Recent content by jtclark

I suppose the "straight ahead" is the thing, to me that implies pre-fusion jazz which was done on upright, and has that classic acoustic sound that is difficult to emulate entirely on an electric bass. The more modern neo-Wynton-whatever jazz was sort of a return to the basic swing and sound of...

I got into jazz because of playing bass, so I went out and bought stanley clarke first because his last name was clark like mine, and because he looked cool with his white jacket, shirt unbuttoned, smoking a little cigar and bass necklace on that "I wanna play for you" albumn, thought that was...