Double Bass Five Musicians that touch your soul

[J_Bass]

Hello,

I have a handful of musicians whose music and composing is very special to me and seems to touch places that rarely other musician can.

Musicians that really touch me, the ones when you listen to, move something special inside. The ones you say to yourself, this is it, this is what I'm feeling, it could be written by me.


You can name only five musicians and give two examples of each. No particular order, but you are limited to five.


Here are mine, in alphabetical order:

Carlos Bica
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Jaco Pastorius
Michel Petrucciani



Carlos Bica:






John Coltrane:






Bill Evans:






Jaco Pastorius:






Michel Petrucciani:

 

[kerrycares]

James Jamerson
Jaco
Ray Brown
Rodney Whitaker
Wayne Shorter
Christian McBride

Sorry couldn’t do 5 , so one of them is a tie.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Frank Morgan
Bonnie Raitt
Fred Hersch
Ray Brown
Jessye Norman

 

[yodedude2]

Pat Metheny
Carla Bley
Esperanza Spalding
Charles Mingus
Al Green

 

[Don Hergert]

J.S. Bach
Fanny Crosby
Richard Strauss
Pops Foster
Earl Scruggs

 

[Jim Dedrick]

I like this question. List is constantly changing and always asking myself why this music reaches me on a different level. I love when a musician is able to share something from their soul.

Ralph Alessi
Red Mitchell
Marc Copland
Marilyn Crispell
Dave Holland

 

[bassfran]

Hendrix
Mingus
Diamanda Galas
Mahalia
PJ Harvey
(hon. mentions, Willie Nelson, Jeff Beck, Nina Hagen, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Alice Coltrane, Howlin' Wolf...)

 

[Lee Moses]

Really like your list, @J_Bass .

For me:
Miles Davis



Bill Evans (with a huge nod to Scotty)



Jaco Pastorius

EDIT: I just noticed that you posted this one as well. I'm going to leave it anyway--it's my favorite studio recording of his.




Merle Haggard



Ludwig van Beethoven

 

[J_Bass]

Really like your list, @J_Bass .

For me:
Miles Davis



Bill Evans (with a huge nod to Scotty)



Jaco Pastorius

EDIT: I just noticed that you posted this one as well. I'm going to leave it anyway--it's my favorite studio recording of his.




Merle Haggard



Ludwig van Beethoven

Thank you!

I like your list a lot, too!

Just browsed it, didn't know that Miles live recording and don't know Merle Haggard, thank you for the suggestions.

 

[unbrokenchain]

A random sample from my favorites in no particular order, I'm going..

Thelonious Monk
Gillian Welch
Townes Van Zandt
Joni Mitchell
Hunter/Garcia

 

[Richard Blair]

Gram Parsons
Chick Corea
Mavis Staples
Jaco Pastorius
Merle Haggard.

hard to stop at 5. Would have gone to Metheny, the Dead, Keith Jarrett - hard question!

 

[John Chambliss]

John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Keith Jarrett
Antonio Carlos Tom Jobim
Sergio Mendes
And many many more

 

[AGCurry]

Wow. In thinking about the question, I realize that my first answers are singers. Also, most of them are dead.

Singers:
Ray Charles
Joan Baez
Ralph (and Carter) Stanley
Shlomo Carlebach
Joe Turner
Mahalia Jackson

For instrumentalists, none are bassists:
Sam Musiker (clarinet)
Bob Wills (fiddle)
Earl Scruggs, banjo & guitar
Otis Spann, piano
Stan Getz, saxophone

 

[neddyrow]

great thread idea and great answers so far!

i'll need to do some "soul-searching" and get back to you with my list

 

[John Chambliss]

Oh goodness, favorite singers - Laura Nyro, Chet Baker, Karen Carpenter, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone

 

[ctrlzjones]

I don't do list, but I make exceptions:

Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee


Iva Bittová


Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny (Haden always, Metheny only in this duo)


William Parker & Billy Bang


Ornette Coleman & Don Cherry & Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins


And so many more ... so many more ... JS Bach has to be here too and Coltrane and Steve Lacy and Monk and Miles Davis and Steve Lacy and Bela Bartok and Nina Simone and Antonin Tobin and Peter Brötzman and and and. There is no use for lists other than not including something unforgettable ...

 

[Who da Ville]

Not in order: how could you rank them? But, yes, Satchmo clearly is on top...

Louis Armstrong
Bootsy Collins
Randy Newman
Duke Ellington
James Brown

 

[AboutSweetSue]

Jimi Hendrix
Jack Bruce
Otis Redding
Dan Auerbach
Ray LaMontagne

 

[Scott1482]

Jaco Pastorius
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Anthony Jackson
Billy Sheehan

 

[garrett2]

Etta James
Otis Redding
Louis Armstrong
Eric Dolphy
Sviatislov Richter