Bass Videos - Page 2

Louis Johnson was something special. In this special clip, we hear him thumping and plucking on the the Tranzit tune “Dance” from 1983. His trusty Musicman Sabre also makes an appearance.

Hadrien Feraud dropped another spectacular video from his “Bass of Doom Sessions” series. Armed with Jaco Pastorius’s legendary bass, here’s Hadrien and the band performing Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow.”

Marcus Miller and Omar Hakim took the stage at Berklee’s Spring Bass Bash. Here’s the duo jamming on the tune, “Jean Pierre.”

Zander Zon tuned his bass to match a cello’s, put a capo on the 12th fret, and then performed a stunning rendition of Bach’s “Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major.”

The Jaco Pastorius Archive delivered big with this recording of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man,” performed by Tommy Strand & The Upper Hand. Jaco was only 19 at the time.

No Treble readers never fail to impress us. Here’s a video Milan Srdanovic shared with us of a masterful solo bass arrangement of “Niška Banja.”

In this video, Ed Friedland (on double bass) covers the Oscar Pettiford tune “Tricrotism.” The tune also features Kevin Ravellette on sax and my friend Kenji Lancaster on drums.

You have to hand it to DHL. They asked Cory Wong to “write a song that demonstrates the idea of ‘supply chain’.” Cory delivered an excellent, funky tune with the help of bassist Yohannes Tona, and some killer string and horn sections.

Christian Kussmann sent us the latest video from his project, Almost Nailed It. Here’s the tune, “J.B. will never die.”

Marcus Miller and his band are back with another video from his shows at SF Jazz. This performance shows the crew taking on the Miles Davis fusion classic “Bitches Brew.”

Drummer Jojo Mayer continues to drop videos from his archives, and we keep watching. Here’s “Goblin Shark,” with John Davis on bass.

Charles Berthoud decided to cover a song I heard countless times back in the 80’s, but he did it the way I dig it: all with basses. Here he is performing a-ha’s monster hit, “Take On Me.”