to him with the words "play it or you're fired!"  |
09-22-2009, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield I think the OP is perpetuating the fallacy that the Fender Jazz bass is somehow supposed to be used for Jazz music!
Whereas we all know that it was just a word that was used to differentiate it and "Jazz" was a kind of buzzword at the time for cool and special - you could Jazz up your car or anything you liked - but it had nothing to do with Jazz music! | That's funny...because back in the day, I noticed a lot of Jazz guys' EB choice was a P-bass. I used to lose sleep pondering why they weren't using Jazz basses...
My conclusion? A P-bass was "simpler"...1 pickup, 1 volume knob, fatter neck, & less expensive. If I was a doubler that wasn't too fond of the Fender bass...I would also opt for the cheaper model.
And I recall reading somewhere back then that the Jazz was actually designed with the guitarist in mind...blahblah.
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09-22-2009, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ingo62 | Early on...because P-basses were pretty much it in 1951.
Eventually, he played a Jazz pretty much 100%. http://ponytone.com/Images/MonkMontgomery.jpg http://wjmorephotography.com/root/wj...gomery-002.jpg
On a tangent-
There's a couple of Monk Mongomery tunes on the The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 9: 1969. Check iTunes to hear 'em.
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