Recent content by BassBluesNRoots

Value? well that depends on your perspective, I'm an ardent 'jazz' but i have a very diverse taste in music which believe can teach you a lot about music and more specifically, give you different ideas to approach playing the bass. For example, checking out stuff like Steely Dan gave me loads of...

Cannonball & Coltrane - 'Grand Central' cannonballs solo is killer Chet Baker - Chet album 'It Never Entered My Mind' Wayne Shorter - JuJu - Yes Or No, absolutely love the head on this tune

Yeah that's what I thought as well Chicago, Israel is incredible on the Ahmad Jamal records, glad you liked it Silevesq, gives me something else to keep working towards!

I don't know if anyones seen this video but it completely blew me away, as if his uptempo walking isn't enough to be impressed by, checkout his arco solo, incredible player.

The Inner Game Of Music - Barry Green and Timothy Gallwey

I definitely understand where you're coming from, I'm not really a fan of his technique to be honest, just my personal preference as Simandl and Bottesinis methods work for me better than Rabbaths, but I do love his playing style and have huge respect from him, very unique player, you hear The...

His upright playing is incredible.

I noticed this on amazon whilst looking for his art of the bow dvd, definitely going to purchase it.

Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Bill Stewart, Kenny Clarke, Paul Motian, Ed Thigpen, Joe Morello, Jeff 'Tain' Watts and many more

Hi everyone, thought this concert video might be of interest to the jazz players on here, the music is incredible as you'd expect and you get some great shots of Pierres right hand which has helped me find a good right hand position for walking on up tempo tunes, enjoy...

Hi Charling, that websites really useful and quite cheap as well, thanks so much for the tip

Ah ok gotcha, will do, thanks

Hi Roy, I've found it difficult to find much of rabbaths stuff here in the uk for some reason and if it is available, it's usually very expensive, thanks for the tip though, francois is incredible

Great replies thanks very much everyone, lot's to mull over before I purchase, thanks

Mmm been looking for Strokin' but they don't seem have it here in the UK unfortunately, also JPYeoh: Zing!