Frank Blank Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 17 hours ago, GuyR said: Anything featuring Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. A perfect example is "Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag" from "the eternal traveller" It is my favourite passage of music featuring a bass. I am loving this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 This is one of my favourite bits of acoustic bass in jazz, with plenty flute smeared liberally all over it... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Oh yeah... jazz flute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyd Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 This thread contains some great music, but given the OP's specific request for foundations to learn walking bass, then I reckon Frank's list is the place to start before exploring some of the more recent music. I'd add that most of the albums on Blue Note from about 1951-1963 will have tunes that are in the same style, and the recordings themselves are very good with clear bass. Once you get into the mid-60s, Miles's 2nd Quintet and John Coltrane Quartet took a lot of jazz into the 'modern' era. These lineups produced my favourite music, but in terms of learning walking bass they're a bit further away from "entry level", especially albums like Miles Smiles and A Love Supreme. For history and lots of written snippets, John Goldsby's The Jazz Bass Book is well worth a read. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 8 minutes ago, tinyd said: This thread contains some great music, but given the OP's specific request for foundations to learn walking bass, then I reckon Frank's list is the place to start before exploring some of the more recent music. I'd add that most of the albums on Blue Note from about 1951-1963 will have tunes that are in the same style, and the recordings themselves are very good with clear bass. Once you get into the mid-60s, Miles's 2nd Quintet and John Coltrane Quartet took a lot of jazz into the 'modern' era. These lineups produced my favourite music, but in terms of learning walking bass they're a bit further away from "entry level", especially albums like Miles Smiles and A Love Supreme. For history and lots of written snippets, John Goldsby's The Jazz Bass Book is well worth a read. Cheers - the Goldsby book is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 9 hours ago, tedmanzie said: I would be very happy with these on my desert island 🏝️ > Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby John Coltrane - Giant Steps John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach - Money Jungle Grant Green - Matador Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ Of Don Patterson* * not famous like the others but a personal favourite! marvel at the way Don plays fantastic walking bass with his left hand while improvising on his organ with his right 😜 How I forgot Money Jungle, Everybody Digs Bill Evans and Waltz For Debbie I don’t know! I also forgot to mention anything by The Modern Jazz Quartet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyR Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 16 hours ago, Frank Blank said: I am loving this! I had never heard this version. It’s different to the album track which has no guitar and a more ethereal type of sound. But it is lovely, thanks for posting 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Any Thelonious Monk reccomendations? Just listened to the first album that was on Spotify (Monk) which was great, but with 53 studio albums and about 30 compilations to pick from on Spotify, it's hard to know where to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, Graham said: Any Thelonious Monk reccomendations? Just listened to the first album that was on Spotify (Monk) which was great, but with 53 studio albums and about 30 compilations to pick from on Spotify, it's hard to know where to start. This is a decent guide. Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 & 2 along with Brilliant Corners are my faves. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) Maybe not pure jazz but check out Pat Metheney's Bright Size Life (Pastorius on bass), although there's usually something good on most of the albums he released on ECM from mid 70's to early 80's. Edited January 9, 2019 by KevB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 On 08/01/2019 at 12:12, dlloyd said: Django - Joe Pass I'd add in Joe Pass' Virtuoso 1 & 2 albums even though they patently don't meet the criteria (they are solo guitar albums - no bass, double OR electric!). Or put another way, ideal jazz standard bass karaoke albums to play along with and see how your emerging skills are getting on... 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) Another Guitar album worth checking out.... Wes Montgomery, super cool swinging. Edited January 9, 2019 by lowdown 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Frank Blank said: This is a decent guide. Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 & 2 along with Brilliant Corners are my faves. I'm listening to Genius Of Modern Music 1 now, it's astonishing that these were his first compositions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Graham said: I'm listening to Genius Of Modern Music 1 now, it's astonishing that these were his first compositions He was, to say the least, an outlier. Nothing like him before, nothing since. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyd Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 The Miles Davis Prestige albums (Cookin', Workin', Steamin', Relaxin') are a fantastic set of standards as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Anything with Paul Chambers on will give you endless examples of walking bass lines. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 This, from Hiromi's Time Control album, has a fine example of modal walking bass... Some older more stick-in-the-mud jazzers would say "it's not jazz, it's fusion" to which I say Get hip, daddy-o! Next y'all will be telling me there's an actual difference between Djent and Thrash metal 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I'm going to go out on a limb a bit here - if you saw this browsing through a record store you would probably just keep on browsing right? hold it right there! this is sublime Don Thompson on bass and Ed Bickert on guitar doing amazing things while pat metheny was still running around in short trousers https://www.allmusic.com/album/thinking-about-you-mw0000006499 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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