Articles by Corey Brown - Page 103

It is time for your weekly roundup of the top stories from the world of bass, from Primus’s epic cover of “Xanadu”, some new gear, learning how to play an Albert Collins funky blues, our interview with Susan Hagen, and more.

I was thrilled to see this new video by House of Waters hit. I was even more excited to learn they have a new album coming. From “Where I Wander”, here’s the band performing “Moon.” Moto Fukushima’s playing on this is as smooth as silk (as always).

Stanley Clarke joined Cory Henry at the Blue Note NYC on May 7th, and this happened. Check out their incredible performance of the Charles Mingus tune, “Goodbye Porkpie Hat.”

Primus, as I’m sure you know, is currently on tour performing Rush’s “A Farewell to Kings” in its entirety. Here’s a glimpse into the tour, thanks to this fan-shot video of the band performing “Xanadu.”

Leland Sklar posted this video on Facebook saying, “Loved our early beginnings! Innocent music...” What a wonderful clip this is of Lee performing “Rainy Day Man” live in 1971 with James Taylor and Russ Kunkel.

Katravion Tray Williams shared this video on Facebook, and I was blown away. Katravion took a cover of “Old Ship Of Zion” by Josh Myles and made it his own. What’s super impressive is how he handled all the instruments and vocals.

Nate Marsh graduated from Berklee in 2012 and just finished his Masters of Music at the University of Colorado. He’s published his thesis, “The Influence of Jazz on R&B Electric Bassists of the 1960s and 1970s”, which is publicly available.

Paul Thompson, who goes by pdbass on Youtube, posted an excellent bass history video the other day, focusing on the work of Michael Henderson. Paul also breaks down what Marcus Miller calls “the illest bass break ever!”

No Treble reader Frowin Ickler reached out to let us know he has a new Youtube channel dedicated to the “recreation of epic synth bass lines.” In Part 1, he recreates synth bass for the song “Me Too“ by Meghan Trainor (and shares the gear list).

Aeon Station visited the KEXP studios in April and performed four tunes. Here they are rocking the song “Air,” with Kevin Whelan and Lysa Opfer on bass.

Tigran Hamasyan saw Evan Marien and Dana Hawkins perform live. The next day, he hit up Evan to be on his next album. Evan shared the story behind what he went through to perform “the hardest music I’ve ever learned”.

Jason Heath shared a new video yesterday, and I was mesmerized. Jason has been working on the beautiful (and challenging) Nicholas Walker composition, “Chorale” for four years. In this clip, he performs the piece, then breaks it down.