Bilbo

Some more Pastorius but this is Felix! From the 2013 Yellowjackets album, 'A Rise In The Road'. this is the tune 'When The Lady Dances'. Great little tune that has some interesting harmonic shifts but the groove sits nicely. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/when-the-lady-dances-yellowjackets/

As promised, the complete bass part for the 11:44 minute version if 'First Snow' from the 2002 Dave Holland Big Band album, 'What Goes Around'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/first-snow-big-band-version-dave-holland-big-band/

I was away over Christmas and then spent a particularly long time on another 12 minute Dave Holland Big Band tune. Should be up tonight. Thanks for your patience.

I probably did, Lloyd. There are a couple of dozen AJ transcriptions up there now, all equally impossible to play. How are you doing, my friend?

Complete fluke, the complete bass part to 'Fato Consumado' from the 1976 Djavan album, 'A Voz, O Violão, A Música De Djavan'. The bass player is Arthur Maia's uncle, Luizão Maia. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/fato-consumado-djavan/

Another from the 2001 Gilberto Gil video 'Acoustico' (MTV Unplugged) - 'A Paz' with the late Arthur Maia on acoustic bass guitar. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/a-paz-gilberto-gil/

There are so many Flim tunes I would love to get down but he is all over the place and it takes ages to even get close 😃

Tough one to crack, the complete Jimmy Johnson performance on the tune 'Ojai' from the 1986 Wayne Johnson Trio album, 'Grasshopper'. I got this when it came out because I had read about this guitar player in the Guitar Player magazine when it used to be good and full of top drawer players an not hair metal poseurs. he had a double-neck 6/12 and Flim had one of the first 5-string basses I had ever seen. More to the point, he used the whole damn instrument in a way that most Rock player would never do. One of my top 4 influences. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/ojai-wayne-johnson-trio/

I had another mad episode and took on the complete 17:24 bass performance on 'What Goes Around' by the Dave Holland Big Band. Some real challenges but the main thing is the alternating 6:4 and 5:4 bars throughout. I think they lost it at one point and had to adjust but I may be wrong and just lost track of the 'one'. Don't print it off. It is 16 pages long and took me days. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/what-goes-around-dave-holland-big-band/

John Illsley's bass part to the tune 'Down To The Waterline' form the 1978 Dire Straits debut. Not too difficult but one mad fill at the end. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/down-to-the-waterline-dire-straits/

I revisited this one today. This version has the shout chorus and the ending. It is also counted differently to the previous version I posted on here. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/blues-connotation-head-and-end-only-steve-kahn/

As simple as it gets, the tune is a one chorus melody rendering of 'My Foolish Heart' from the 1992 Victor Goines album, 'Genesis'. The bass player is Christopher Thomas who plays it as straight as they come. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/my-foolish-heart-victor-goines/

There is a thread on here somewhere referencing solo bass albums and I checked a load of them out. This album was the first time I have knowingly heard this guy (although, looking at his CV, I have probably heard him somewhere along the way). The tune is by Cuban folk artist Silvio Rodriguez and this is the complete transcription of the solo bass of Anders Jormin. The whole thing is a weird out of time vibe about it and you can take real liberties with the tempo throughout and it was all sound great. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/oleo-de-mujer-con-sombrero-anders-jormin/

Ella always sounds great and this is pretty cool but have you heard the Marsalis version with Jon Hendriks (same record as Winter Wonderland)?

Something seasonal - the complete Reginald Veal bass part for the tune 'Winter Wonderland' from the 1989 Wynton Marsalis album, 'Crescent City Christmas Card'. For me, this is the best Christmas album ever recorded. Steeped in New Orleans traditions, it manages to avoid that crass saccharin sweetness that most Christmas albums have. This record is brimming with Joy but remains classy and profound. Veal is such a deep player; he can do no wrong by me. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/winter-wonderland-wynton-marsalis/