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Avant-Garde Bassists?

#21
joe vegas said:
ps check out phil lesh and ned lagin's 1974 "Seastones" collaboration album (cd)... there is nothing this side of stockhausen and xenakis to describe the intensity and lysergic transport of this electronic-music masterpiece. the very definition of avant garde.
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There are some great live versions of the Seastones material from '74 in the Archive. The Springfield show that I attended can be found here.

There are several old Dave Holland sides that are way outside. I especially like this one and also this. Check out all the Oregon CDs for Glen Moore's great work too. Not quite like Frisell/Ribot/Cline, but still fellow travelers in some sense.;)
 
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#24
this thread reads like a list my favorite bassists!
a few more i have not seen mentioned so far (i love me some Dave Holland and William Parker, but i'm sticking to electric players and doublers unless i see a few more Mark Helias/Larry Grenadier/Peter Kowald)...
Jah Wobble
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Mike Rivard (Club D'Elf)
Chris Wood (obvious but so true)
Stomu Takeishi (Eric Friedlander, Cuong Vu)
Jeff Caxide (Isis/Crone)
 
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#29
joe vegas said:
excellent, Passinwind. good heads-up about the live seastones. not every Head knows about that era, with phil & ned taking the intermission stage for a live bit of sonic artistry.

and some great Dave Holland playing can be heard with the ARC trio of Corea, Braxton and Mr. Holland.
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Here's a pretty cool Invalid Link Removed with many live recordings that verge on avant garde.

A lot of my interest in outside music was actually piqued by Phil Lesh's advocacy for Ornette Coleman and various serial composers. ;)
 
#30
thombo said:
this thread reads like a list my favorite bassists!
a few more i have not seen mentioned so far (i love me some Dave Holland and William Parker, but i'm sticking to electric players and doublers unless i see a few more Mark Helias/Larry Grenadier/Peter Kowald)...
Jah Wobble
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Mike Rivard (Club D'Elf)
Chris Wood (obvious but so true)
Stomu Takeishi (Eric Friedlander, Cuong Vu)
Jeff Caxide (Isis/Crone)
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Good call on Mike Rivard. Being in Boston, I get to see him a lot in a lot of different situations. A great bass player, but even more-so a great, multi-faceted, total musician.

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#32
mikezimmerman said:
Though he's drifted more towards electronic music and composition in recent years, you might want to look up some of Skuli Sverrisson's work (Skuli Sverrisson). It covers a pretty wide range of stuff, but some of it definitely falls into the NYC Downtown/avant garde category.
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Skuli is great! i've met him and seen him play a few times- always a pleasure! my favorite stuff w/ him is with Jim Black's AlasNoAxis, fantastic!
 
#33
thombo said:
Skuli is great! i've met him and seen him play a few times- always a pleasure! my favorite stuff w/ him is with Jim Black's AlasNoAxis, fantastic!
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Whoa, Jim Black! We used to see Jim with Human Feel in Boston back in the 90's; Kurt Rosenwinkel was sometimes part of that band too. Just a monster player. To give you an idea, they typically didn't have a bass player in that band (at least when we saw them) and the low end did not suffer at all :eek:

/rick
 
#34
New member here, and Oh wow, a thread near & dear to my interests!

Bill Laswell practically defined this genre with his first solo album Baselines, also the first Material album. But he seems to have drifted away from the real noisy, skronk-y stuff

Melvin Gibbs, yes!

Stomu Takeshi with Henry Threadgill's Make A Move

Steuart Liebig

Myles Boisen with Splatter Trio

Jerome Harris

Bob Ross with Debris

Nate McBride with Joe Morris' Racketclub

Jeff Song with Lowbrow

and yeah, +1 for Kermit Driscoll.
 
#38
Devin Sarno does some very cool drone/ambient work.

P.S. I'm a huge Nels Cline fan myself, and found out about Sarno via a collaboration project he did with Cline.

P.P.S. The Nels Cline Singers' former bassist Devin Hoff has done some interesting solo project work. He has a "crust jazz" (if that's a legit genre title) project with drummer Ches Smith called Good For Cows; their most recent album Audumla is worth a listen.
 
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