Archive for 2021 - Page 54

This is an exciting Groove episode for us on a number of counts. Jackie Clark has been a great friend to us since the beginning of No Treble, he’s a super accomplished musician and a fantastic storyteller. Enjoy the conversation...

Nick Lloyd recently shared this video on Facebook of Mariya-Andoniya Andonova-Henderson performing Bach’s Cello Suite No.6, Prelude on a bass he built. The tone and performance are magnificent!

Dave Holland has returned with a new trio record with guitarist Kevin Eubanks and drummer Obed Calvaire. “Another Land” is a studio album, but the songs are derived from themes that developed organically during the concerts before recording.

This week in The Brown’stone on No Treble, Rich Brown’s study of triads continues, taking the lessons learned in our last one to create beautiful chords on bass (and use those same shapes to play bass lines).

The Fearless Flyers shared some exciting news yesterday. The band is releasing an album from their live performance at Madison Square Garden Here’s a preview of what’s to come, with Joe Dart and the guys getting funky on “Introducing the Fearless Flyers.”

Composer and bassist Almog Sharvit has marked his debut as a leader with “Get Up Or Cry”, an album that defies genres with shades of jazz, electronica, rock, bluegrass, and even 20th-century classical music.

Time for our monthly roundup of the reader favorite bass gear stories! Here is your top 10 list for the month of May 2021.

Brubaker Guitars has unveiled a new bass to their lineup called the JXB-USA Standard. Built in the U.S. with locally sourced and sustainably harvested woods, the model is a take on the classic J-Bass.

Zander Zon has a new Dingwall Combustion 5-String bass, and he decided to put it to good use with his latest video. In this clip, Zander performs his incredible solo bass arrangement of John Denver’s hit tune, “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.

Nate Navarro has been wowing No Treble readers for years. Now, he’s ready to teach us a thing or two in his first book, “BASS: 4-String Etudes, Riffs, Songs & Exercises”.

This week we’re checking a bass that luthier Shawn May calls a “super secret fun project.” This version of his DCM4 features a medium 32-inch scale and an amazing flame maple and ebony theme.

1983 was definitely a good year. A shift in music was happening. David Bowie and Nile Rodgers hooked up to produce one of the biggest records of the 80s, “Let’s Dance”. Here’s Carmine Rojas’s isolated bass track layered with synth bass.