Re Che Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Anyone living or not. I say Paul Chambers-just classic Ron Carter-That nice piccolo upright Slam Stewart- singing solos with the upright an octave higher Eddie Gomez-upper register domination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 And you had the nerve to leave out Ray Brown? To say nothing of Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Scott LaFaro, Red Mitchell, Christian McBride, Stanley Clarke, John Patitucci, (just to list a few of my favorites). Other posters will pop in and continue to whomp you upside the head with more names. Oh, yes, and welcome to the Lowdown Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Re Che Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Yes The great ray brown!! Seriously though I think ray is one of the best out there. My bad for not including him. Also forgot Cachao, Andy Gonzalez,Chuck Israels, Jimmy Blanton, Neils-Henning Orsted Pedersen(sp?) For Classical Giovanni Botessini Gary Karr Domenico Dragonetti And more that Im forgetting right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getz out Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 As usual, I happily join in the carnage. This guy rocks the house: http://www.jewsharpguild.org/festphot/KAISER1.JPG Welcome to the forum. What do you think is better, double bass or electric bass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Re Che Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 I like them both double bass or electric bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnb Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Four posts and not one mention of Dave Holland or Edgar Meyer ? What the hell is wrong with you Bozos? Richard Davis, Buster friggin' Williams, John Ore, Percy Heath, Rufus Reid, Charlie Haden??? What do you mean by "the best"? Fastest? Hardest swinging? Best Ears? Most creative? Most fun to hang with? What makes you think that "the best" isn't some city bus driver in Kokomo, Indiana? Welcome to the LowDown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sweet Willie_ Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 How 'bout Dave Brown or Thomas Brinkley? Isn't there also some guy named Ron Carter? Oh yeah, Maury, don't forget this fellah sportin' a sweet lid: http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Gallery/studivariousII.jpg spreadluv Fanboy? Why, yes! Nordstrand Pickups and Guitars. Messiaen knew how to parlay the funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getz out Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by Sweet Willie: Oh yeah, Maury, don't forget this fellah sportin' a sweet lid: http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Gallery/studivariousII.jpgNot bad, but no mustache. Sorry, doesn't cut it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sweet Willie_ Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Yeah, but your fellah ain't too tough wearing...gloves?! spreadluv Fanboy? Why, yes! Nordstrand Pickups and Guitars. Messiaen knew how to parlay the funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklab Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I'll just name some of my favorites. Best isn't something I take into consideration. Scott LoFaro of the Bill Evans Trio (early 60's) Paul Chambers w/ Miles Davis Charles Mingus Obligatory Social Media Link "My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davebrownbass Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Bottesini? Dragonetti? Just how old ARE you? I've never heard these guys. But I'll agree with virtually all the names listed. And I'll raise you Glen Moore (Oregon) and young Kristen Korb (Ray Brown protege I had the pleasure of hearing and meeting last year. Anyway a few days ago, before you got here, we'd just decided never to do the "who's your favorite" threads anymore. So much for New Years Resolutions. And welcome to the LowDown...great bunch of human beings. "Let's raise the level of this conversation" -- Jeremy Cohen, in the Picasso Thread. Still spendin' that political capital far faster than I can earn it...stretched way out on a limb here and looking for a better interest rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getz out Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by Sweet Willie: Yeah, but your fellah ain't too tough wearing...gloves?! The gloves aren't for playing; my mustache touting friend is wearing them so when he strangles your goofy tub-player's neck, he won't leave prints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Re Che Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Anyway a few days ago, before you got here, we'd just decided never to do the "who's your favorite" threads anymore. My bad about that. I wont do em again Just how old ARE you? I've never heard these guys. I mean their music if i didnt mention that sorry. Ive heard some double-bass players play some of their works and I really appreciate it. I forget the guys name who I heard perform a dragonetti piece and I remeber hearing a cd from my band director where someone was playing bottesini, at least thats what he said. It was pretty good music to me. My Post New Years resolution is to stop doing these kinds of topics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John W. Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Some of my favorites, whom I listen to for pleasure, inspiration and education: The funkiest--Sam Jones, with Cannonball Adderley, Bobby Timmons and the like, and Charles "Buster" Williams, whom JeremyC turned me onto when I was in high school. Any bassist with Miles Davis--Percy Heath, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Dave Holland. The lyrical ones--Red Mitchell, Michael Moore, Eddie Gomez. My favorite walkers--Ray Brown, Leroy Vinnegar and especially Israel Crosby (with Ahmad Jamal's trio w/ Vernell Fournier on drums.) Scotty LaFaro, and on his coattails, Gary Peacock--they opened Pandora's Box and opened the way for us to be, ahem, really interactive. Idiosyncratic and wonderful--Wilbur Ware (check Sonny Rollins' "A Night at the Village Vanguard" w/ Elvin Jones), and pre-electric Steve Swallow. Grand Daddies Jimmy Blanton (his duets with Duke Ellington invented the horn-like bass solo) and Milt Hinton (the most killer slap player ever, IMO). I've left out so many, Haden, Workman, Garrison, but those are the ones that rise in my mind first this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnb Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Leroy Vinegar, Wilbur Ware, Sam Jones - sweeeeeeeet! Sweet Willie, thanks for the honorable mention, but I am still very much a hack. I don't know why I gig so much on upright. What pisses me off is I'm starting to get the "do you play electric too?" line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I'm putting in a vote for Willie Dixon. I don't remember recommending Buster Williams to you, JW, but I'll take credit anyway! And if anyone asks me if I play upright, I say, "no, I usually play lying down". Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I always have my bass students listen to and buy Ray Brown. I just think he has the best walking lines ever. His solos aren't bad either. I would also add Steve Rodby to the list. He has played with Pat Methany for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfmonkey Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 You guys forgot FiElDy!! Seriously though, I always liked Robert Hurst, and Charnett Moffett. Two guys who I think don't get the recognition they deserve. I have no homepage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John W. Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Gee whiz--I got this all wrong--the question is: who do you think ARE the best URB players? Present tense, and here I went down memory lane. I don't know about the "best", but some of my favorites to listen to are: Renaud Garcia Fons--as a composer and bass soloist, he is one bad, big-hearted mama-jama! Ditto Avishai Cohen, and on electric, too. Same goes for Chris McBride, but less as a composer, for me, than the first two. But as a player!!.... Some dude named Bozo (no kidding) from eastern europe somewhere; the most stunning classical virtuoso I ever heard. Couple of homies made good--Peter Washington and Larry Grenadier. A guy here in the Bay Area, Jon Evans on both axes (check his electric playing with Tori Amos.) Newer New Yorkers like Reid Anderson, Drew Gress, Jon Webber and maybe my favorite of all, Scott Colley. Modern veterans Rufus Reid, Ray Drummond,Dave Holland, and Dennis Irwin, Steve LaSpina, Jay Anderson. There are so many others, especially the middle aged masters that managed to elude the "market" and are just doing it, and a bunch of well-trained, talented youngsters coming up all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD_dup2 Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I'll throw out a kicker. Diana Gannett She was Gary Karr's first Masters student at Yale and is the successor to Stuart Sankey at the University of Iowa (where she got her Bachelors). Talk about a sweet tone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplitNick Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Nobody even mentioned Edgar Meyer. He's pretty classy. Other than that my lists looks like all the others. We must accept the consequences of being ourselves-Sojourn of Arjuna Music at www.moporoco.com/nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiRoller Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Leroy Vinneger! my band: Mission 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edendude Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Ray Brown David Piltch My Last Band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Martin Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Among the upright bassists that I enjoy listening to (live or on records) are Dennis Crouch, the late Junior Huskey, the late Roy Huskey Jr., Dave Roe, Bob Moore, Mark Winchester, and a host of others - there is no 'best'. Dave Martin Java Jive Studio Nashville, TN www.javajivestudio.com Cuppa Joe Records www.cuppajoerecords.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLsound Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 How about Leonard Gaskin: Since I was listening to Lightnin Hopkins, I did some net research on who was one of his Bass Players, and they mention Leonard Gaskin. He has played with many people besides Lightnin' Hopkins. Very accomplished player. Jim http://www.artistlaunch.com/artist4.asp?artistid=3633 http://www.myspace.com/jlockmusic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklava Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 http://www.oteilburbridge.com/images/user_pages/OLaf.jpg Oteil Burbridge The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowfreq Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 If I had to pick my favourite URB's Willie Dixon Charlie Haden Mr PC Ray Brown John Patitucci "The Blues is the Roots, and the rest is the Fruits" Willie Dixon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil-E-Phil Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Anthony Cox Stanley Clarke Rufus Reid Ray Drummond Phil Smith - Creator of the iGigBook iPad/Android App Over 1300 Jazz Chord Charts That You Can Transpose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I've never heard Oteil play upright. Has he recorded anything on upright? Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g. Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Have all the known doghouse players been named yet? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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