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This week’s top 10 spans the last few days of 2013 and the first few of 2014. And so that means it also includes some of our Best Of lists… And that means there’s a lot of great bass-related stuff to read about! Here are the most popular stories, columns, videos and more on No Treble for the week of...

Bassist Bryan Ladd sent us this terrific video, which offers up a nice arrangement of the Jaco Pastorius tune, “Havona”. Bryan is joined by Justin Stanton on the Fender Rhodes and Jason Patterson on drums. And these guys are tight! Bryan takes an incredible solo too. I’ve watched this several times already. I bet you will too.

Chad Villar sent us this video of a duet he performed with Jim Joel Santos of the great Joe Zawinul tune, “Mercy Mercy Mercy”. These guys do such a terrific job, and it reminds me of another great bass duet of this tune from the archives.

Wow, I’m so glad I stumbled upon this video… it takes me way back to high school when I had some Tania Maria cassettes (yes, old school). This is Tania and her band at the Java Jazz Festival in 2005, performing “A Felicidade” with bassist Marc Bertaux kicking things off.

The last month of the year featured more new basses than anything else in the gear category, but a few pedals and accessories were announced as well. Here are the top 10 most popular gear stories in December. 1. Sandberg 5-String MarloweDK Signature Bass Two years after issuing MarloweDK’s signature bass, Sandberg has unveiled a five string version of the...

Miki Santamaria is back, this time with one of his own compositions. He said he doesn’t usually write songs. We think he should do it more often.

This one should make a lot of readers happy. Every year, plenty of people say the great James Jamerson should be #1, and we can never argue with that. In 2013, No Treble readers made it so, checking out the isolated bass videos we’ve shared along the way. What likely tipped the scales this year was the response to Jack...

Pino Palladino has made the top 10 Reader Favorites list before, and well deserved too. The busy bassist had a pretty notable year, touring with the Who and then announced as the touring bassist for Nine Inch Nails. There’s also the video of Pino performing with Nine Inch Nails that really got a ton of attention, as did the one...

It just wouldn’t be a top 10 list without the great Marcus Miller. A combo of stories and videos landed Marcus on the #3 spot, and none of them cooler than the work he did in support of the UNESCO Project. I was seriously eyeballing some of the basses in that sale. Of course, Marcus’ videos helped a lot too,...

Thanks to the web, we’re now able to see and hear recordings of Jaco Pastorius that otherwise would have remained in private collections or shared among traders as we did back in the day. And thanks to many of these videos we’re able to share, Jaco routinely makes the top 10 Reader Favorites list each year. Among the most popular...

Back in June, 2011, our Facebook friend Noah Sider shared a video with us that made me an instant fan of band known as Vulfpeck. There’s a ton to love about this band, as it is comprised of some monster musicians who know how to have fun and really know how to lay it down. But it was bassist Joe...

A fixture on our annual Reader Favorites list (and pretty much every other top bassist list out there), is the one and only Victor Wooten. Victor’s name was attached to a couple of cool gear features this year, starting with the Rybski Wooten Woods Camp Bass. Later in the year, Fodera introduced Victor Wooten Fretless Bass, in a tribute to...