Articles by Corey Brown - Page 549

Check out this 1998 performance of Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters, performing Chameleon. Bassist Paul Jackson is holding down the low end (and the upper register too!) Also on the date: Benny Maupin on sax, Bill Summers on percussion and Mike Clark on drums.

Italia Leather Straps is a California-based bass and guitar strap manufacturer, specializing in made-to-order, high-quality leather and suede straps. Italia Leather Straps’ VP Cindi Seville shipped us one of their straps to try out, and I found the quality and comfort to be exactly as advertised. I tried out the “Acorn – Medium Brown” strap (pictured), which is as beautiful...

Behemoth bassist Tomasz “Orion” Wróblewski has signed on as an Markbass endorsing artist. Orion is using two Markbass SD 800 heads and Standard 106HF, Standard 104HF and Standard 151HF cabinets for the band’s current U.S. tour, and used Markbass gear during the recording of the band’s new album Evangelion, releasing August 11th. “Markbass gear simply stands out,” says Orion. “What...

Check out Ray Riendeau and his trio burn it up on Charlie Parker’s Donna Lee and Au Privave! The other members of the trio are Dan Tomlinson on drums and Steve Culp on piano. The performance took place at Arizona State University’s Bass Festival, in March 2009.

Bassist John Goldsby is releasing Space for the Bass on August 11th, and No Treble got an early preview. Actually, I should say multiple previews… I’ve listened to it countless times already. You don’t want to miss this one. Space for the Bass is John’s third CD project produced by his own label, Bass Lion and follows his previous releases,...

I’m extremely pleased to announce Dr. Donovan Stokes is joining the No Treble team with a monthly column and on an advisory level. Donovan is a bass professor at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. Be on the look out for Donovan’s column, The Low Down with Dr. D, later this month. In the meantime, check out Donovan playing Jimi Hendrix’s...

Today’s featured video showcases some amazing feats by bassist Rob Gourlay, performing Chick Corea’s Got a Match? at the Berklee Bass Lines concert in 2006. Thanks to our Twitter friend Alun Vaughan for sharing the video with us.

Do not adjust your video player… When I first watched this video, I thought my video player went crazy and was playing everything a double speed. Turns out that the bassist Spencer Hoveskeland was the one playing at double (or faster) speeds.

Jazz vocal group, Manhattan Transfer, is wrapping up their long-awaited new release, The Chick Corea Songbook, with the help of guest bassist Christian McBride. The release features vocal interpretations of popular songs from Corea’s vast library, including “Free Samba”, a new tune written for the album. Other guest musicians include Fred Hersch, Airto, Edsel Gomez, Lou Marini and Alex Acuna....

Here’s a nice one from the archives: bassist Sean Andrews‘s all-bass arrangement of the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields. Sean dedicated the arrangement to Mike Portnoy, saying “thanks for having us open for you on the Systematic Chaos tour!” Check out Sean’s Myspace page, indica trichome project [bass instrumentals].

Bassist Sebastiano Mereu (aka monsterbazz on Youtube) sent us this video featuring alekszmusic performing a remote collaboration of Stevie Wonder’s Superstition with him. Sebastiano shares: “After Aleks saw my Higher Ground cover, she told me that she is a huge Steve Wonder fan, and I took the initiative to ask her for a remote collab. Her singing is simply phenomenal,...

Bassist Rich Brown submitted this video to us, featuring his original composition for solo bass, “Lua”. As Rich describes it: “This new tune was written after spending many an evening gazing at the moon in it’s luminous splendor. A bit Metheny, a bit Gismonti, a bit Garrison.”