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New Albums

Christian Grizzard: Space Artist

Bassist Christian Grizzard has released a new album, entitled Space Artist. The album is available as a free download at The Electric Experiment web site. The 10-track album is all instrumental and was produced at light-speed. “I wrote the songs in 3 days and we recorded them in 4 hours without a full band rehearsal,” according to Grizzard, “it’s our...

Reader Spotlight: Alun Vaughan
Reader Spotlight

Reader Spotlight: Alun Vaughan

Meet bassist Alun Vaughan, our player in the spotlight for August 18, 2009. Bio I play in UK rock band Panic Room and am also a busy freelance player, playing with various local bands as well as backing some of the UK’s top jazz musicians such as Alan Barnes, Steve Waterman, Mornington Lockett and Dave O’Higgins, among others. I also...

Hiromi with Tony Grey: Live at Duc des Lombards
Bass Videos

Hiromi with Tony Grey: Live at Duc des Lombards

Today’s video shows off the incredible line up of pianist Hiromi with bassist Tony Grey, drummer Mauricio Zottarelli and guitarist John Shannon, performing live at Duc des Lombards in Paris.

Player News

The Streets bassist gets swine flu

The Streets have been forced to cancel their latest shows due to bassist Wayne Vibes becoming sick with swine flu. The band was due to headline at the Summer Sundae festival in Leicester, England on August 15th, and play Edinburgh’s Picture House in Scotland on the 16th. Indie band Idlewild stepped in to close the show instead. Singer Mike Skinner...

New Albums

Steve Uccello releases Symmetria

Bassist Steve Uccello has released his second CD, Symmetria, a 14 track instrumental album showcasing various bass instruments and featuring Kathy Uccello on mandolin on two songs. The album is enhanced visually by Joe Uccello (The Octagonal Aerie). Preview Symmetria: You can also see a video of Uccello performing “Golden” on his blog. Uccello has an impressive list of groups...

Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Seppuku Digital Pitch Modulator

Seppuku has developed the Digital Pitch Modulator to convert your bass into a “massive synthesis of sound”. The Digital Pitch Modulator uses an 8-bit digital chip to create octave up, octave down, fifth note, ring mod, arpeggio and bit crusher sounds and blends them with analog fuzz to make mind-blowing effects. The features and specifications are: Oscillator Frequency Control Digital/Analog...

Bass Videos

Kilian Duarte: Portrait of Tracy

Bassist Kilian Duarte sent us a note, sharing his version of the Jaco Pastorius tune, “Portrait of Tracy”. Kilian asked us for feedback… post in the comments below.

Weekly Top 10

No Treble Rewind: Spotlight on Iris Ornig & Evan Marien, Ray Riendeau’s new column & videos

In case you missed it, here are some of the most popular features from last week (August 9th through 15th). Ray Riendeau introduced his new column, Ray’s raving about…, and raved about Tony Grey’s Chasing Shadows Evan Kepner posted his interview with Iris Ornig In lessons, Jon Burr wraps up the Untold Secret to Melodic Bass series with “Harmonic Dynamics“....

Bass Gear

Gear Watch: Reunion Blues Continential Case

Have you ever had a bass guitar thrown from a high roof? Do you want a guitar case that could withstand that level of abuse anyways? After 3 years in research and development Reunion Blues has released the RB Continental Case, designed to outperform standard cases made from wood or plastic and handle an “accidental” roof launch. “When we set...

New Albums

Freddie Washington: In The Moment

We have discovered another bass gem for those of you looking for smooth jazz and a strong groove. Bassist Freddie Washington released In the Moment this June, his solo debut featuring a collection of groove songs mixing jazz, pop, R&B and gospel. Known as “Ready” Freddie Washington, he has played with Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and...

Pino Palladino Live with John Mayer Trio: Who Did You Think I Was?
Bass Videos

Pino Palladino Live with John Mayer Trio: Who Did You Think I Was?

By far, my favorite John Mayer CD is , thanks to bassist Pino Palladino‘s incredible playing. This is concert footage the way we like it… with the camera operator sticking with the bassist for the whole segment. Be sure to hang around to the 2:40 mark of this video, where the band kicks into Jimi Hendrix’s “Power of Soul”. Pino...

New Albums

Bela Fleck’s Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto and Music for Trio Live, featuring Edgar Meyer

Banjo legend Bela Fleck teamed up with bassist Edgar Meyer and tabla player Zakir Hussain to produce Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto and Music for Trio, performed live with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The album will release on August 25th, and is available for pre-order. Fleck and Meyer have been working together for over 25 years, including the Grammy award...