I’m currently listening to a lot of music again. Saturday I got John Goldsby’s “The Jazz Bass Book”, and wow I’m so amazed at what I hear even in songs which I thought I knew already (and in some cases played when I was younger).
Here is for instance Reginald Workman, about whom John writes (on page 114, in the chapter “Coltrane and Beyond”:
In 1961, Coltrane let Davis go and hired one of the technically most gifted bassists on the scene at that time, Reggie Workman…
As an example, here’s Wayne Shorter with “Footprints”:
I’m speechless – this is a gold mine…