[Ob3ron]

I just popped in the new Common album (called "Be") for the first time and was floored by how amazing the intro in the first track sounds. It's just unaccompanied bass plucking (at first) but.... WOW!

Can anyone name some other songs/albums of any genre where I might hear some other bass plucking solos?

 

[Jahn]

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Originally Posted by Ob3ron I just popped in the new Common album (called "Be") for the first time and was floored by how amazing the intro in the first track sounds. It's just unaccompanied bass plucking (at first) but.... WOW! Can anyone name some other songs/albums of any genre where I might hear some other bass plucking solos?

You mean like an actual Double Bass being plucked acoustically? Try "Musings of Miles" by Miles Davis - the intro to "Night in Tunisia" has a great bass plucking intro.

Or do you mean electric bass thumping? I like two - the intro to Ceremony by New Order (Peter Hook!) or even Cannonball by The Breeders - that's catchy!

 

[catachresis]

Double-bass-wise, I'd highly recommend any of the duet albums performed with Charlie Haden. I was listening to his collaboration with English pianist John Taylor Nightfall and it's richly elegant jazz. His work with Chris Anderson is more traditionally blues/stride oriented but also sparsely beautiful. Both albums are on the audiophile Naim label.

http://216.149.62.210/Merchant/merch...ory_Code=Vinyl

Mmmm, and then for something completely different, you've got the incomparable funk bass of someone like Bootsie Collins. I think the Breeders were channeling Bootsie (baby!) on "Cannonball".

 

[ooheadsoo]

Victor Wooten - A Show of Hands

Deliberately recorded rough, no overdubbing on the solo bass, I still can't believe it. I just got it yesterday and even though I've seen videos of him playing, I still couldn't believe my ears. He can funk and groove Bootsy style and he...well, he can do what Robert Johnson was famous for, put it that way. It's INSANE.

Oh yeah, it's a solo bass album. Nothing but the good stuff.

I'm listening to it now, and it still BLOWS ME AWAY - WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? HOW CAN HE PLAY LIKE THAT SO CLEANLY?

 

[xilron]

Don't forget Jaco Pastorious! He is a really good bassist for electric bass.

 

[Sleestack]

Ray Brown - Live at the Loa

Ellington/Mingus/Roach - Money Jungle

 

[3DCadman]

The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas

Double Bass throughout. Jazz, but.....different.

 

[dapperbandit]

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Originally Posted by xilron Don't forget Jaco Pastorious! He is a really good bassist for electric bass.

wow thats an understatement!!!! look for these players
Nathan East,Abraham Laboriel ,Anthony Jackson,Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller,Steve Bailey,Rocco Prestia, Larry Graham, James Jamerson,and Stanley Clarke and Ron Carter

 

[Garbz]

The intermission in Sinfield

 

[gratefulshrink]

Please don't forget Charles Mingus!