Best Bass Oriented Album

[jnevi9nr]

Im talking about albums like Tal's Transformation or Victor's albums. Not RHCP, Rush or Yes. What album is the best bass oriented one?

[faulknersj]

Experanza Spalding is an incredible bass player, vocalist, and songwriter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9Yvf3x41w

That is a really tough question as the bass is found in a supporting role 99% of the time. I would think that Jaco Pastorious 'Jaco Pastorious' would be in the conversation. I am looking froward to getting turned on to some new stuff thru this thread! Great thread man!

[jnevi9nr]

stuff like:
Victor Wooten - A Show Of Hands
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Marcus Miller - The Sun Don't Lie
Stanley Clarke - Stanley Clarke
Stu Hamm - Kings Of Sleep

[lyency]

There is no such thing as best... But there is a very good radio station in Memphis, the FM 91.7 Jazz, I guess it is on the internet. In addition, here is a few of my bass CDs that I like to listen:

Victor Wooten - Palmystery
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Stanley Clarke - The Stanley Clark Band
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Uhm
Jack Bruce - Live in America
John Entwistle - Too Late to Hero
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
The Essential Jaco Pastorius
Joshua Redman Elastic Band - Momentum

[theNoseBleedKid]

Jean Baudin - Transcendence

[jnevi9nr]

im checking out that marcus miller cd now.

[Greevus]

That Vic Wooten/Steve Bailey project is mind-boggling for bass. Can't think of the name.

[burk48237]

Adam Nitti's Liminal certainly sticks out in my mind right up there with Tal's as the best of the newer stuff.

[Rich L]

Here's just a sampling of the bass oriented music on my iPod:
Adam Nitti - Balance
Alberto Rigoni - Something Different
Alex Machacek, Jeff Sipe, Matthew Garrison - Improvision
Altered - Angular (John Flitcraft)
Attention Deficit - Idiot King (Michael Manring)
Avishai Cohen - As Is...Live at the Blue Note
Billy Sheehan & Terry Bozzio - Nine Short Films
Brian Bromberg - Brian Bromberg
Bryan Beller - Thanks In Advance
Chris Buck - Progasaurus
Colin Edwin - Third Vessel
Damian Erskine - To Speak
Dave LaRue - Hub City Kid
David Hines - Nebula
David Torn, Mick Karn & Terry Bozzio - Polytown
Dean Peer - Ucross
Dennis Chambers & Bireli Lagrene & Dominique Di Piazza - Front Page
Derek Frank - Let The Games Begin
Devil's Slingshot - Clinophobia (Billy Sheehan)
Doug Johns - Pocket Fulla Nasty
Dominique Di Piazza - Princess Sita
Gambale, Hamm & Smith - The Light Beyond (Stu Hamm)
Freak Zoid - Freak Zoid (Percy Jones)
Gary Willis - Bent
Hadrien Feraud - Hadrien Feraud
Jean Baudin - Solace
Jeff Schmidt - Outre
Jon Reshard - Jon Reshard
Jonas Hellborg - any and all of his stuff!
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (Tony Levin)
Marcu Miller - Tales
Mark Egan - Truth Be Told
Matthew Garrison - Shapeshifter
McGill, Manring, Stevens - Addition By Subtraction (Michael Manring)
MCM - Hard Times (Randy Coven)
Michael Manring - Thonk
Mojo - Tapestry (Ric Fierabracci)
Niacin - High Bias (Billy Sheehan)
Norm Stockton - Pondering The Sushi
OHM: - Amino Acid Flashback (Roberto Pagliari)
Peter Muller - The Flow
Philip Bynoe - A Member of the Population
Powernut - 3 Nuts in a Pocket (Vail Johnson)
Randy Coven - Funk Me Tender
Ray Riendeau - Atmospheres
Roberto Badoglio - Re-Evaluation Time
Sean Malone - Cortlandt
Seth Horan - Conduit
Steve Bailey - So Low....solo
Steve Lawson - Grace and Gratitude
Stretch - Stretch (Dave LaRue)
Stuart Hamm - Radio Free Albemuth
Tal Wilkenfeld - Transformation
Bozzio, Levin, Stevens - Situation Dangerous (Tony Levin)
Tony Grey - Chasing Shadows
A Triggering Myth - The Remedy of Abstraction (Michael Manring)
Trip Wamsley - Curve
Tunnels - Progessivity (Percy Jones)
Uncle Moe's Space Ranch - Moe's Town (Gary Willis)
Vail Johnson - Underground
Victor Wooten - Soul Circus
Yiorgos Fakanas - Domino
Yves Carbonne - Seven Waves

Not all are solo bass albums, but all are very bass prominent!

[jnevi9nr]

thanks rich. I just downloaded Colin Edwin - Third Vessel!

[Mayers]

Any John Patitucci solo CD are really great. He is more than a bass player, he is a song writer from african music to bebop to classical music.

[Bijoux]

also Victor Bailey albums are great, and Gary Willis too of course!

[Volume4]

OM-Conference Of The Birds is a bass masterpiece imho.

Its just Al Cisneros on bass with a drummer.... it's "bass oriented" for sure and sounds nothing like Rush, Yes or RHCP


It's not for everybody of course... but I would think most bassists would enjoy or at least intrigued by listening to it once.

http://stonerobixxx.blogspot.com/200...irds-2006.html

[BassBrass]

Bill Lazwell, Basslines

Mick Carn, Titles

Jaco:
Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life
Joni Mitchell, Hyjera (sp?)

John Paul Jones (& Diamanda Galas) The Sporting Life

Hugo Largo, Drum

Live Cream vol II (sorry. maybe this is like your "not" list?)

[jmac]

Some great albums mentioned already. I didn't see anyone mention Doug Johns. He has two albums out. While both are great, right now, I prefer the first one (self titled).

Edit: Oops, I now see that Rick L did mention Doug, but only the second album. Check them both out. Plenty of groove and technique.

[strozey]

since you didn't list Primus in with RHCP, Rush and Yes.... I'm going to say Primus

[Largedon]

Originally Posted by jmac

Some great albums mentioned already. I didn't see anyone mention Doug Johns. He has two albums out. While both are great, right now, I prefer the first one (self titled).

I picked up his self-titled album about a month ago and was just blown away.

[raymondl3]

Gary Willis
No Sweat, Bent, and Actual Fiction

[nealw]

The Who-Live at Leeds is pretty good.

[dalkowski]

Originally Posted by BassBrass

Hugo Largo, Drum

Wow -- That's one LP I haven't played in, what, 2 decades? Great choice -- I should dust it off.

Also, anything by Dos or Jeff Berlin