Double Bass DB bassist you cant miss?

[TomSauter]

60 posts and no Buster Williams or Jimmy Garrison fans?

 

[Alexi David]

60 posts and no Buster Williams or Jimmy Garrison fans?

Big Jimmy Garrison fan here!

 

[Eric Jackson]

Sorry for the archival bump, but I've just reread this thread thanks to a link in a current thread, and hafta add:

Percy Heath. Right up there with Ray Brown for time and tone.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

+1 on Percy! He was one of my earliest inlfuences....what a sound.

I like this thread; it makes me start rummaging through my CDs for inspiration.

 

[jmpiwonka]

i haven't listened to much percy heath, i'll have to check him out some more.
i'll say i've been listening to alot of coltrane and i really like jimmy garrison's playing (and sound), the recordings of the song "greensleeves" are all awesome.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen Scott Colley mentioned here. Exemplary time, intonation, and tone. Beautiful player. Check out his stuff with Jim Hall. Actually, you can hear a bunch of clips at his website;www.scottcolley.com

 

[oliebrice]

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen Scott Colley mentioned here. Exemplary time, intonation, and tone. Beautiful player. Check out his stuff with Jim Hall. Actually, you can hear a bunch of clips at his website;www.scottcolley.com

he's been a recent discovery for me, and I really love his playing too. You can also hear him online with Jim Hall, if you go to Jim's site, [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

select Trios and either listen to a few tracks with Don Thompson first (its a hard life...), or skip through a few.

hes on some great records with Chris Potter and Alex Spiagin as well.

 

[bassa]

60 posts and no Buster Williams or Jimmy Garrison fans?

thanks for the reminder, love the sound, the chops, how he lays down a walking line.

 

[mapleleaf4evr]

I am glad Percy Heath made it on the list, I was starting to get worried! Some of Percy's essential recordings I would recommend are Dedicated to Connie (Modern Jazz Quartet), Incredible Jazz Guitar (Wes Montgomery) & Walkin' (Miles Davis).
Another great DB player I didn't see, (but I might have missed) is George Duvivier. He played quite a bit with Bud Powell and did some later sides with Ray Bryant, and hey, has anybody mentioned Israel Crosby? One of my desert island disc's is Ahmad Jamal's trio recordings "Cross Country Tour".
Also, I will take this opportunity to make a shameless plug for John Goldsby's Bass Book. It is an excellent place to start for a thorough list of jazz double bassists, as well as an excellent teaching aid.

 

[DaveAceofBass]

I would agree to the person in the earlier thread who mentioned Niels Henning Orsted Pederson and Ray Brown. Personally I'm more fond of Ray's style. But there's this great video on this website called Daily Motion with both of them trading off with Oscar Peterson:

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I'm also a Francois Rabbath fan, as well as Milt Hinton.

Daily Motion has quite a few cool videos on it. There's one with Bird, Coleman Hawkins Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich on it.

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There's also great Scott LaFaro video clips here:
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[bikerbassplayer]

As long as Ray Bryant is mentioned here , does anyone know
what happened to his brother Tommy who played bass for a
session with Papa Jo Jones in the 60's or 70's ? The group
was known as the Jo Jones Trio .

 

[fretlessman71]

Okay... so we've about covered Jazz and Classical bassists - anyone have any ROCK double bass favorites? Sting did a pretty good job of that from time to time - who else is doing that out there? And Fusion counts, too.

 

[pedro]

All though I consider Paul McCartney one of the best pop bassist ever, I'll mention this more as an 'interesting' rather than an entry into 'the best' category.

Anyhoo, on a recent special I saw, he played Elvis's bass players upright bass. He did a short voice/double bass duet with himself on one of the Elvis tunes. I thought he did a fine job.

 

[Roger Mouton]

ALL those other guys mentioned in this thread and don't forget Leroy Vinegar either. Rufus Reid too. And Brian Bromberg. All these guys are MUST hear if you want to know double bassists.

 

[fretlessman71]

Any of these guys rock players? Am I missing something?

 

[pedro]

I'd considere McCartney rock or at least pop.

 

[Scott McC]

Okay... so we've about covered Jazz and Classical bassists - anyone have any ROCK double bass favorites? Sting did a pretty good job of that from time to time - who else is doing that out there? And Fusion counts, too.

Bill Black - Elvis
Marshal Lytle - Bill Haley
Lee Rocker - Straycats

Does Willy Dixon count? He is pretty influential.

 

[pao_bass]

I personally have a very big list of the players I like, but when it comes to narrowing down the list to who should remain, here's my vote


ron carter - overall bass playing (listen to v.s.o.p. quintet live)
charlie haden - maturity of style, note selection, tastefulness
charlie mingus - attitude, sound projection (strong, powerful sound),
overall musicianship

scott lafaro - non-conformity, and soloing in the upper registers
with guts

 

[fretlessman71]

So what I'm getting here is that if someone were to approach string bass from a modern rock standpoint, it would be pretty innovative? I mean, all I can think of in the last 20 years is Lee Rocker, Sting, and Jim Creeggan.... and you guys haven't even come up with Jim... really, it's not ALL about jazz, is it?

 

[pretaanluxis]

[[Renaud-Garcia fons:he plays a lot, i wolud really love to see videos of his playing....don't like his music too much, but i find him amazing

I agree he is amazing but I do like his music even more.

I agree, Renauld Garcia-Fons is amazing, how can you not enjoy songs like Berimbass. He's on a whole other level in my book