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Steve Brown, the 1920’s jazz bass pioneer who played with Bix.
Dig this side from 1927…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKi6-g7gRJY
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
ok,
I'll drop in my 3.
Cristian Mcbride - groove and creativity
Ray Brown- All the reasons, totally all about the sound and the time!
James Robbins - Luckily I've been blessed to occasionally play with him . . and damn! This man is always in service to the music.
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I'd go for
Antonio Lucusati - known for his work with Angelo Debarre
Roy Percy - who plays with Tim Kliphuis
and my friend and talented tattoo artist - Venus Flytrap or Charlotte Patterson as she is known.
I think Simon Planting deserves a nod. Not only is he the artistic director at DFNW, but he is onstage thru the whole festival as the house bassist.
Simon is also my personal (Band In a Box) bassist.
Scott LaFaro
Ray Brown
Slam Stewart
Not sure I could do a top 3, but a name not mentioned yet is Henri Texier. An Indian's Week is easily one of my top 5 records.
So many incredible bassists in the Django realm, it would be hard for me to pick my top three.
@JSanta wow! thanks for that - I have a bunch of disc's he's on, and worked (once, long ago . . .lol) with a bunch of the same free jazz artists; had no idea - now I will have to dig deeper on Henri Texier!
I'd recommend the following to get a good idea of his own work:
An Indian's Week
Mosaic Man
Mad Nomads
Those are a good place to start. Stephane Wrembel was the one that introduced Henri to me, and he covered my favorite Texier tune, Laguna Laïta on one of the Django Experiment records. He's such a chameleon as a composer and musician, and I always find something new whenever I listen to one of his albums.
@JSanta is he related to the excellent violinist Scott Texier (who was in NYC for a minute, and then was teaching at UNT)?