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- Robert Plant/Alison Krauss' Dennis Crouch March 2008
A trad-upright torchbearer and an in-demand Nashville sessioneer, Dennis Crouch was the logical low-end choice for last year’s acclaimed Robert Plant/Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand. The T-Bone Burnett– produced CD ...
- Miroslav Vitous March 2008
From his early collaborations with seekers such as Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and the original Weather Report to his own constantly evolving recorded work, Miroslav Vitous has continually redefined the role of bass in jazz. On his latest ...
- Incredible Journey: Eberhard Weber January 2008
The ultimate birthday gift? For Eberhard Weber’s 65th, it was a concert hall, a clutch of talented friends, and a full orchestra celebrating a career that’s found the bassist/composer in the front rank of jazz visionaries. For the ...
- Herbie Lewis 1941–2007 October 2007
Bassist and jazz educator Herbie Lewis, a fixture in the hard-bop scene of the ’60s and ’70s, died of cancer this past May in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 66. Lewis’s many sessions included recordings with saxophonists Harold Land, ...
- Dr. Art Davis 1934–2007 October 2007
Dr. Art Davis, a classically trained bassist and clinical psychologist who helped reshape his instrument’s role in jazz, died of a heart attack on July 29 in Long Beach, California. He was 73. In addition to extensive jazz credits that ...
- Billy Cox is Jimi Hendrix Experienced! July 2007
“It’s a sad dog that don’t wag its own tail,” says Billy Cox, “but I had the privilege to play in Gypsy Sun & Rainbows at Woodstock, the Band Of Gypsys at the Fillmore, and with the Experience. So I played with all three of Jimi Hendrix’s ...
- Patsy & Elvis & All That Jazz June 2007
He’s the Cachao of country. The Ray Brown of the Nashville sound. In a career that’s seen recording technology go from transcriptions to tape to Pro Tools, Bob Moore created the touchstone tone and feel for Nashville bass.
- Fred Wesley & the Swing ’n Jazz All-Stars June 2007
t Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing [Sons of Sound]
- Todd Phillips June 2007
Newgrass, progressive bluegrass, new acoustic—whatever the label, Todd Phillips is the player who freed bluegrass bassists from their root-5 shackles. From his early work with the David Grisman Quintet and the Bluegrass Album Band to ...
- Willie Kent, 1936-2006 June 2007
Willie Kent, a hard-working bluesman whose soulful singing and solid P-Bass grooves anchored his own band and the Chicago scene for decades, died of cancer on March 2. He was 70. A ten-time Handy Award winner, Kent recorded 12 solo ...