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The number of great Bassists I left out far exceeds the number included.
When I started this project (long before I first heard of Organissimo or its BFT) I thought it would be easy to select the 25 greatest Jazz Bassists. How extremely naive of me.
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The cuts for Disc 2 are:
Album: Song
Changes And Things: Sam's Things
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1: Turnpike (alternate take)
Bebop Revisited Volume 1: Mischievous Lady
The Chicago Sound: Be-Ware
Jazz Sounds Of Africa: La Ibkey
Cecil Payne: Scotch and Milk : Scotch and Milk
Clifford Brown: Study in Brown: George's Dilemma
Chocolate Cadillac: Chocolate Cadillac
Leroy Walks Again!: Motherland
The Mastersounds: I Could Write A Book
Sonority: Bella Rosa
Passing Thoughts: Hotel Le Hot
Soloflights: Ode To Jimi
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The Bassists selected for Disc 2 are:
Sam Jones: Jazz Bassist and cellist.
Percy Heath: Impeccable time and ecellent note choices mark this cornerstone of Jazz history.
Red Callender: Charles Mingus' first Bass instructor
Wilbur Ware: While others of his era were focused on Jimmy Blanton's harmonic and melodic innovations, Wilbur was expanding Blanton's rhythmic style.
Ahmed Abdul-Malik: Ahmed Abdul-Malik was one of the first musicians to integrate non-Western musical elements into jazz
John Ore: Monk's Bassist from 1960 to 1963. While playing with Jazz's best he studied Bass at Juilliard.
George Morrow: Participated in the some of the classic recordings of modern Jazz with Clifford Brown and Max Roach. After leaving Max Roach he ended up in the house band at Disney World.
Leroy Vinnegar: Every Bassist looks to Leroy Vinnegar's walking lines. Leroy worked with all of teh West Coast Jazz Greats
Monk Montgomery: This brother to Wes Montgomery was the first Bassist to play Jazz seriously on the Fender Bass.
Curtis Counce: The Bop era's must underrated Bassist.
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The Cuts:
Album: Song
Blue Clarinet Stomp: Bully Fiddle Blues
Duke Ellington 1929: Freeze And Melt
John Kirby: Zooming At The Zombie
Count Basie: 1936-1938 : Roseland Shuffle
Bob Haggart: Portrait Of Bix Featuring Tom Pletcher: Peg O' My Heart
Bowin', Singin' Sam: Deuces Wild
The Judge At His Best: What Am I Here For
Duke Ellington: Solos, Duets & Trios : Sophisticated Lady (Take 1)
Albert Ammons : 1946-1948: Hiroshima
The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet: Chasin' the Bass
Art Blakey: A Night At Birdland, Volume 1: A Night in Tunisia
Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Miles Davis: Jazz Showcase: Blue Haze
Don Elliott: Double Trumpet Doings: Dominick Seventh
Bebop Revisited Volume 1: Boomsie
Live at Scullers Jazz Club: Whirlybird
Jazz In Hollywood: Snootie Little Cutie
Mosaic Select 5_ Paul Chambers (Disc 2): Four Strings
Olio: Dakar
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After a lot of mental torture I ended up with this list of bassists for disc 1:
Bill Johnson: Father of Slap Bass
Wellman Braud: Showed that the Bass could replace the tuba on a recording
John Kirby: Doubled on tuba and The Bass
Walter Page: One of the first Bassists to also be a successful Band Leader
Bob Haggart: Wrote the first Jazz-Bass method book
Slam Stewart: His ability to play arco and scat an octave above
Milt Hinton: The most recorded bassist in jazz history
Jimmy Blanton: First Bassist to take a melodic approach to soloing on the bass
Isreal Crosby: An underrated but brilliant bassist
Oscar Pettiford: First Bassist to truly explore bebop. Incredible 8th note walking lines as well as solos that would sound good on any instrument.
Curly Russell: Played with all the major Bebop greats.
Gene Ramey: A student of Walter Page and played equally well in Bebop and Swing bands.
Tommy Potter: Made his mark backing up Charlie Parker.
Eddie Safranski: A very popular Bassist during the transition from Swing to Bebop.
Chubby Jackson: Played a 5 string Bass with a high C string.
Ray Brown: RAY BROWN! Nothing more needs to be said.
Harry Babasin: The Bear. One of the first fusion Bassists, bringing together Jazz and Brazilian music.
Paul Chambers: The most influential Bassist. Soloist, solid rhythm section member. Amazing!
Doug Watkins: Solid walker and soloist. Worked with many of the greats.
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Is it just the dirty old man in me or does the girl on the far left REALLY like her Bass?
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I've worked through the last hanful of my birthdays too.
It's alright. . . unless the work crew finds out it's your b-day!
Have many happy returns!
As per the tradition, I brought treats.
I brought in 24 of the biggest globs of fried dough I'd ever seen. I work in a section with 5 other people. Fourteen minutes later they were all gone. I got birthday wishes from people I haven't seen since the last time I brought in doughnuts.
Where does one buy a donut detector?
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I will post the actual answers this weekend because I'm working FAR too many hours right now. Sorry for the delay.
However, for now, here is the list of Bassists I originally selected:
Bill Johnson
Wellman Braud
John Kirby
Walter Page
Bob Haggart
Slam Stewart
Milt Hinton
Jimmy Blanton
Isreal Crosby
Oscar Pettiford
Curly Russell
Gene Ramey
Tommy Potter
Eddie Safranski
Chubby Jackson
Ray Brown
Harry Babasin
Paul Chambers
Doug Watkins
Sam Jones
Percy Heath
Charles Mingus
Red Callender
Wilbur Ware
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
John Ore
Larry Gales
Jymie Merritt
George Morrow
George Duvivier
Red Mitchell
Leroy Vinnegar
Monty Buwig
Monk Montgomery
Joe Mondragon
Curtis Counce
Albert Stinson
Joe Comfort
Scott Lafaro
Jimmy Garrison
Bob Cranshaw
Butch Warren
Larry Ridley
Charlie Haden
Ron Carter
Richard Davis
Eugene Wright
Chuck Isreals
Gary Peacock
Eddie Gomez
Marc Johnson
Dave Holland
Peter Ind
Wilbur Little
Rufus Reid
Lynn Seaton
To avoid moving into a third disc (actually 3rd and 4th) I eliminated many of them. I will try to explain why each was selected as well.
Oh yeah, and I'll identify all the cuts.
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Thank you all!
I'm working
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Sure, send me a PM with your address.
Bill
i'm back from a long business trip and i missed this one. any chance to have it?thanks in advance
Marcus
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I've been trying to hold my comments until all CDs have been recieved. However, with only one outstanding I'm going to break my silence.
I'm impressed at the number of correct answers. I'm amused by some of the wrong ones.
The cat is out of the bag as far as the theme goes (its was obvious to many before the discs were mailed). Its all about bassists.
The bassists were selected before the tracks. Many great bassists were cut because a 4-disc BFT (I suspect) would have been frowned upon. One track was selected for its historical significance. Others because they were little known (I thought) sessions by that bassist. Yet others because I liked them.
More later.
Bill
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There is a theme to BFT #29. Correct identification of the theme will result in additional points which can be redeemed for lovely prizes.
Discs 2 is merely the overflow from disc 1 and should not be listened to as a distinct entity.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
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There is a theme to BFT #29. Correct identification of the theme will result in additional points which can be redeemed for lovely prizes.
Discs 2 is merely the overflow from disc 1 and should not be listened to as a distinct entity.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
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MP3s are located here.
I will be unavailable until Sunday night so if there is a problem with the link please send me a PM and leave a note here.
Thanks,
Bill
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U.S. discs left this morning. I guess it should have been sooner since the discs to Germany have arrived.
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That was faster than I expected!
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I will announce the location as soon as the first check-in comes in.
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Anyone have any idea where I could find a left handed upright bass? (already checked Southpaw). Thanks.
Reply directly to: slsw@pacbell.net
Most leftie's play Upright Bass righty, some leftie's play a right handed Bass from the left side. Lots of guys will convert a right to a left. On an Upright Bass the fingerboard may or may not have a flat area under the E string to allow for the wider vibration of the lowest string. If The Bass is built this way you will need a new fingerboard. Reguardless, you will need the sound post and bass bar reversed as well as a new bridge and nut fitted and cut. Moving the sound post and bass bar require removing the top (expensive).
Bob Gollihur's Bulgarian Basses have been well reviewed and he is a very upfront honest guy. I would not be afraid to buy anything from him, however I would still have it setup by my local guy.
Bill
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The majority have arrived!
Arrivals:
tooter +
MartyJazz +
Noj +
Dan Gould +
Stefan Wood
Rosco +
Stereojack +
mikeweil +
Bright Moments +
Harold_Z +
Durium +
dutchmanx +
paul secor +
couw +
brownie +
DukeCity
king ubu +
John B
Uncle Skid +
Jim R +
Jim Dye +
Big Al +
JSngry +
take5 +
catesta +
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). After work I'm going to open up my first ever "Made by Bill" bottle of wine.
BFT #29 Disc 2 Answers
in Blindfold Test
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I apologize for the way I listed the answers. I would have liked to have given more info about the bassists as well as listing all of the sidemen. However, time did not permit. I will attempt to assist you as much as possible.