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The Bassist: Homage to Diversity is an album by bassist Richard Davis with pianist John Hicks released on the Palmetto label in 2001. “Master jazz bassist Richard Davis teams up with the esteemed John Hicks [More]

“Bassist Herman “Trigger” Alpert had an illustrious career. A muscular time-keeper with a refined sense of swing, he began recording in February 1940 in Frankie Trumbauer’s orchestra while touring with Alvino Rey’s band. That’s where [More]

Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 – July 6, 1961) was an American jazz double bassist known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. Track listing: A1 Making Whoopee 5:25 A2 In Your Own [More]

The Bassist! is an album by jazz bassist Sam Jones recorded in 1979 and released on the Interplay label. “Virtually all of Sam Jones’ occasional dates as a leader featured him in a purely supportive role [More]

Something in Common is a studio album by American jazz bassist Sam Jones which was released on September 13, 1977 via the Muse label. Later the record with three bonus tracks was re-released on CD [More]

Soapsuds, Soapsuds is an album by Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden recorded in 1977 and released on the Artists House label. “This unusual album found Coleman taking time off from his electric free funk group, Prime Time, to record acoustic duets [More]

“Wilkenfeld possesses all the requisite chops and uses them to terrific advantage on Transformation, her 2007 debut as a leader, released prior to hitting the road with Beck. As with Beck, she proves herself a [More]

Crossings is an album by pianist Red Garland, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in late 1977 and released on the Galaxy label in the following year. “Amazingly enough, this [More]

Richard Bona does not only play the e-bass in a harmonic and hypnotic way , but also his singing in the dialect of Douala is one of his famous brand-label. Together with the WDR Big [More]

“For this compilation of small big-band performances, bassist Sam Jones – long recognized for his ability to anchor and swing a session – reliably grounds a collection of arrangements that have an affinity with the [More]