Rob MacKillop Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Is there a Big Stan album devoted to the DB? If not, which album has the most DB on it? Quote
itu Posted October 19 Posted October 19 https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/stanley-clarke-standards/ 2 1 Quote
itu Posted October 21 Posted October 21 @Rob MacKillop check also Tom Kennedy - Just Play! His recordings include standards. This particular record is played with a double bass. In others (Basses Loaded, points of view...) there's electric, too. I think Brian Bromberg has some standards played with a double bass, although he is more known because of his electric (and piccolo) work. 2 Quote
NickA Posted October 22 Posted October 22 "Jazz in the garden". Stan Clark trio. Lots of Hiromi but Stan on double bass throughout. He's one of the greatest double bass players of our time...gets lost beneath his funky slappy alembic antics. 1 Quote
Hellzero Posted October 22 Posted October 22 52 minutes ago, NickA said: "Jazz in the garden". Stan Clark trio. Lots of Hiromi but Stan on double bass throughout. He's one of the greatest double bass players of our time...gets lost beneath his funky slappy alembic antics. Yeah, I forgot this excellent album, I'll listen to it later, after the 3 CDs I've just received... Quote
Hellzero Posted October 22 Posted October 22 (edited) On 19/10/2025 at 19:55, itu said: https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/stanley-clarke-standards/ Saw him live with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al di Meola in an a fully acoustic gig, so Stanley Clarke on double bass all concert long, something like 30 years ago, and it ended up with speed race on School Days. Amazing how fast he coud play this tune on double bass ... using the chords for the main riff. Edited October 22 by Hellzero Bloody spelling 3 Quote
Rob MacKillop Posted October 22 Author Posted October 22 Yes, I recognise what he did for the electric bass, but like he said he played it as a toy. On the acoustic upright…something else! 1 Quote
Hellzero Posted October 22 Posted October 22 Beware that the album called The Stanley Clarke Band (on the right) is often referred on the Internet as him playing acoustic double bass, but he's only playing electric bass on this one. The only one where he's playing acoustic double bass is Jazz in the Garden (on the left). That said both albums are worth listening to. 1 Quote
jazzyvee Posted October 22 Posted October 22 For pure double bass try ' The Griffith Park Collection' it's a superb album. 3 Quote
Passinwind Posted October 22 Posted October 22 On 18/10/2025 at 12:07, Rob MacKillop said: Is there a Big Stan album devoted to the DB? If not, which album has the most DB on it? I've seen no mention of perhaps the most obvious choice, albeit not under SC's name: Light As A Feather, by the original Return To Forever lineup. 2 Quote
Hellzero Posted October 22 Posted October 22 5 minutes ago, Passinwind said: I've seen no mention of perhaps the most obvious choice, albeit not under SC's name: Light As A Feather, by the original Return To Forever lineup. It was so obvious that I think we all forgot that one... Thanks for the reminder. 👍🏻👌🏻 3 Quote
NickA Posted October 22 Posted October 22 Light as a feather .. have it on cassette tape, played to extinction in the mid 80s. That and Hejira my gateways into Jazz from prog. 3 Quote
Beer of the Bass Posted October 23 Posted October 23 20 hours ago, Passinwind said: I've seen no mention of perhaps the most obvious choice, albeit not under SC's name: Light As A Feather, by the original Return To Forever lineup. I *almost* posted about it, but then I thought it was surely the one album that anyone talking about his double bass playing would already know. It's a great one, he's all over the bass and it certainly changed the whole business of latin jazz bass playing, but the focus of the group setting steers away from some of the excesses he might go for on solo albums. 2 Quote
NickA Posted October 23 Posted October 23 Just put jazz in the garden on ..after a solo home practice session with iReal What impresses me is that Stan's in time and in tune, sometimes playing in perfect unison with a complicated piano melody, but also exercises great restraint, playing the same apparently simple bass line over and over without straying into unnecessary complexity. It's very skilled and "grown up" playing. I fear my own playing fails on both counts! Too many notes and not at the right time! Also listened to VSOP today and remembered how good Ron Carter can be. 3 Quote
Hellzero Posted October 24 Posted October 24 Listened to Standards yesterday for the first time, a great record with an extraordinary Patrice Rushen on piano: I didn't know she was such a talented player. Salt Peanuts took me a while to recognise, but I ended up loving it and their very Latin cover of Take Five is amazing. What gifted musicians the three of them are. 1 Quote
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