Bass Videos - Page 477

Live looping videos are a favorite around No Treble HQ. We usually find videos featuring of a solo bassist working alone with a looper pedal. Not the case with bassist Cico Cicognani, who performs with a trio with Pier Foschi and Mattia Dallara. Check out Mesh Machine:

Here’s a cool clip from the 2008 Detroit International Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence program, with Christian McBride.

Always eclectic, Bill Laswell ventures into a very interesting musical place with the Bill Laswell Axiom Sound System Musical Freezone 06. In this performance, Laswell plays with Zakir Hussein (tablas), Ustad Sultan Khan (vocal, sarangui), DJ Disk, Karsh Kale (drums) and Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet). This is part 4 of a 15-minute-jam.

Check out some great upright bass walking and soloing by Red Mitchell, playing “It Don’t Mean a Thing” along with trumpeter Clark Terry, live in 1988.

This video features a live performance of Cassandra Wilson with Lonnie Plaxico on bass, Brandon Ross on guitar and Jeffrey Haynes on percussion. They’re playing Astrud Gilberto’s song “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)”. Watch for Lonnie’s solo around the 2:20-minute-mark.

Check out Youtuber Allyourbassarebelong doing his bass arrangement of Queen’s classic “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

Here’s a great studio clip of the Beatles during the Revolver recording sessions, performing “And Your Bird Can Sing”. In this “take 2” recording, it is all about the bass (with light drums) and singing, with plenty of laughter. Thanks to Rachel, who shared this with us.

This is a live performance of Puerto Rican bassist Agustin Barreto‘s tune, Latina, from his album called Between My Walls. He is accompagnied by Abel Pabon on keyboard and Rey Monroig on drums.

I came across this video while browsing Youtube, but I didn’t pay attention to the title and couldn’t make out who the bassist was at first. About a minute into it (and already digging it), I realized it was Donovan Stokes tearing it up on upright… as in “Dr. D.”, who writes the Lowdown column here on No Treble. This...

Here’s Viaceslav Svedov presenting his slap bass adaptation of the classic Russian criminal song, “Murka”.

Check out the great Australian bass player, Dane Alderson, and his solo on this tune by thumpR called “Nail in the Coffin”:

Our friend Billy Voight recommended this video with three words: “Funky funky bass.”