Jack Bruce is one of the largest bass icons in rock. Born in Scotland in 1943, Jack played with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall's Blues Breakers (where he met Eric Clapton) and Manfred Mann. Jack even turned down an offer to join Marvin Gaye's band! He joined up with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker to form the supergroup, Cream. Cream sold 35,000,000 albums in just over two years and was awarded the first-ever platinum disc for Wheels of Fire. This song, from that album, is their interpretation of the Robert Johnson classic "Crossroads."
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May 29, 2008
May 28, 2008
Detachment from the Album Carbonne Di Piazza Manring
This is my first column for Bass Musician Magazine, and it's dedicated to my favorite instrument, fretless bass. I started to play fretless in 1982, influenced by Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report's "Heavy Weather") and Alain Caron (Uzeb's "Fast Emotion").
May 25, 2008
Hadrien Feraud | "Hadrien Feraud"
If you haven't heard of this guy (kid, really! mid-twenties... yikes!), get out from under the boulder and look him up. He is single handedly raising the bar on technical ability on the electric bass. This kid is FAST! The refreshing thing is that he is also, quite obviously, harmonically deep.
May 24, 2008
Gerald Veasley | "Your Move"
"Your Move" is Gerald Veasley's perfectly produced new album. Although hailed as one of the more in-demand "contemporary" bassists on the scene today, we know that Gerald is much more.
May 23, 2008
The Latest Bass Music Video Finds...
This month we focus on the Upright Man - masters of the upright bass, standing bass, acoustic bass, double bass, contrabass - whatever you call it, it's an instrument distinct from the bass guitar in so many ways
May 18, 2008
Etienne Mbappe | "Misiya"
I'll use this reference only so those of you who haven't heard Etienne Mbappe yet have a head start on this guy. Many of us are already familiar with Richard Bona... Well, Etienne Mbappe has a similar story.
May 17, 2008
Dave Holland | "Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters"
There is a reason that the Album of the Year went to Herbie for this album. It is lush and masterful. Joni's songs are well represented and given some beautiful treatment by Herbie, Vinnie, Lionel and... Dave Holland.
May 07, 2008
Review CD's and Share Your Music With the World!
When we started this feature, we never imagined how many talented musicians would be sending us their work from all around the world!
May 06, 2008
Victor Wooten | "Palmystery"
I have been a fan of Victor Wooten (like many of us) for years. Ever since a fellow bass player at Berklee turned me onto him in college in about 93'. I also own every thing he's put out. He's one of those guys for me that, even if I'm not into EVERYTHING he does, I'll always listen to him to see what he's doing (cause' there is ALWAYS something new in there). I also went to his wonderful Bass Camp on 2001... Basically, I KNOW Victor's music and playing pretty well. That all being said...
April 30, 2008
The ?New? Fusion
OK---I'll get right to the "question marks" around "New". Many years ago in an article in Bass Player Magazine, Alain Caron speaking about the music he was working on at present, and dealing with the topic of "fusion" being kind of on its way out, made the statement, "Its all fusion".
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