Bilbo

Here is mine for this month. Struggling to find time at the moment. https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/wind-and-rain-a-brass-trio-1

There are different approaches to tributes, from folks just doing songs by a band to the whole production, dressing up thing. Horses for courses. The whole thing fails to grab me but I am not going to be the target audience so that is irrelevant. Best will depend on what you are expecting. Personally, I'd pay to see cetera doing a dep in a big band whilst sporting the full Simmons get up!

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1451055938' post='2938058'] Bachs 6 cello suites for bass transcription. Will never learn it but looks cool to bust out a few seconds of it! [/quote] I have had these for years. They are great for going back to again and again for reading, technique and particularly bowing.

Roger Glover, Jack Bruce, John Mole, Alphonso Johnson, Mo Foster... Loads, if I am honest.

Well done, y'all.

Pop round mine and spend a year with my cd collection. That'll learn ya!

Nothing from me this month, guys. New job, new venue and Christmas. No time for composing!

Jeff Berlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZVXqw770A

Alphonso Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUTsZ78xIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upDUqCjx6A8 Another Squire special.

This is a Zoom H1. Simplest device, great sound for referencing. Anything live on my Soundcloud page is recorded in the same way. https://m.soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/unit-seven

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1449669702' post='2925795'] I like Tom and Jerry. Does that count? [/quote] No. That's more like Stravinsky. There is plenty of modern Jazz that does not sound like it did 50 years ago but which IS Jazz, as opposed to fusion, Jazz Funk etc. Go find it. You will enjoy the journey!!

Great. Only no-one here has referenced much Jazz These guys are all fusion, jazz funksters. Another 30 years and you will discover real Jazz!!!!

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1449518618' post='2924315'] This x100. I was a bit of a fan boy though in the late 80s- listened to him so much in those days and, I might say, my playing probably suffered as a result. I was all back pickup and staccato notes! I rarely hear him now but I heard this the other day and it moved me so deeply. Simply stunning. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaFTPmp2Pw&feature=youtu.be"]http://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] [/quote] That was beautifully arranged

Respect to him for not pushing it further than is credible. End of Rush? Who knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPtqRjirC6o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1449508460' post='2924185'] I have his back catalog because i thought i was missing out. Listened to it once [/quote] If you have only listened to it once, you are missing a lot. I have been listening to Jaco on and off for 30 years. His touch and phrasing, his ideas, his tone, his concepts - all of it literally set the hares running. He had some lows (his stuff with Brian Melvin, Jon Davis and Birelli Lagrene was all a bit poor) but so much of his stuff 1976 - 1985 was sublime. I remember playing Donna Lee to a sax player and he said 'he's the real deal'. He is not copping licks, he is properly blowing. Word of Mouth, Joni, Weather Report etc etc. Just a massive, massive presence. Anyone who cannot hear the strength of his playing is making choices that are based on a different aesthetic. He was an absolutely unique voice who stands repeated listening decades after the fact. I don't listen to Jaco as a fan boy; I don't like everything he played on by any means. Nevertheless, I just hear him every now and again, shake my head and smile. He was the real thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XauOTo-BKSY

I voted myself into 9th place

I got my second royalty cheque for the book this week. My 7 year effort has so far earned me about £350! They have sold 619 copies!! In truth, I don't mind. I am just thrilled that it is out there.

Your review of mine kind of hit my concept right on the head, Dad. 'That which a tree would sing to itself'.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1448548798' post='2916366'] (p.s. I have voted for both of you in the past)! [/quote] Try not to let it happen again. It will only end in tears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm34SVz2K8 1986

Having been watching the world of bass for over thirty years, I feel qualified to state that there are always innovations and there are always new things happening. What is interesting is the direction of travel in terms of WHERE those innovations can be found. A lot of new ideas are difficult to access in the mainstream as 'innovation' is, more than ever, a niche market. The 'faster, harder, longer' brigade are always there; I call them 'the jugglers', making more and more noise with different techniques, slapping, tapping with increasingly complex patterns, different parts of the body etc etc. It sometimes feels like a bit of freak show (the guy who dresses as a schoolgirl etc) but there are a lot of people with interesting ideas that are grafting away in the corners of the internet or in genres that seldom cross anyone's path accidentally. I think every instrument has aperiod where the innovations are spectacular and fast paced but, as things move forward, the innovations become more nuanced and subtle. What interests me at the momemnt is where the bass is going to find itself in terms of it's use by composers. The whizzy playing is starting to eat itself (I can't watch bass soloists who are just being clever for the sake of impressing other bass players - it is so utterly futile and obvious to the listener. Clever but no artistic merit. What we need is beautiful and in context.