Bass Videos - Page 501

Bassist Esperanza Spalding performed at the White House for the Obama family in early 2009, celebrating the music of Stevie Wonder. This video clip includes her performance of “Overjoyed”. Spalding is currently on tour and will continue to be through December of 2009. A complete tour list is available from her web site.

Today’s featured video showcases a nice duet between bassist Edgar Meyer and Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile. The recording took place on October 24, 2008 at University of Chicago’s Mandel Hall.

Do we really need words for this? I don’t think so.

For you classical music fans out there we found this remarkable video of Boguslaw Furtok and Johannes Stähle performing Giovanni Bottesini’s “Gran Duetto No 2 Finale.” A little history lesson, Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer (1821-1889), conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Bottesini is credited as being one of the main virtuoso composers to bring the versatility and beauty...

Here’s a little 4-loop pedal magic by bassist TIMBASSIX, who said “I had a day off… go music.”

Holy smokes, this hardly seems fair. Check out Fabio Valdemarin playing ALL the parts to Chick Corea’s “Got a Match?”

Here’s a rare video gem of Marcus Miller performing a solo at the GRP All Stars Live in Japan. The performance took place in 1980.

Alessio Tori, aka ato71, has quite a few bass playalong videos on his channel, and they’re all killer. Here’s Alessio taking on one of the biggies… Jaco’s killer line from Joni Mitchell’s live Shadows & Light performance of “In France They Kiss on Main Street”. Alessio shares, “Maybe I dared too much but this is such a fantastic line… I...

Today’s video showcases the playing of Marco Rodi, a solo bassist from Montreal. The video shows various segments of a 35-minute live performance. You can get more information on Rodi from his web site or friend him on Facebook and Twitter.

Here we’ve got a great solo by Linley Marthe, during a performance with The Zawinul Syndicate at New Morning in Paris. You can also catch Marthe playing on Hadrien Feraud’s solo album.

In this video, bassist Ric Fierabracci performs a solo in “The Rain Must Fall”, with Yanni in a 1993 performance in Greece. Fierabracci’s extensive musical resume includes having performed, recorded and run the gamut for artists like Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl, Steve Smith, Mitchel Forman, Bill Evans, Brett Garsed, Phil Turcio, Scott Henderson, George Whitty, Tom Coster, Dave...

As always, we are dedicated to bringing you the latest bass news and introducing you to bass players you may or may not know. Paul Ranieri should be put on your watch list. Ranieri was born in New York City. From his bio with the Eric Stuart Band: “Influenced early on by the music from cartoons, science fiction and monster...