Thanks for the replies.
bassace--met Ray Brown. Wow! Bass icon. To my ears anyway today's guys do not have that 'projection' that the likes of Ray Brown, Charlie Mingus, Milt Hinton, Pops Foster had--they had to cut through a band--big bands as well--with no amplification. Like Eddie Lang, early Django,Freddie Green on acoustic guitar.
Call me old fashioned------------------------------Time to raise the action---------------