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Some Love For Jimmy Garrison


JSngry

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We worship Trane, love Elvin, and venerate McCoy, but next time you go there, let the bass direct everything else and see where you end up.

It's a veritably...regal place. A palatial expanse of freeness (let's not call it "freedom", because that word is just too damn cheap these days) built from the bottom up.

Sometimes I take it for granted, but these days, taking anything for granted is an invitation to extermination.

Let's not do that.

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Takes muscle to play bass. To play a long fast tune with tone and good intonation takes lots of muscle.

and that's not all

What else?

A self effacing disposition?

An ability to placate people on public transport who might otherwise be irritated by the size and positioning of your instrument in a full car?

An ability to count to four?

A thick skin?

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I have no trouble feeling Garrison, even if I can't always hear him.

Totally agree. Listening to the Coltrane Quartet Implulse box end-to-end recently I was left marvelling at just how much his playing permeated everything. His bass solos (which always seem to have quite a ruminative quality) are always a standout for me too.

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