Double Bass DB bassist you cant miss?

#65
i haven't listened to much percy heath, i'll have to check him out some more.
i'll say i've been listening to alot of coltrane and i really like jimmy garrison's playing (and sound), the recordings of the song "greensleeves" are all awesome.
 
#67
Marcus Johnson said:
Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen Scott Colley mentioned here. Exemplary time, intonation, and tone. Beautiful player. Check out his stuff with Jim Hall. Actually, you can hear a bunch of clips at his website;www.scottcolley.com
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he's been a recent discovery for me, and I really love his playing too. You can also hear him online with Jim Hall, if you go to Jim's site, http://www.jimhallmusic.com/media.aspx

select Trios and either listen to a few tracks with Don Thompson first (its a hard life...), or skip through a few.

hes on some great records with Chris Potter and Alex Spiagin as well.
 
#69
I am glad Percy Heath made it on the list, I was starting to get worried! Some of Percy's essential recordings I would recommend are Dedicated to Connie (Modern Jazz Quartet), Incredible Jazz Guitar (Wes Montgomery) & Walkin' (Miles Davis).
Another great DB player I didn't see, (but I might have missed) is George Duvivier. He played quite a bit with Bud Powell and did some later sides with Ray Bryant, and hey, has anybody mentioned Israel Crosby? One of my desert island disc's is Ahmad Jamal's trio recordings "Cross Country Tour".
Also, I will take this opportunity to make a shameless plug for John Goldsby's Bass Book. It is an excellent place to start for a thorough list of jazz double bassists, as well as an excellent teaching aid.
 
#70
I would agree to the person in the earlier thread who mentioned Niels Henning Orsted Pederson and Ray Brown. Personally I'm more fond of Ray's style. But there's this great video on this website called Daily Motion with both of them trading off with Oscar Peterson:

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Oscar Peterson/video/91873

I'm also a Francois Rabbath fan, as well as Milt Hinton.

Daily Motion has quite a few cool videos on it. There's one with Bird, Coleman Hawkins Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich on it.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/coleman hawkins/video/53031

There's also great Scott LaFaro video clips here:
http://www.geocities.com/chuck_ralston/20slfclips.htm
 
#73
All though I consider Paul McCartney one of the best pop bassist ever, I'll mention this more as an 'interesting' rather than an entry into 'the best' category.

Anyhoo, on a recent special I saw, he played Elvis's bass players upright bass. He did a short voice/double bass duet with himself on one of the Elvis tunes. I thought he did a fine job.
 
#77
fretlessman71 said:
Okay... so we've about covered Jazz and Classical bassists - anyone have any ROCK double bass favorites? Sting did a pretty good job of that from time to time - who else is doing that out there? And Fusion counts, too.
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Bill Black - Elvis
Marshal Lytle - Bill Haley
Lee Rocker - Straycats

Does Willy Dixon count? He is pretty influential.
 
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#78
I personally have a very big list of the players I like, but when it comes to narrowing down the list to who should remain, here's my vote


ron carter - overall bass playing (listen to v.s.o.p. quintet live)
charlie haden - maturity of style, note selection, tastefulness
charlie mingus - attitude, sound projection (strong, powerful sound),
overall musicianship

scott lafaro - non-conformity, and soloing in the upper registers
with guts
 
#79
So what I'm getting here is that if someone were to approach string bass from a modern rock standpoint, it would be pretty innovative? I mean, all I can think of in the last 20 years is Lee Rocker, Sting, and Jim Creeggan.... and you guys haven't even come up with Jim... really, it's not ALL about jazz, is it?
 
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