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Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding Duet
Bass Videos

Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding Duet

Tavis Smiley hosted Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding on his PBS show. Described as a “3 camera 1 take no editing experience,” here is their performance.

Morglbl Releases Sixth Full-Length Album
New Albums

Morglbl Releases Sixth Full-Length Album

Jazz/metal band Mörglbl has released its latest album, Tea Time for Punks. It’s the sixth full-length studio album for the French band featuring Ivan Rougny on bass, Christope Godin on guitar and Aurelian Ouzoulias on drums. The group’s sound merges metal chords, jazz, and humor to arrive at something that evokes artists as disparate as Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, and...

Reader Spotlight: Michal Šelep
Reader Spotlight

Reader Spotlight: Michal Šelep

Meet Michal Šelep, a bassist from Slovakia who has a great knack for story telling, as you’ll see below. Michal also seems to have a great outlook on life and music. He’s the No Treble reader in the spotlight for the week of May 25, 2015. Bio: It’s been 22 years since I’ve been making my first noises. I was...

Guild Introduces Westerly Collection B-140E Acoustic Bass Guitar
Basses

Guild Introduces Westerly Collection B-140E Acoustic Bass Guitar

Guild has introduces the Westerly Collection, a series pays homage to the company’s early history of acoustic instruments. The lineup includes the B-140E acoustic bass guitar, which is based on the mid-70’s B-50 model. Utilizing the Guild jumbo body shape, the bass is built with a solid Sitka spruce top, solid African mahogany back and sides, and an Indian rosewood...

The Blurry Empire: Lunarscapes
Bass Videos

The Blurry Empire: Lunarscapes

Bassist Marius Römer is one who likes to experiment with his bass and music. He shared this video with us of a Cologne, Germany-based band The Blurry Empire. “My passion is about creating particular soundscapes by using different kinds of effects and in this kind by playing the bass with a bow,” Marius shared. “The sound of our song ‘Lunarscapes’...

Snarky Puppy Explores the Forest Musically with European Orchestra
New Albums

Snarky Puppy Explores the Forest Musically with European Orchestra

Snarky Puppy’s latest album, Sylva, is unlike anything it has produced before — this time out, the groundbreaking band has created music with The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest, which the band and orchestra then recorded live. “The last thing I wanted to do with this opportunity was turn it into a Snarky Puppy With Strings situation,” said Snarky Puppy leader/bassist Michael...

Bass of the Week: Stambaugh Designs 6-String Custom Inlayed Bass
Bass of the Week

Bass of the Week: Stambaugh Designs 6-String Custom Inlayed Bass

Chris Stambaugh of Stambaugh Designs posts a “Build of the Month” on his website to show his best work of the month, and it’s incredible to see the range of styles he produces. This week, we check out a custom six-string design he featured in November 2012, with a dramatic fingerboard inlay and breath-taking body wood. “This instrument is one...

Felipe Gianei: Charlie Parker’s “Cherokee” Solo on Bass
Bass Videos

Felipe Gianei: Charlie Parker’s “Cherokee” Solo on Bass

We can learn a lot about our instrument by transcribing other instrumentalists, and Charlie Parker’s recordings are a lifetime of lessons. Bassist Felipe Gianei spent four months transcribing Bird’s solo on “Cherokee” and applying it to bass. “[The] first time I listened to this recording of Cherokee I thought, ‘Man, I want to know what he’s doing here, I wanna...

Faith No More is Back with “Sol Invictus” After an Almost 20-year Recording Break
New Albums

Faith No More is Back with “Sol Invictus” After an Almost 20-year Recording Break

Faith No More’s first studio album since 1997’s Album of the Year was recorded with the band’s bassist, Bill Gould, at the helm. Gould, one of the founders of the group known for hits like “Epic” and “We Care A Lot,” produced the new record, Sol Invictus. “We’ve always shared a chemistry between ourselves that’s unique to this band, but...

Weekly Top 10: RIP Louis Johnson, Practicing vs. Performing, Top Bass Gear, Videos and More
Weekly Top 10

Weekly Top 10: RIP Louis Johnson, Practicing vs. Performing, Top Bass Gear, Videos and More

This week, we lost one of the giants in the world of bass with the passing of Louis Johnson. We also shared the news of Chris Squire’s fight with leukemia. Both pieces of news made the top 10 most read stories of the week, making this a tougher list than usual. 1. In Memoriam: Louis Johnson Bass legend Louis Johnson,...

MXR Now Shipping the M85 Bass Distortion Pedal
Pedals & Effects

MXR Now Shipping the M85 Bass Distortion Pedal

After announcing the pedal at the NAMM Show this year, Dunlop is now shipping the MXR M85 Bass Distortion. The pedal was designed with Fuzzrocious Pedals founder Ryan Ratajski and is described as revamp on a “famously nasty sounding distortion circuit” that’s been retooled for the modern player. The M85 has separate Dry and Wet level controls to retain low...

Andrew Gouche: 1968 Fender Jazz Bass Church Flow
Bass Videos

Andrew Gouche: 1968 Fender Jazz Bass Church Flow

Gospel bass legend Andrew Gouche has started posting videos of his church performances, and this one of his “church flow” with his trusty 1968 Fender Jazz Bass is on point. Gouche accompanies the choir on “Is My Living In Vain” during a recent service. The clip is a treat as a performance, but it also serves as a lesson in...