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Jamiroquai

Kirk Bryant

Kirk Bryant

Aug 23, 2004
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Aloha, ..Or., not nearly as tropical as it sounds!
#1
Hey ya'll I just recently got hip to Jamiroquai and I'm diggin the bass player / don't know his name but his old skool playing reminds me of all the disco bass lines from the 70'S and 80's that I loved to play.
I would like to ask you guy's what other new artists you listen to for this type of groove playing.
I listen to a ton of variety so I was surprised I hadn't listened to J.thou I have heard the name for awhile.
So lets limit this to new artist out in the last 5-10 yrs max.

that said I just really got into Gvn't Mule within the last 5 yrs hahahahahah stupid me :rollno:

comon show the love :hyper:

Peace.....Capt Kirk
 
#3
Hey man i love Jamiroquai too!

They got some fun songs to groove to.

Stuart Zender was definitely there best bass player thers been a few since the only ones i can think of being Nick Fyffe and Paul Turner.

I dont know if you know these guys already but you should check out Incognito there pretty funky and they got some cool grooves. Or possibly The Brand New Heavies which is the group Jay Kay was actually auditioning for before he formed Jamiroquai.
 
#15
That glimpse of the bass looked like a P-bass. Surprised me since I thought that J basses are more popular for that style.

Jamiroquai is very good alright, but sometimes a little too derivative of Stevie Wonder. But I love Stevie, so derivative isn't totally bad, just makes me feel that I have heard the song somewhere before...
 
#16
JimmyM said:
This may be considered sacrilege in Jamiroquai World, but I greatly prefer Nick Fyffe and Paul Turner.
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They're all good, but if I had to pick just one it too would be Paul Turner. His work with Annie Lennox is really good too.

bassman_al said:
That glimpse of the bass looked like a P-bass. Surprised me since I thought that J basses are more popular for that style.
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Just goes to show it isn't always a matter of what you use, but how you use it. I believe PT is a great fan/endorsee of Alleva Coppella J5 basses, but also uses a vintage P and 4&5 string 'Rays, plus a huge Aguilar rig to amplify them. Nice work if you can get it.
 
#17
JimmyM said:
This may be considered sacrilege in Jamiroquai World, but I greatly prefer Nick Fyffe and Paul Turner.
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Yeh Nick Fyffe an Paul Turner are amazing players in their own right, im not disputing that what so ever. I kinda just get the feeling that Stu Zender slotted in well, it just seems as tho they lost the flair when he left. They still come out with some hits but in the zender days it was like every song on their albums was decent if not amazing. Thats just my opinion though.
 
#19
Jordanthebass said:
Yeh Nick Fyffe an Paul Turner are amazing players in their own right, im not disputing that what so ever. I kinda just get the feeling that Stu Zender slotted in well, it just seems as tho they lost the flair when he left. They still come out with some hits but in the zender days it was like every song on their albums was decent if not amazing. Thats just my opinion though.
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Nick Fyffe? Are you kidding? Total amateur compared to Turner and Zender. I guess you haven't checked out too much of the live stuff cause Fyffe was barely cutting it. I'm actually surprised he was with the band as long as he was. Anyway, that's enough Fyffe-bashing for now. Randy Hope-Taylor was the guy who played with Incognito and he was, indeed, fantastic. One very underrated player from the British Acid Jazz scene was Richard (his last name is never mentioned on the album sleeves) from Corduroy. Check out the albums "Dad Man Cat" and "High Havoc". Very fluid playing by a guy very at ease on his instrument. It's not disco-ish in the least (and it's not from the last five to-ten-years), but it's great stuff.
 
#20
bass12 said:
Nick Fyffe? Are you kidding? Total amateur compared to Turner and Zender. I guess you haven't checked out too much of the live stuff cause Fyffe was barely cutting it. I'm actually surprised he was with the band as long as he was. Anyway, that's enough Fyffe-bashing for now. Randy Hope-Taylor was the guy who played with Incognito and he was, indeed, fantastic. One very underrated player from the British Acid Jazz scene was Richard (his last name is never mentioned on the album sleeves) from Corduroy. Check out the albums "Dad Man Cat" and "High Havoc". Very fluid playing by a guy very at ease on his instrument. It's not disco-ish in the least (and it's not from the last five to-ten-years), but it's great stuff.
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Well yeh i havent checked out the live stuff with Nick Fyffe, i was judging it by his recorded work to be honest i.e. Synkronized etc. But yeh i agree Zender and Turner definitely work better with the band, its a shame Zender left in the first place tbh, i hear he had only been playing seriously for two years before they recorded Emergency on Planet Earth which seems pretty crazy. The guys got talent.
 

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