Today’s featured video is from the Zawinul Syndicate’s North Sea Jazz Festival performance in 1997. Richard Bona is tearing it up, along with drummer Paco Sery and the rest of the Syndicate…

If you like this, you may also like the Syndicate’s World Tour release, a live 2-disc set from the same year. The recording features the same line-up: Paco Sery on drums and alternating tracks featuring Bona and long-time Zawinul favorite Victor Bailey on bass.

If you haven’t already discovered Thomas Risell, aka MarloweDK, you need to stop what you’re doing right now.

Here’s one of our favorites - a cover of the Jaco Pastorius bassline and solo from Ian Hunter’s “All American Alien Boy”:

And a remake of Nathan Watts’s killer bass playing on Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke”:

Lots more on Youtube and Play Bass Now.

A new project featuring a series of videos recorded with Rufus Reid has is now available on JazzDoubleBass.com. Here’s a preview:

David Hull plays Mozart’s Turkish Rondo:

David has the sheet music/tab for this piece on sale now

Legendary spoof band Spinal Tap reunited for Live Earth’s SOS event on July 7th at Wembley Stadium.

Wouldn’t you know it, the show’s highlight was “Big Bottom”, featuring “every bass player in the known universe”.

Yeah, bass saves the day.

Check it out:

How lucky can a guy get?

Sting’s son Joe Sumner, and his band “Fiction Plane” have joined The Police’s 2007 tour. The announcement follows the release of Fiction Plane’s second CD, “Left Side of the Brain.”

Like his father, Joe is the bassist and lead vocalist for the trio.

Check out Fiction Plane in a recent performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live:

Brian Bromberg, in support of his recent release “Downright Upright”, has added new dates to his tour.

Get a preview of the band live in this awesome arrangement of Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon”:

The Super Jam is one of Bonnaroo’s annual highlights. This year, the Super Jam featured Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, slide guitarist/vocalist Ben Harper, and the Roots’ drummer, Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson.

We’ll let the video speak for itself:

David Pastorius (nephew of Jaco Pastorius) has just released a new album on P-Vine Records titled “David Pastorius and Local 518″.

Local 518 has released a few live performance videos featuring tracks from the album:

Source: DavidPastorius.com.

Stray Cats bassist does his thing at the Ampeg booth at NAMM.