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Upright Only influences?

Stingus

Stingus

Jan 2, 2004
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Des Moines, Iowa
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#1
This is sort of a cousin to my "no compromise" thread in Misc, but are there any strictly upright players that you count as influences?

Myself, I almost have more upright players than electric!

Charles Mingus
Nels Henning Orsted Petersen
Scott LaFaro
Ray Brown (more his book that his actual playing)
Eddie Gomez (pretty sure he's upright only)
Paul Chambers
Ron Carter


I would play only upright if I could afford one, but since I'm poor, and don't have the room, I make do on my electric with a pick and flatwounds.

Anyone else? No doublers! :spit:

:D
 
#4
Originally posted by Stingus
AHHHH!!! There's at least one doubler there (chris wood). Oh well. I wanted people who play upright <b>ONLY</b>.

That's cool though.:D I didn't put Holland because I thought he played electric too.
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Well, YOU did include Brown & Carter...both played sunburst P-basses. I used to run home from school to catch a glimpse of Brown playing Fender bass on the Merv Griffin Show's outro theme.
Carter has played electric with Miles(e.g. Miles In The Sky) & Grover Washington, Jr.

Holland also played electric bass with Miles' "3rd Great Quintet"(Bitches Brew, Filles de Kilimajaro, etc)...IIRC, Holland played electric prior to URB.

Anyway, all the guys you mentioned were/are definite influences/inspirations for me.
Jimmy Blanton, Paul Chambers, Miroslav Vitous, William Parker, Ben Allison, Jimmy Garrison, & Reggie Workman are some others that come to mind.

Andy Gonzalez, the great Latin bassist, is another.

And-
For some reason, I never really cared for Eddie Gomez' tone...(though I do like his playing).
 
#5
Jim, I'm sorry. I didn't know Ray Brown played electric, honest! I knew Miles tried to get Carter to play electric, but didn't know whether he really did or not.

Speaking of Latin bassists, I can't believe totally forgot my latest favorite, Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez. His solo album, Cachaito is great!

Gomez has a lot of high end in his sound, and I have to admit I've only heard him on one thing--Bill Evans at the Montreaux Jazz Festival--but his approach blew me away at the time. Same thing with Orsted-Petersen: I've only heard him on "Nigerian Marketplace" w/Oscar Peterson, but his approach and upfront sound killed me as a beginner about 10 yrs ago.
 
#8
Originally posted by Stingus
Gomez has a lot of high end in his sound, and I have to admit I've only heard him on one thing--Bill Evans at the Montreaux Jazz Festival--but his approach blew me away at the time.

I have 2-3 of Gomez' solo albums...+ all the Steps Ahead stuff. To me, it's an almost 'shrill' tone. Right now, I'm hearing Corea's "The Mad Hatter" in my head...that's Gomez, right?
There's a Steps Ahead DVD w/ Gomez out there(the ACOUSTIC Steps not the electric version).
;)

Same thing with Orsted-Petersen: I've only heard him on "Nigerian Marketplace" w/Oscar Peterson, but his approach and upfront sound killed me as a beginner about 10 yrs ago. [/B]
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NHOP has a fantastic, big tone.
First time I heard him(story time)-
Xmas morning, 1976...my parents give me my first 'real' stereo. I'm justing getting into Jazz so I also get some records. One is called The Trumpet Kings...it was a LIVE recording with Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, & maybe Dizzy; the rhythm section? Kinda drawing a blank, though it was definitely NHOP on bass.
I throw the record on & the bass enters with this descending walking thing...huge sound & killer tone! Finally a stereo with bass reproduction.

...the rest is history.
 
#10
Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield
I would go with every one of the names mentioned so far - I also discovered Palle Danielsson in the last year and love his warm, complex, acoustic tone - I think if I could sound like anybody on DB - then I would like it to be him! :)
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Chalk another one up for Palle Danielsson! Beautiful sound, lovely lines.

Also: Buster Williams, an extraordinary funky URB player.
 
#12
Originally posted by Richard Lindsey
EDIT: OK, I know Patitucci's a doubler, but what the hell, he's a great upright player.
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Heh. Yeah, I know. I just got Wayne Shorter's "Footprints: Live", and I have to say I like Patitucci's upright playing more than a lot of his electric.

(I admit, the only reason I kept saying "no doublers!" is because I didn't want 150 posts saying "Jamerson!", I was looking for some different people. :D Sorry, for any trouble.)
 
#16
Bruce Lindfield said:
I would go with every one of the names mentioned so far - I also discovered Palle Danielsson in the last year and love his warm, complex, acoustic tone - I think if I could sound like anybody on DB - then I would like it to be him! :)
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Yeah! Amen to that... Palle Danielsson kicks ass! His playing with Jarett etc, is great!
Bruce, if you like his playing you check out his swedish fellow bass player Lars Danielsson (no relation). He has a big woody sound and great chops/ideas.

/lovebown
 
#20
Stingus said:
are there any strictly upright players that you count as influences?

Myself, I almost have more upright players than electric!

Nels Henning Orsted Petersen
Ron Carter
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Both of these guys have played electric bass guitar in the past. Ron played on a bunch of CTI releases as well as with Miles. I'm not sure if NHOP ever recorded on slab but he played it in his youth.
 

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