Archive for 2021 - Page 5

This week in The Brown’stone on No Treble, Rich Brown takes us through his favorite Jaco Pastorius exercise. But not only that, he shows us his version of the exercise, played in reverse.

No Treble readers are bringing it with the video shares lately. Jürgen Ademes sent us this fantastic video of the German band KRAAN (with Helmut Hattler on bass) performing “Borgward” in 2008.

It’s another tough day in the music world as we mourn the loss of bassist Phil Chen, who has passed away at the age of 75.

In this new “Bass & Creativity” lesson, Olivier Babaz talks about rhythm in improvisation, specifically managing the rhythmic grid with cycles. By changing where we feel the metronome, we can build our inner pulse for more creative ideas.

Vulfpeck has shared a new project, dubbed Wongs Cafe. The band shared this note: “unearthed Vulf recording from Denver sessions … polarizing.” Here’s the group - with Joe Dart - performing “Disco De Lune”.

Haim released their latest album, “Women in Music Pt. III”, back in June of 2020, and now the trio of sisters are ready to take the show on the road. The band, anchored by bassist Este Haim, announced “One More Haim Tour”.

We’ve featured one bass by Storywood Music before, and luthier Tyler Townsend has just shared their latest bass creation with us: the Deluxe “O” Bass.

I’m loving the videos MarloweDK is dropping. Here’s another one of him and Rumors Corner in a live performance. In this one, they lay down a funky cover of “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”.

Michael Manring is known for his otherworldly playing, and a part of that comes from his deep understanding of alternate tunings. Now he’s teamed up with David Gross to create a series of books exploring the subject.

We’re wrapping up another week with a look back at the most-read articles on No Treble. Here is your weekly top 10!

No Treble reader Joachim Lauricella sent us this video with only a subject line: “Just sharing a dope video!” It is indeed dope. Here’s Jean-Paul Groove, with bassist Jeremy Debuysschere, performing “Fat Fries”.

John Patitucci has always been one of my favorites. The stuff he does on 6 string bass is just incredible! Here he is performing two of my favorite tunes from his debut album.