Frank Blank

Liking Renku too...

Very much liking The Bad Plus, a Jazz Kraftwerk cover? Superb...

Big fan of E.S.T. but new to GoGo Penguin but digging this... ... in fact digging them generally.

There is a similar six page thread on Talk Bass. Here are their recommendations... Charlie Haden - Beyond The Missouri Sky Ron Carter - Miles Smiles, E.S.P. Ray Brown - Night Train Scott LaFaro - Sunday At The Village Vanguard Jimmy Garrison - A Love Supreme Rufus Reid - From Kirk To Nat John Patitucci - Chick Corea Akoustic Band Christian McBride - Finger Painting Marc Johnson - 2x4 Mark Dresser - Aquifer John Hebert - Renku Willie Dixon - The Big Three Edgar Meyer - Bach Suites, Uncommon Ritual Steve Swallow - Flight (Bremen) 1961 Michael Bisio - Long Night Waiting Drew Gress, - I, Claudia Scott LaFaro - The Arrival of Victor Feldman Charlie Hayden - Nightfall, Gitane, The Golden Number, Closeness, Charlie, The Shape of Jazz to Come Eddie Gomez - If Summer Had Its Ghosts Brian Bromberg - Wood Bob Magnusson with Art Pepper Larry Gray - Power Trio:Live in Chicago Alan Broadbent - Round Midnight. Paul Chambers - Miles Davis at the Blackhawk, Blue Trane Wilbur Ware - A Night at the Village Vanguard. Jimmy Blanton - Ellington Duets Scott LaFaro - Waltz for Debby, Portrait in Jazz Charlie Haden - The Shape of Jazz to Come Miroslav Vitous - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Carlos Henriquez - The Magic Hour Larry Grenadier - Live at the Vanguard, Back at the Vanguard (Art of the Trio vol. 2 and 4) Dave Holland - Extended Play, Overtime Lynn Seaton - Puttin' On the Ritz John Patitucci - One More Angel Mingus / Ellington - Money Jungle Scott LaFaro - Sunday at the village vanguard Steve Lacy Trio - The Holy La Bill Frisell - Gone, Just Like A Train Anything by NHØP Oscar Pettiford on "Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington Paul Chambers - Blue Train Ray Brown - Night Train w/ Oscar Peterson John Clayton - When I Look In Your Eyes w/ Diana Krall Terry Plumeri - Blue and Green (Terry Plumeri) Eddie Gomez - The Mad Hatter (Chick Corea) George Mraz - Arcade (John Abercrombie) Ratzo Harris on Gimcracks and gewgaws Dwayne Dolphin - Portrait of Adrian Patitucci - Through My Eyes by Michel Camilo Sam Jones - Live At The Jazz Workshop (Barry Harris) Ron Carter - Speak Like A Child Jimmy Garrison - Puttin' It Together (Elvin) Bob Cranshaw - Our Man In Jazz (Sonny Rollins) Henry Grimes and Art Davis - McCoy Tyner's Reaching Fourth and Inception. Dave Holland - From The Soul (Joe Lovano) NHØP - The Apartment (Dexter Gordon) Oscar Pettiford - Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique Ugonna Okegwo - Leon Parker’s Above and Below Stanley Cowell Trio - Illusion Suite

...which is exactly why I'm thinking about a pair of K12.2s

Yay, welcome to the QSC (Quite Small Club).

I use my QSC as a monitor at small or large gigs, at smaller gigs withoutPA support it can be used as backline. my entire rig, regardless of venue size, is bass > Stomp > QSC.

I'm at this moment listening to Bass on Top by Paul Chambers, will check out his stuff with Miles and BH album, cheers Sir.

I've been listening to some Jazz from double bass players lately so could anyone recommend me any such albums, favourites, classics, whatever you like...

Definitely has the whiff of guitar to it but as @Jack rightly points out, it does have lights.

I've just spent an inordinate amount of time looking at this ...

No. All I have is the above rig. If you want to try mine out just say and we can sort something out.

I have emailed both RCF and QSC several times with many questions and have always received prompt and excellent replies.

I play through a HX Stomp into a QSC K12.2, much as I like playing around with the Stomp I mainly use it for a touch of compression and really small eq tweaks. What always surprises me is just how superb the basses sound plugged directly into the QSC. I spend decades looking for bass amps that reproduced the sound of the bass without adding or subtracting any colour. Now I realise I’m almost certainly an exception here but when I buy a bass, second hand or new, I don’t amplify it, I listen to it acoustically, when I like a bass and subsequently buy it, that acoustic sound is what I’m looking for when amplified, uncoloured, just (obviously) louder! The QSC is the only amplification solution that has ever given me this. I use The Stomps sims sometimes with my short scale fretless simply to get a tone near to that of an upright bass but again I find it difficult to beat the sound that I get directly plugged in. The Stomp has so many variables to tweak that I’ve barely scratched the surface but then the quality of the sounds just plugging in the basses directly is so good I’m in no hurry!

I’ve never played a bass with a light wood fingerboard. I was just looking at the three current basses in the rack, both the ACGs have fingerboard made of extremely dark ebony. The exception is the RA Mouse, which is various shades of mid-brown but gets a pass as it’s simply a thing of immense beauty. As ridiculous as I know it is, I suppose function should trump form, I don’t even consider a bass if it has a light fingerboard, no idea why. I’m not just ambivalent about them, they actually repulse me a little bit, maybe because the light wood reminds me of the humiliating weekly torture of the school gym... ...issues. 😳

It’s a new trend, teacupping.

I’d soak them in luke warm tea while I waited though.

Go on...

It'll be at The Bash...