Which Album?

[vbance]

Diana Krall - Love Scenes

[Bagman]

Paul Chambers on Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" , I don't play double bass but this album and Chambers playing is magic / spiritual / the business / my earliest musical memory 

 

Electric Bass probably Jerry Jemmott on "Completely Well" B.B.King 

the first tune is called "So Excited" and it's an exciting bassline for sure 

Joyous Music here 

[TrevorR]

I’d go for Incognito’s Tribes, Vibes and Scribes. Step forward Mr Randy Hope-Taylor.

[Hellzero]

Basse Contre Basse by Alain Caron and Michel Donato is the album that always makes want to listen to bass.

[Nail Soup]

On 10/01/2026 at 17:15, upside downer said:

Metal Box by PiL. Simple yet inventive playing from Jah Wobble (and, on one track, Keith Levene)

Good call!

[Nail Soup]

Great question OP!

 

I'll go for these - one plus couple of runner ups. However they are all great albums in general.

 

Winner: The Fall - Perverted by Language (Steve Hanley)... such a great bass sound, driving the whole band.

 

Runners up:

Violent Femmes self-titled debut (Brian Ritchie) - on paper he is overplaying and it should have ruined the album... but no it made it even greater!

Stranglers - Any of the first 4 but I'll go Black and White.

 

[paul_5]

I’ve not seen this mentioned yet, so I’d also like to nominate my 2nd place (by a very small nose) album - Led Zeppelin II. Listening to John Paul Jones’ genius on this album taught me LOADS about not just being a bass player, but about being a musician who plays the bass.

[Leonard Smalls]

Sarsippius Ark -Infectious Grooves

 

Serious Rob Trujillo-ness!

[super al]

So many great albums with great bass on them and many I'll check out.

 

If I go right back to the start of my bass journey, Level 42 got me interested in the bass guitar but from there I remember buying three albums quite close together around '87/'88, three albums with great bass playing from the '70s.

 

I bought Heavy Weather and Black Market by Weather Report but the one album I would listen to the most was Stanley Clarke's School Days. It's not just the title track, the whole album grabbed me by the doo doo and I would listen to it over and over again. I was into Stanley's music for a while there, it was a bit hit n miss but School Days, for a mostly instrumental album, BOOM! Just gorgeous.

[Mudpup]

Queensryche - Empire 

 

(or maybe Simple Minds - New Gold Dream)

[AlexDelores]

Because of the times - Kings of Leon

 

Not an obvious ‘bass in ya face’ type thing but such melodic lines, with really cool rhythmic nuances. I think he’s a seriously underrated rock bass player. 
 

And, that and their second album were released at a time in my life that they influenced me deeply and made me want to be a better player! 

[Musicman666]

hejirah by joni mitchell is as good as it gets ...jaco only played on four tracks but that's enough to seal the deal for me. 

[cetera]

Hard to choose. If not something by early Chicago with Peter Cetera or 70's Doobies with Tiran Porter I think it would have to be:

 

Guy Pratt on the phenomenal 'Toy Matinee' album:

 

 

[Owen]

1 hour ago, Musicman666 said:

hejirah by joni mitchell is as good as it gets ...jaco only played on four tracks but that's enough to seal the deal for me. 

If 4 tracks are (muddle muddle) good enough for Jaco (confusion) they are good enough for us (quizzical look into the middle distance).

[super al]

4 hours ago, Owen said:

If 4 tracks are (muddle muddle) good enough for Jaco (confusion) they are good enough for us (quizzical look into the middle distance).

I'm sure I've seen a photo of him playing 5 tracks

[BassTractor]

51 minutes ago, super al said:

I'm sure I've seen a photo of him playing 5 tracks

Indeed.
I have the 10-track  "J.O.N.5" edition in my collection: