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Today is Jack Bruce’s birthday, and while we don’t need any excuse to share a great clip from the legendary bassist, we thought we’d celebrate with this one. This starts with Jack giving guitarist Rory Gallagher a crash course for “Politician”, seconds before the group takes the stage. Jack carries the tune and lets Rory fill in the rest. This...

Since the news of Donald “Duck” Dunn’s passing this morning, I’ve been watching a lot of videos featuring the bass legend. It was hard to pick one to share on this day… so much great music. Here’s Dunn with Booker T & the MG’s performing “Green Onions” live in 1967, during the Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway show. This concert...

Stuart Clayton is back with a new video, this time demonstrating a tune he wrote for the Rockschool Exam board. Stuart says this composition was written to meet a requirement for a “slap bass composition in the style of Mark King/Level 42”. Good stuff as always from Mr. Clayton! (And great camera work too.)

Here’s bassist Linley Marthe, doing some impressive soloing at the 2008 bass’ndrumfestival. Marthe made his mark as the bassist for the late great Joe Zawinul, which means he’s among an elite group.

Three words that mean a lot to us around here: Victor Wooten and Jam. One of the commenters said it best: “He can groove fast. He can groove slow. Mr. Wooten is the master of flow.” Now, who wants to transcribe this for us?

Big Sir, the project led by bassist Juan Alderete and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Lisa Papineau, just wrapped up a nice European tour. Lucky for the rest of us who couldn’t make it out, the duo stopped off for a performance at SSR Studios in Manchester for the online show Sessions 65, who made a few nice videos of their performance. “Old Blood”...

So often at NAMM, the demos are all about chops… pure chops. But when Tal Wilkenfeld and Steve Ferrone took the stage at the EBS booth during the Winter 2012 NAMM show, it was clearly all about the music.

Bassist Evan Marien shared his latest video with us, featuring saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock and drummer/guitarist Sebastiaan Cornelissen performing Cornelissen’s tune “Lewis”. While this video includes some nifty bass work by Marien (and a sweet solo), it also includes one of the smallest drum kits I’ve ever seen!

Here’s bassist/vocalist Nik West performing her funky tune, “Wait a Minute”. The song is from the bassist’s album, Just in the Nik of Time. Love the scat singing with Nik doubling the line on bass.

Usually when we see a video with Thomas “MarloweDK” Risell, he’s teaching us something. Today, we’re sharing a video where MarloweDK is letting loose, laying it down and getting funky. He said this is his “rehearsal” fusion band, playing a tune based on John Scofield’s “Chank”. I suppose that MarloweDK is teaching us something, even when he’s not. (And if...

Today is bass legend Ron Carter’s birthday, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t celebrate with some of his incredible playing. Here’s the bassist’s Golden Striker Trio, featuring pianist Mulgrew Miller and guitarist Russel Malone playing their namesake tune, originally performed by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Happy Birthday Ron Carter!

Bassist Will Cady took the Jaco Pastorius tune, “Portrait of Tracy”, and put a modern spin on it thanks in part to the use of the Hot Hand and some wah.