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Music tips for me, please.

#42
I have and love all of those, Bill. Big Barkmarket fan, and fortunate to call D. Sardy an old friend. We used to both be on American records back in the early '90's, and talked about forming a band once upon a time post-Medicine and post-Barkmarket. Alas, it never happend, and his producer/mixer career went through the roof. Great rhythm section stuff on all those records.

That Pinback song is possibly that band's finest moment, so excellent. I can listen to that all day.
 
#44
good stuff so far... brokeback, intronaut, dave holland, pinback, and skuli all in the same thread, i dig!

you probably know my top three, but they'd be on my "badass bass" playlist. all have drums...

Fire Island- brian eno's Another Green World- sick improce duet between Percy Jones and Phil Collins... little synth swells as well.
iambic 9 poetry- squarepusher's ultravisitor
big eater- the bad plus (written by reid anderson, bassist)


honorable mention to anything by tortoise or morphine.
 
#45
Eno: Another Green World is awesome, great reminder.

Squarepusher: really good, didn't know the Ultravisitor record, I like what he does.

Zooma: another great reminder, thanks. So rad! JPJ is a god.

DFA = all over it, thanks.

Tortoise = have a bunch, there's some great music in that large body of work.

Morphine = have it all, love it all

Steve Lawson = it's a bit hard for me to love, as you might imagine. A little new-agey, but of a real quality that can't be denied. He's quite a composer, with a great sense of beauty. I kinda like what I've heard from "Grace & Gratitude", and that Blue Planet piece that was recommended is cool. He speaks through his music. Much respect to him.

Love Simon Jones w/ The Verve, "Slide Away" is great. I like that "No Come Down" comp a lot. He's pretty deep.

Les Claypool = I dig it, and his tone always gets me in a good way. Plus it always seems that he's just so "free". Excellent.

Michael Manring: Pretty f*&#ing EPIC. Surprised myself how much I liked him. This one piece called "When We Were Asleep in the Earth" really blows my wig back. Plus "Helios", wow. I guess that whole Soliloquy record is my fave thing from him I've heard so far.

Mingus: Into it, and diving deeper with some more great recommendations of things I wasn't familiar with, thank you! What's not to love?

Avishai Cohen: he's deep, man. Just getting into him.

Jimmy Haslip: bar none, my FAVE jazz/fusion bassist. Somehow I really feel with him that he means every note that goes by. Such passion. And FUNKY!

Jah Wobble: thank you, and all over it. Great recommendation for the "Spinner" record, pretty nice. Unexpected, actually.

Brokeback: gorgeous.

Fernando Huergo: Don't LOVE it, but the "Living These Times" record is pretty nutz, playing-wise. He's sure good. I like the song called "La Agonia del Rufian Melancólico".

Chris Squire: "Fish Out Of Water" Just incredible. WOW. What writing. Nice arrangements, too. "Silently Falling" will blow your mind.

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There's way more I just haven't gotten to yet. THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone!

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I got one for you, speaking of Chris Squire. Sparks: "Kimono My House". UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE. Check out one of my heroes Martin Gordon just destroying on there. What a player. I love this band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gordon

Best,
JMJ
 
#47
jmjbassplayer said:
I got one for you, speaking of Chris Squire. Sparks: "Kimono My House". UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE. Check out one of my heroes Martin Gordon just destroying on there. What a player. I love this band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gordon

Best,
JMJ
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Got it on LP! Pretty far ahead of its time if you ask me. Lots of cheesy keyboard sounds, lots of great musicianship.
 
#49
jmjbassplayer said:
I have and love all of those, Bill. Big Barkmarket fan, and fortunate to call D. Sardy an old friend. We used to both be on American records back in the early '90's, and talked about forming a band once upon a time post-Medicine and post-Barkmarket. Alas, it never happend, and his producer/mixer career went through the roof. Great rhythm section stuff on all those records.

That Pinback song is possibly that band's finest moment, so excellent. I can listen to that all day.
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d.sardy's production of Oasis' last 2 albums was great - particularly 'dont believe the truth'
 
#50
JMJ, try Christian McBride from the cd A Family Affair "...Or So You Thought". It's got a funky little solo w/ wah or envelope (not sure...don't know that stuff) in the middle. Also "Brown Funk (for Ray)" off the same cd. Nice groove and lots of neat fills, each one using some sort of different effect.

I know he's not a bassist, but if you haven't heard Soul Live, seek some of that out. One of the very few organists that I've heard that play so well I don't miss the fact they don't have a bass player. Very good left hand, IMO.
 
#52
Bill Laswell's Invisible Design II is all bass and awesome. Its on John Zorn's label Tzadik.

I also reccomend Four Films by Trevor Dunn. Its also on Zorn's label. Its music Dunn composed and performed for some movies. Its really good.

My last recommendation is Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant the album is called Sister Phantom Owl Fish and is on Ipecac Records.

As you can tell I love Trevor Dunn.
 
#53
I freaking LOVE Trevor Dunn, got my head blown off by him when I first discovered Fantomas. I don't know that particular Laswell record, must get.

Also down with the Christian McBride suggestion, gotta get into it.

And lastly: HADEN!!!

Best,
JMJ
 
#54
Tommy T, the bass player in Gogol Bordello, has a solo Invalid Link Removedcoming out first to Itunes in a month.

Can't check it out yet, so I suppose this is a bit of a thread departure, but I plan to check that out. Figuring he's coming from a self-described gypsy punk band, describes the album with this phrase: “In the 70s, funk, wah-wah pedals, and jazz had a huge impact on Ethiopian music,” and the label tags it as "An Excursion into Ethiopian Dub, Funk and Jazz by the Bass Player from Gogol Bordello" .... It's at least a different perspective on the instrument.
 
#55
kegbarnacle said:
Tommy T, the bass player in Gogol Bordello, has a solo Invalid Link Removedcoming out first to Itunes in a month.

Can't check it out yet, so I suppose this is a bit of a thread departure, but I plan to check that out. Figuring he's coming from a self-described gypsy punk band, describes the album with this phrase: “In the 70s, funk, wah-wah pedals, and jazz had a huge impact on Ethiopian music,” and the label tags it as "An Excursion into Ethiopian Dub, Funk and Jazz by the Bass Player from Gogol Bordello" .... It's at least a different perspective on the instrument.
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I love Gogol Bordello! I'll be checking that out.
 
#57
A lot of stuff I like has already been mentioned.

But here's a few I'm surprised haven't:

Invalid Link Removed. His whole album is very good. Also his "Ruiner Severhead" album is bass driven but very different - industrial, dark and heavy.

On the jazz side, Esperanza Spalding is fantastic and only getting better. Great bass player and beautiful vocals too. Songwriting chops are good but will get better.

Ron Carter. His recent album "Dear Miles" is good but my favorite is "Jazz, My Romance" Not exactly solo pieces or even "bass albums" but great jazz albums from groups led by a legendary bassist.

Bakithi Kumalo. I'm still a bigger fan of his two albums with Paul Simon (Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints) but his solo stuff is good, if over-produced IMO. "Fretless Solo" (that's the actual track name) off his new album is really good.

Personally I'm not a big "solo bass" fan but I like these along with a good number of others already mentioned. You (Justin) are one of my favorite players along with Jamerson, Pino, Tony Levin, Bill Gould because you give the song exactly what it needs. But great music comes through regardless of the setting or format so I don't ever purposely exclude "bass-centric" music. Seeing Michael Manring live was really cool and was just a super cool dude to boot.
 
#58
Jared Lash said:
A lot of stuff I like has already been mentioned.

But here's a few I'm surprised haven't:

Invalid Link Removed. His whole album is very good. Also his "Ruiner Severhead" album is bass driven but very different - industrial, dark and heavy.
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Oh yeah, Jeff Schmidt...the guy who pooped all over being a sideman in the thread that inspired this thread. Yeah, he's great.
 
#59
The four recordings of Scott LaFaro with Bill Evans.
Pure Genius of collective improvisation.

-Portrait in Jazz
-Explorations
-Sunday at the Village Vanguard (live)
-Waltz for Debby (live)

(I'd start with the 2 live ones, also available as a complete Village Vanguard box set of 3 cds)

cheers
 

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