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A new album featuring a bassist, producer, composer Marcus Miller is scheduled for release in early 2011. A Night In Monte-Carlo, recorded in 2008, is a unique-sounding record featuring songs composed and/or arranged by Miller, for a concert commissioned in Monaco. On the recording, Miller leads his quartet and is backed by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Special guests include trumpeter...

Even Doug Wimbish‘s sound checks are cool. Here’s Doug at Southern Studios in London, back in 1990.

Alain Caron is making it look easy in this live solo clip from a Uzeb concert performance. Uzeb was a Canadian band, active from 1976 until 1992.

Here are the most read, most popular stories and features on No Treble for the week of October 31 – November 6, 2010. Top 10: The Best Bass Videos (October 2010) Video: Esperanza Spalding: I Can’t Help It (Michael Jackson Cover) Player News: Les Claypool Asks Fans For Help News: New Film to Feature Duff McKagan’s Loaded Player News: Krist...

Backbeat Books has released The Funky Bass Book, compiled and edited by former Bass Player magazine editor Bill Leigh. The 256 page book offers a huge collection of “funked-up wisdom and inspiration”, tracing back to the pioneers of R&B, soul and funk, to the latest hop-hop, neo-soul and Gospel. The book’s forward is by Bootsy Collins. The Funky Bass Book‘s...

Here’s a live Montreux Jazz Festival of Stanley Clarke‘s “School Days”, performance by Clarke and George Duke. The video gives you a close up look at Clarke’s Alembic bass (and playing!)

Jim Clench, a bassist from Montreal who performed with April Wine and Bachman Turner Overdrive, has passed away at the age of 61. Clench had been battling lung cancer. Clench was with April Wine from 1970 until 1975, performing on the band’s hits including “You Could Have Been a Lady” and “The Whole World’s Goin’ Crazy”. After his break from...

Another great live performance by our friend Miles Mosley, performing “Take Me Home”. What a kickin’ tune!

Hal Leonard has released Volume 18 of their Bass Play-Along series. Blues Rock is a 72 page, 8 song book featuring tab and CD tracks for each classic blues tune. The melody and lyrics for each tune are also included. The CD includes audio with and without bass, so you can hear the bassline first, and play along with the...

This week, we’re taking a look back at the top 10 most popular bass videos from October, 2010. 1. Divinity Roxx Bass Solo Divinity Roxx got her start touring with Victor Wooten. Now she’s running the show for Beyonce’s band, and showing off her bass skills with a medley of classic hip-hop and R&B. 2. Jeff Beck with Tal Wilkenfeld:...

Aguilar Amplification has added their first lightweight cabinet to their line. The SL 112 weighs in at 25 pounds and features a Neodymium driver with a custom-designed crossover, a phenolic tweeter with variable level control and a frequency response ranging from 37Hz–16kHz. “We spent a lot of time working on the crossover design to arrive at the smoothest possible frequency...

Today’s video comes from Uriah Duffy, who sent along this note with it: After leaving Whitesnake, I’ve returned to gigs with various artists as a bassist for hire, which I love doing. There are some great new original projects for me these days, but for now, here’s a lil 5-string solo flavor over “Superstitious”, using my beloved Lakland 55-94 and...