Meet Andrea Fascetti – HI MY FRIENDS! TODAY ENDS A LONG RUN THAT BEGAN IN NOVEMBER 2008 WITH CHORD TONES EXERCISES. I HOPE YOU LIKED THESE...
Meet Igor Saavedra – If the word Dilettante sounds strange to some of you, here is a classical dictionary definition: “Dilettante comes from the Italian word...
Meet Alex Wilkerson – Poinciana – Ahmad Jamal This month’s transcription is Israel Crosby’s bass line from Poinciana off Ahmad Jamal’s album: At the Pershing But...
Meet Darren Frate – Hey everyone I hope you stayed busy working on some of the altered tuning major chord voicings we did last month. This...
Meet Steve Gregory – The other day I took some time to listen to different live recordings of the song “From the Inside Out” by Hillsong...
The Doctor Is In… DeQuervain’s Syndrome Hello and welcome back. I took a month or so off but am back with a column about DeQuervain’s Syndrome,...
Review by Jake Kot – Aspiration by Grant Stinnett… The world of “Solo” bass has become an interesting and most assuredly challenging arena. The effort to...
Review by Jake Kot Al Di Meola’s latest release, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody, reminds us that beyond his well known virtuosity, Al can organize a project...
CD Review by Raul Amador – Let’s face it, making a CD that is entirely instrumental now days is a crap-shoot when it comes to public...
Meet Jaime Vazquez – Hello my friends! Thanks for all your support! I appreciate it! For this month I got something very cool for you. Did...
Meet Andreas Farmakalidis – Jeff Berlin is the living proof that the electric bass can be a viable jazz instrument. His melodic phrasing and soloing is...
Aguilar Tone Hammer Preamp… This box could also be named “soundman defeater” or, alternately “front -of -house-engineer-helper”. The Tone Hammer is a one of the more...
Meet Igor Saavedra – It’s incredibly interesting how two persons who are studying and putting into practice the same topics, at the same time, might be...
Meet Lucas Pickford – I chose this particular Marcus Miller bass solo because it is a veritable encyclopedia of Miller’s most used but never abused signature...
Art Vista Productions is presenting a new bass sample library series, GrooveMaster – the Tony Newton Bass Libraries, featuring Antonio “Tony” Newton, the legendary Motown bassman. The series includes...