Recent content by MolluskGoneBad

Ed, I have a couple of questions about the chord line. When you say it needs to stay in proximity, you mean each arpeggio should stay in proximity to where the previous STARTED, not to where it landed, correct? Assuming that's true, a lot of my important chords end up in third inversions...

Mosaic just released a boxed set of Henry Threadgill's work on Novus and Columbia. There's a LOT of fantastic Fred Hopkins playing on there, including 3 Air albums, an album and a half by X-75 (an ensemble with 4 basses) and 3 Sextett albums. Sound is fantastic, especially on the 3 Air...

Ha ha ha, as I wrote that up I had a feeling that was the best, and probably the only real answer.

What would be the best way to learn to play bass behind a soloist who plays like someone like Ornette. I've read plenty of material from Paul Bley and Charlie Haden about what they're *not* doing, and some abstractions about trying to hear where the soloist is going and precede them there...

I only just discovered the Khan Jamal album this track is from, which has really great playing from Johnny Dyani:

Sorry to derail, but I saw the thread title and immediately thought of this as the actual "right way to paint a bass"

Sorry, I'd trimmed that down from a much longer post and it got a little muddy with some pronoun trouble. I wasn't in any way trying to imply that an unrelated day job was any kind of betrayal either, just that a working bassist shouldn't be assumed to be any more artistically compromised by...

Don't forget that not only did Trane do plenty of stints walking the bar (which he admittedly hated), but he learned from the experience and incorporated the sounds of the act into his art. Stories are legion about how the giants of the art form learned a hell of a lot playing dance halls...

You could try the Kind of Blue version of Blue in Green vs. the one on Portrait in jazz. You've got them playing the same tune with the same pianist. More importantly, it's roughly the same time period (8 month lag), though admittedly the tune was new at the KoB sessions and Paul Chambers had...

This is terrible news. R.I.P.

Wow, thanks for this. It's been a long time since I looked him up on youtube. This is fantastic.

All of Johnny Dyani's Steeplechase recordings are well worth tracking down, as well as the albums he did with David Murray and Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra. There's something really special in his playing, I'm not sure how to describe it exactly, something in the sense of time and...

I feel a bit chagrined by this; I definitely use "see" and "show" regularly. Thinking about it, I was initially thinking maybe I picked it up from my peers who have talked about live music (mostly rock bands) in those terms for years. However, I do think that "saw" implies "in person" in a...

Salty, what were you recommending from "The Shape of Jazz To Come?"

I saw him a few weeks ago. He was playing with Bob Cranshaw, Bobby Broom on guitar, Kobie Watkins on drums, and Victor See-Yuen on percussion. I didn't know either of the two latter beforeand, but it was a great show. If I remember correctly, Bob Cranshaw suffered a back injury years ago...