Hello bass players and fans of bass playing!  Welcome to Groove Wars!

I hope that you can enjoy this and learn a lot about great BASS LINES!

This month, I continue to do it just for fun! So, here’s the groove battle between “All Blues” and “A Night In Tunisia.”  Both compositions are great and classic jazz standards.  So, get ready!   This is a Blues/Med. Afro bass battle.  YOU DECIDE! Which one is the best?

Artist: Miles Davis
Composer: Miles Davis
Song: “All Blues” (1959)
Bass Player: Paul Chambers
Album: Kind of Blue

Versus

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Composer: Dizzy Gillespie
Song: “A Night In Tunisia”(1942)
Bass Players: Benny Booker

Fig. 1 – The main groove for “All Blues.”

Fig. 2 – The main groove for “A Night In Tunisia.”