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Frank Blank

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Obvious place to start would be ‘kind of blue’ by Miles Davis, in fact I’d recommend any Miles album with Paul Chambers on bass, but that’s just me.

Billie Holliday’s ‘songs for distingue lovers’ is a great album too, as the mix is great, and it’s not difficult to hear what the bass is doing and how it works with everything else.

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Anything with Christian McBride is well worth hearing. There are s couple of recent recordings with him playing with Chick Corea that are excellent, but his own bands are also really good.

 

The Bad Plus are also great, lots of stuff on YouTube...

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10 hours ago, petebassist said:

If you like a bit of new stuff, Cross-Platform Interchange by Misha Mullov Abbado has some lovely double bass tones.

Plus 1 - I’ve got this album!

Also Avashai Cohen - Gently disturbed. There are plenty of others I haven’t listened to yet.

Some good recommendations above that I will try and familiarise myself with.

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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
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17 hours ago, Kevsy71 said:

A Love Supreme  - John Coltrane (Jimmy Garrison)

Good choice. I really like his playing on all those Coltrane Impulse albums - Crescent also has some really nice stuff, as does the recently 'rediscovered' Coltrane album, Both Directions At Once 

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I always loved Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus. I'm no Jazz expert but it always seemed to me that you could really feel the effect of the bass player being the band leader - it has a certain stomp to it.

Not a bass player led album, but Ron Carter's bass playing on Jim Hall's Concierto is a delight.

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2 hours ago, Rexel Matador said:

I always loved Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus. I'm no Jazz expert but it always seemed to me that you could really feel the effect of the bass player being the band leader - it has a certain stomp to it.

Not a bass player led album, but Ron Carter's bass playing on Jim Hall's Concierto is a delight.

I'll look into Pithecanthropus Erectus, why Mingus has never really appeared on my radar before I don't know, thats a stupid statement, of course he's a player I know about but I haven't listened to as much.

Enjoying Concierto very much, cheers.

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12 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

I'll look into Pithecanthropus Erectus, why Mingus has never really appeared on my radar before I don't know, thats a stupid statement, of course he's a player I know about but I haven't listened to as much.

 

Excellent album.

You may find this of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_There_to_Say%3F

As there's no chording instrument the bass stands out clearly.

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1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

Enjoying Concierto very much, cheers.

I'm glad to hear it - I discovered it by accident a long time ago. The opening track is one of my favourite songs of all time, jazz or otherwise.

My girlfriend used to have it set as the alarm on her phone, and despite having been wrenched awake to those opening notes every weekday for about three months, I'm still not tired of it. That slide Carter does in the opening bar is just perfect.

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44 minutes ago, Rexel Matador said:

I'm glad to hear it - I discovered it by accident a long time ago. The opening track is one of my favourite songs of all time, jazz or otherwise.

My girlfriend used to have it set as the alarm on her phone, and despite having been wrenched awake to those opening notes every weekday for about three months, I'm still not tired of it. That slide Carter does in the opening bar is just perfect.

I have the opening bars of Such Sweet Thunder as my ringtone, love it.

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