Favorite Jazz bass tone?

[TodB]

Dee Murray on "Love Lies Bleeding"

 

[Hopkins]

Both Pickups full on, tone backed off a hair.

+1 on the John Paul Jones reference.

 

[gepettus]

Fretless - jaco p
vintage - JPJ, zeppelin
Modern and also vintage, Juan Alderete, i really admire the way he plays and the tone he gets

 

[PJRL]

Another one for John Paul Jones.
Some of the early Jethro Tull, can't remember the Bass players name but he has a great Jazz Bass tone.
And... Noel Redding, with Hendrix !

 

[dedpool1052]

ben shepherd, soundgarden, badmotorfinger.

and jason newsted's tone on "cunning stunts"

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

And... Noel Redding, with Hendrix !

Something tells me it's not always Noel playing....

 

[The Lemon]

Ben Kenney on anything from "A Crow Left of the Murder" by Incubus That is the Jazz Bass tone that's been stuck in my head for years. I'm finally getting close to nailing it though, now that I manned up and got some flats.

 

[Catbuster]

Geddy on Counterparts and Test for Echo

 

[Pablo Souza]

Arthur Maia (Brazil)
Alberto Continentino (Brazil)

 

[EddieT]

Dee Murray on "Love Lies Bleeding"

Awesome..totally agree.

 

[jwj1701]

Another for JPJ, and if I had an extra 8-10 G's laying around I'd order the new acoustic 360's, just to try them.

 

[IMdanwhoRU]

Jaco in this session. Is my all time favorite jazz bass tone.

JACO PASTORIUS- The Chicken- Studio Live&John Scofield - YouTube

 

[Dave W]

Geddy Lee

 

[lijazz]

Geddy on Counterparts and Test for Echo

Beat me to it!

 

[Altitude]

Honorable mention to Skeet Curtis on Disc 2 of Maceo's "Roots and Grooves" recording. It's a super-clean scooped J tone, and certainly wouldn't work well in any style of music - but it works really well on that record.

Dennis Chambers on drums, too.

http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Grooves-Maceo-Parker/dp/B00127I3V8