Fender P in a jazz trio

[jd56hawk]

I mean really, just try and think of something that a Precision Bass HASN'T been used for.

Barbershop Quartet?

 

[monsterthompson]

Another example is the Chuck Mangione Quartet, funk jazz band - Tony Levin on P Bass, Steve Gadd, Chuck Mangione on flugelhorn/trumpet

 

[Admiral Akbar]

Lovely bass sound, and fits right with the electric guitar and drums. Guitarist and drummer sound great too!

I’d love to hear this electric bass in an even more traditional jazz setting - acoustic piano, with or without horns and no electric guitar.

 

[Carl Hillman]

Something I don't hear often enough

...and, I still haven't heard it.

Seriously, turn up the bass in the mix Mr. Engineer. This isn't 1949.

 

[wysiwyg248]

Here is some Colin Hodgkinson with back door.

 

[winston]

Love it. Bill is one of a kind.

I see what you did there...feels good to me!

I've definitely seen people use a P to great effect in straight-ahead jazz...Mike Richmond, and Bob Cranshaw played a Yamaha P/J with Sonny Rollins for a while.

 

[Kerem Koseoglu]

My not-so-secret formula:

• Fender P with Chromes
• NordyMute
• Sadowsky SBP preamp, with bass and treble at 50%

That combo sounds one step closer to an upright and is usable in a jazz trio.

 

[project_c]

Something I don't hear often enough

I find stuff like this super inspiring, it’s a beautifully balanced recording. I play jazz in two bands, both bands have a very similar setup to this. It can be really hard to find reference material for jazz trios / quartets who play legit standards but with a simple passive electric bass rather than an upright (whether that’s a p / j / rick / whatever, it actually doesn’t matter). I think it’s such a nice sound, I’ll never understand why electric bass in this setting is such a rarity.

 

[ToddB1963]

Name a few. Monk Montgomery comes to mind, and maybe Jim Hughart. I'd like to hear more. I don't see them often in straight ahead trio jazz. Fusion yes, probably some soft stuff, but not much outside of that.

 

[SamOfzo]

They haven't recorded a whole lot as a trio, but here's Cory Henry, Nat Townsley and Michael League (on P with flats), playing a Jaco classic

 

[tvbop]

There it is right there. V4B, old P, dead flats. .. glorious tone.

 

[mongo2]

A P bass or similar tonality is my #1 choice for jazz especially since a minor stroke 6 years ago made playing upright impossilbe for me. I tried a fretless P style but I my intonation was too inconsistant due to the effects of stroke so I stick with fretted.

 

[BargeOn]

Nice stuff! Thanks.

 

[BargeOn]

I find stuff like this super inspiring, it’s a beautifully balanced recording. I play jazz in two bands, both bands have a very similar setup to this. It can be really hard to find reference material for jazz trios / quartets who play legit standards but with a simple passive electric bass rather than an upright (whether that’s a p / j / rick / whatever, it actually doesn’t matter). I think it’s such a nice sound, I’ll never understand why electric bass in this setting is such a rarity.

Look for Joe Pass "Resonance", a live trio with Jim Hughart on Precision. It has a lor in common with this one.

 

[retslock]

Something I don't hear often enough


Guy Pratt on bass. Edit: Oops, that's Mike Pratt
And I suspect no one will fire the drummer.

A bass is a bass is a bass.

 

[BargeOn]

...and, I still haven't heard it.

Seriously, turn up the bass in the mix Mr. Engineer. This isn't 1949.

Ha! Fair enough, but then we are biased around here. I feel the same way listening to the early Monk Montgomery recordings.

 

[Gervais Cote]

(Santa, forget about the double bass I asked you to bring under the three and bring me a P !!!)

 

[Gervais Cote]

In jazz music, magic is in the fingers…………..and the hollow body electric guitar.

I’m always amazed to hear what can be done with a basic precision bass.

 

[BobDeRosa]

Something I don't hear often enough


Guy Pratt on bass. Edit: Oops, that's Mike Pratt
And I suspect no one will fire the drummer.

As a jazz player who uses primarily upright, I'm not supposed to like this, but I sure do! That P sounds great.

 

[LowendG]

I see what you did there...feels good to me!

I've definitely seen people use a P to great effect in straight-ahead jazz...Mike Richmond, and Bob Cranshaw played a Yamaha P/J with Sonny Rollins for a while.

Didn't Cranshaw play a single-coil P (or maybe it was an early Telecaster) with Rollins at one point in the 70s? I had a live album that I seem to recall you could see that in one photo.