Bilbo

Of course it was a '78 Stingray not a '79!! Can't you hear the difference????!!!

I still get carrot comments.....

A wonderfully eclectic question, James. be prepared for 1,000 replies!! I recommend Israel Lopez Valdez (Cachao), Andy Gonsalez, Bobby Rodriguez, Carlos Del Puerto and Sal Cuevas (Fania All Stars) for Latin bass For Jazz, try Ray Brown (anything with Oscar Peterson) Paul Chambers - Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis) or Bass on Top (Paul Chambers) Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um Scott LaFaro - Bill Evans Trio - Sunday Night at the VIllage Vanguard or Waltz for Debby Ron Carter - Miles Davis - Miles Smiles Dave Holland - try One's All, a solo bass recording John Pattitucci - Chick Corea's Akoustic Band anything featuring Christian McBride, Avishai Cohen, Marc Johnson, Oscar Pettiford, Miroslav Vitous Rockabilly and Blues - you'll have to ask someone else!!!

'Funkifying the Clave' is a lot more about funk than it is aboue clave It is useful but, having spent time with it myself many moons ago, I have hardly ever used anything I got from it in a real worl situation!! As I said, it is a frustrating genre becasue you cannot find the people you need to make the music happen. The genre is a rich one, undoubtedly, but, like CUban music, it seems to be one that requires you to live where the music is.

Anthony Jackson rarely solos but when he does, his work is exquisite.

Practice. It is as simple as that. If you are inexperienced as a soloist, you will SOUND like you are inexperienced as a soloist. I have lived with soloing for 30 years and still fail more often than I succeed. You need to know the harmony of the tunes you are soloing on inside out and then, once that is internalised, you start thinking melodically and execute your ideas. It's as simple and as complicated as that!!

Most people know I am a staunch advocate but I just wanted to add that I MUCH prefer to read dots off PAPER! Computer screens and ipads etc are never big enough and turning pages is difficult etc. Old fashioned paper, every time!!

To be fair, I wouldn't know what to do to solo over SOTW!!

This and this - it will, of course, be necessary for me to burn my house down and move to a narrow boat....

Are there ANY full-time bands anymore?

A perfectly legitimate observation, Kev! First rule of playing live: play it louder and faster.

Russ Morgan is the real deal. A Jazz drummer that understands the music and the musicality required to play it.

Recorded by an audience member in May, this is the Kevin Flanagan/Chris Ingham Quartet with Fagan's Walk Between the Raindrops. Just enough footage of me to see that I am overweight and have a sloppy technique http://youtu.be/DkleL6PnhWM

Thanks, guys!! I am willing to defer to my co-winner in terms of selecting a new image, if that helps.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1442918294' post='2870453'] What a pointless thread. [/quote] Yeah - we don't want one of them on Basschat....

You have learned a valuable lesson. The bloke you sold it to is a w*nker.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443605148' post='2876079'] You need to broaden the range of music you're prepared to play. [/quote] So Jazz, Blues, Pop, Funk, Big Band and Latin not a wide enough selection, then?

I had 120 gigs in one year and I was living in the same place!! It has gone down every years since. I guess I am going to have to set up my own gigs from here on and be the bloke who books everyone else. PS the November gig is on electric!!

I did a gig with John Parricelli last Sunday and that is it. One more gig in the diary for November (which I have arranged) and then nothing. 'Get a double bass and you will get loads more gigs', they said. Clearly not.

I am going to attack my bridge with a needle file this weekend as my action seems to be about four times higher than anyone else in the world!!!! No double bass gigs in the book this side of Christmas so if it all goes pear-shaped, I have time to get an adjustable bridge fitted!!!

I don't think it matters, if I am honest. I probably get as many listens through Soundcloud itself as I do through here. Nothing I have done here is going to win a Grammy. Leave it be, I say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JNRkEkx6HQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJi7V9rHxz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4EtzZB4AIM There is a version by John Abercrombie on his live trio recording with Marc Johnson and Peter Erskine that takes the tune far out. These versions all show the different perspectives each player can have on the same tune.

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[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1443452617' post='2874806'] Moondance. I'll get me coat.. [/quote] Moondance is what we call a 'pop standard' which is shorthand for a diabolical turd that has nothing to do with Jazz.

Practice the material the way you will be playing it, be that standing or sitting. Anthony Jackson has always played sitting down and, if I am not mistaken, without as strap. Works for his gigs although I can't see it working for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers!!