Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: James Jamerson’s Isolated Bass

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If it’s James Jamerson with a great drummer (Uriel Jones or Benny Benjamin?), you don’t need anything else. This isolated bass and drum version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” proves it.

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Comments:

Norman T hacker says:
March 23, 2011 at 8:16 am

Amazing ,hooked so well into the vocal and yet so very strong on his own.

Reggie says:
February 9, 2011 at 11:46 am

All in one take, drunk as a skunk, his crazy ways – this guy very much influenced not just bass players but musicians all over the world. I visited the Motown museum in Detroit & lay where he played on ‘what’s goin on’. The guy was (& still is) a genius.

bassin says:
November 21, 2010 at 2:56 pm

Thanks for this audio of James. Tremendous and so fat. No one like James. Strong.

Clifton says:
October 30, 2010 at 9:23 pm

You can tell, he was at the Top of his Game when he played this! Awesome! Yet, another Great Bass player that left us way to soon!!! Long Live the Hook!!!!

Mike says:
October 30, 2010 at 5:25 pm

Obviously the king of the genre, but it’s interesting to hear it isolated and how rushed some of his lines were

Steve says:
November 1, 2010 at 4:44 am

You say ‘rushed’ I say ‘forward momentum’. It’s probably a fine line but considering the success of his playing it’s difficult to criticise.

However, he was extremely drunk at the time! :)

sakis says:
October 30, 2010 at 3:39 pm

one of the greatest bass players of all time!