In no particular order: Lawson/Dodds/Woods – Numbers improv-looping- sensitive- musical-open-beautiful sounds Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity – Ancients Speak making hip-hop vital again-pete cosey playing his head off-melvin laying down the bass-Yoruba chants-intense music Seth Horan – Clang and Chime coming of age music for Seth-lyrical-melodic-grooveladen-beautiful bass Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity exciting-unique-contemporary jazz-Fibonacci and hip-hop […]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
I have uploaded a few tunes from a fabulous gig we did in May 2009. The audio is not fantastic: I recorded straight to mp3 from my beloved Zoom H4 recorder. I played by Wal fretless electric bass and Maciek Pysz is on electric guitar. Kate Hayes is singing and Pierre Hellio is on drums […]
OK, you should know your scales and arpeggios in many patterns if you play bass but during a lesson with Steve Billman, he noted that often you find yourself quickly ascending across the strings and then running up and down the G string. Steve had adapted some ideas that Frank Gambale had about playing diagonally […]
Phil Wain 