3 favorite bassists?

bbwood_98

OK digging the discovery of so many artists from you all that I didn't know about . . . in this trend please answer the following question:

Who are your 3 favorite bassists, and why?

Thanks,

Ben

Stringswinger

Paul Chambers

Ray Brown

Percy Heath

(Sam Jones was a close 4th)

Why? Their groove of course.

MikeK

PC was my #1, but has been mentioned.

Doug Watkins

Butch Warren

Bob Cranshaw.

Because they do what we all should be doing... serve the music.

rudolfochrist

Louis Vola

Edouard Pennes

Christian McBride

because of their je ne sais quoi 😅

geese_com

Victor Wooten

Jaco Pastorius

James Jamerson

Phil

NHØP

Dave Holland

Marcus Miller

...why? Listen and you'll hear!☺️

SwedeinLA

Niels Henning ørstedt Petersen , Katie thiroux, Anthony Crawford (Jeff Berlin)......and of course Lemmy🤟

Willie

Ron Carter

Charlie Mingus

Jaco Pastorius

Buco

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/111041#Comment_111041

Beat me to it haha

Lemmy

Koja from Disciplina Kičme or, while he was part of London scene, Disciplin A Kitschme

William Brunard

Oh, the why's...

Lemmy, because like Django he truly lived to play music. And made of the best grooves in all of rock music with Ace of Spades.

Koja, because he's a visionary. Don't know of anyone else who, during 80s, played bass pretty much like a guitar with distortion and wah pedal, got a great tone out of it too.

William, besides being one of the best living upright bassists, because of how motivated he is. Take a look at his cello playing nowadays. Everybody who achieves mastery, as he did with bass and previously on guitar, and as soon as that happened, they take a student chair all over again, that person deserves a good look.

Matteo

Slam Stewart

Jimmy Blanton

Bootsy Collins

guitarmike

Sani van Mullem