Jazz Bassists to Listen To?

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, for sure.

ron carter should proably be on your list too.

 

I'm gonna go ahead and add Dave Holland to the list. Amazing bassist, has taken solo bass to a new level.
Also Scott LaFaro, he was the bassist for the Bill Evans Trio. Did some pretty innovative stuff on albums like Portrait In Jazz and Walt For Debby.
Obviously you should check out Mingus, he shows what you can do as the bassist AND bandleader of an ensemble.
A few more:
John Ore
Larry Gales
Ornette Coleman

 

John Patitucci

Good interview snippets with him here:

 

I'm gonna say Red Mitchell, just to cut P.W. off. Whatchya think of that?!?

But seriously, he's pretty sweet.

And Percy Heath.

 

You can also check out:

Ray Brown

Jimmy Blanton

Oscar pettiford

Lisle Atkinson

Richard Davis

Michael Fleming

Sam Jones

Eddie Gomez

Milt Hinton

Stanley Clarke

I can point you to sooo many more,but here are a few more that you can add to your list!

 

I think that's just peachy, Nathan.

 

Yay!

Also Wilbur Ware.

He good.

 

I'm not really a jazz player, but I love Wilbur Ware's sound and phrasing. Check out Sonny Rollin's A Night at the Village Vanguard for some great bass playing in a horn trio setting.

 

I assume you are also listening to jazz musicians who are NOT bassists. There is a LOT to learn from non-bassists, as well.

 

Big thumbs up, Thumbs. A guy named Bach is a great source for bass lines.

 

I always wondered if anyone else was copping Bach basslines.

 

this would me my advise too.

but i will also recomend a couple of bass players:

- gary willis
- alain caron
- esperanza spalding
- steve swallow
- carles benavent
- avishai cohen
- tim lefebvre

 

Badlands- Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua, Dave Carpenter (bass)
As It Is- Peter Erskine, John Taylor, Palle Daniellson (bass)
Serenity- Bobo Stenson Trio (comprised of Bobo Stenson, Jon Christensen, Anders Jormin (bass))

Worth a serious look. These have been game-changer, treasured recordings for me. Badlands is a little more straightforward, but As It Is and Serenity will likely widen your notions about what a piano Jazz trio and bass playing in such an environment can be. Again, worth a serious look.

 

ME.

 

George Mraz

 

For me it's Charles Mingus, great power and passion in his playing and his bands always sound great

 

Brian Bromberg!!!!

 

Gary Peacock
Charlie Haden

 

PLEEZE, not again! We got many, many "Who's yer favorite Bassist" threads here, especially jazz bassists.
Why not use the TB search function and bump up an older thread that has maybe a hundred favorites in there.

EDIT: Some even contain clever posts like fryBASS' that say ME

Holy ****.