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One of the better Lockdown offerings...

WDR Big Band featuring Richard Bona, with Vince Mendoza conducting. Vince Mendoza arrangements. A good 90 minutes listening. .

Yeah, terrific album. Nate Phillips plays great on it. Lovely tone as well (as always). Some serious players on it as well.

The Bassist is Nathaniel Phillips. Worth Googling and checking out some of his work/credits. During the 70's and 80's he was quite in demand. He certainly had some chops as well.

Great Bassist, great stories, and another winner from Rick.

Oddly enough, I have just been listening to the Vince Mendoza arrangement of this piece. Sounds great, Andy. A lovely feel and a nice arrangement, also very well played. 👍

Valhalla Supermassive - Reverbs, Delays and Modulation with a some SFX presets. It's free!! Also, no sign ups or emails required. https://valhalladsp.com/shop/reverb/valhalla-supermassive/ EDIT: I've just set up an arpeggiator pattern in a Synth and run through the presets in Valhalla. I must say, it's pretty impressive for something that is a free gift to the community. 👍

Great work Bilbo. I love the album this track is from, probably one of my favourite albums. I remember when it first came out in 93/94 (I think), and I had to do a double take with a few others. UK's very own Chris Hunter was on Alto!

The above has small RAM use as well. About 250 meg, I think. Meaning you can load up the entire Orchestra in one go. This link below has a few DAW templates for the BBCSO, Discovery version. All the tracks and channel routing. https://www.spitfireaudiothepage.com/posts/discover-templates

There was a BBC documentary about 'Yacht Rock' a few months ago, and of course, chock full of great music. Unfortunately, it's not on iPlayer at present. Which is a shame.

I thought Christopher Cross is now labelled under the term 'Yacht Rock', along with a bunch of West Coast groups and artists.? Dan, Boz Scaggs, Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald.

Rick breaking down Jaco...It don't get any better. Thank's for posting. It was great !

Yes, very sad, he will be missed. He was a terrific musician with a great feel. R.I.P This was posted on Facebook. John during his stint with the Morrissey Mullen Band.

A 'Bird' tune that doesn't seem to be in the Charlie Parker Omnibook...

This is very odd. I have just been watching something on YouTube with my oldest boy. I then come here, only to find Dad's opening 90 seconds, would fit that 'something' very nicely as an underscore (especially the Contra-bassoon). That something is called, "The Saga of Noggin the Nog - King of the Nogs".

A great Freebie. Spitfire Audio Labs. It's a Sample playback VST. Download the Labs player and any of the free libraries that you fancy. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/

It's usually about this time, in a thread about British session Bassists of the past, who sometimes played with a pick, that Russ Stableford pops up, Chris.

Yes, you are right. Those TV Orchestra gigs were steady earners back then. Actually, that particular Orchestra had a few of the regular musicians from the busy TV and Film session scene at the time. Agree about The Two Ronnies theme. Here is the full length version.

^^^ The tune started out life on Waterman's solo album before it was used on 'Minder'. Mo Foster played Bass on the Minder session. He has documented this many times, including talking about the Bass he used. A Kramer, I think. EDIT: Here is the Basschat interview 'Rich' did with Mo Foster back in 2012.

Indeed, he was a great player. Dave played on lots of library/production stuff as well TV sessions back in the days of regular Light Entertainment Music. He comes into shot from around 01:25. Here he is with his Burns Bison...

One of my sons also grabbed the other free stuff from NI. A good idea to grab that bundle (all with good upgrade paths). During the summer NI usually have 50% sales, often throwing in a £22 voucher to spend in the NI software store. Worth keeping your eyes for that as well. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bundles/komplete-start/ Another company, 'Spitfire Audio', also have a great set of free libraries for their own free sample player. https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/

Pure live groove...

No light stroking of the strings with WF, he really attacked the notes with confidence. Always sounded like fingers to me. I thought someone on Talkbass contacted him and he replied that he only played finger style? Or maybe, it was another player I'm thinking of...? Certainly a solid, fluid performance, from a player on top of his game at the time