Congrats Chuck!

Needless to say that this is well deserved…

Berklee College of Music Commencement 2022 – Chuck Rainey receives honorary Doctorate in Music

About the statement of the most recorded bass player, I think that title could still be Ron Carter’s. Or with the electric bass, maybe James Jamerson’s. But still, Chuck is worth studying if you care for the low end. His work on Steely Dan’s “Aja” alone is worth it…

So again, a round of applause and congrats to you, Sir!

See also at No Treble, and at Bass Magazine. Or at the site of Berklee College of Music.

By the way: in an interview with Cory Wong and Victor Wooten which I saw yesterday, Victor told us that Chuck is in fact older than the (first commercially available) electric bass. Incredible, and worth listening to if you care for the bass.

“Wollen wir spielen?”, and “Über’m Horizont”

Two tracks from me this time, first on a typical Spanish theme from Pat:

This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.

and then on some more “World” type of song, with a template from Don and an awesome entry and first upload/remix from NickWyver:

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Changed both titles to German because I could… πŸ˜‰ Thanks to my friends and to Richard from Wikiloops as always, and thanks to you for listening πŸ™‚

Morgennebel

Such a nice and jazzy track from notebynote, Blazer, and Tofzegrit, couldn’t resist to add my bass to it. And since I’m still practising thumb position on my upright, I chose the fretless instead:

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Thanks to my friends and to Wikiloops for the fun as always, and thanks to you for listening πŸ™‚

What a cool place to hang out…

… because there’s always great music at Emmet’s Place:

Emmet Cohen w/ Mar Vilaseca | Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)
Emmet Cohen w/ Erena Terakubo & Yotam Silberstein | I’ll Remember April
Emmet Cohen w/ Lucy Yeghiazaryan | People Will Say We’re in Love

Also, this:

Live From Emmet’s Place Vol. 87 – Ukraine Benefit (Jazz4Ukraine)

Enjoy… πŸ™‚

Lost Time (+ one take upright)

Tried my upright today on a piece from David & Xavi, just a one take impro over some kind of Spanish theme:

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As always, thanks to my friends and to Wikiloops for the music, and thanks to you for listening to it πŸ™‚

Qotd, from Feb 8th, 2022

And this quote of the day comes from Rick Beato:

“Before ProTools, there were Pros…”

Rick Beato
The WEIRDEST Pop Song Intro of All Time

As always, thanks for viewing.

Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts

These are cool cats from Japan, playing the music from “Cowboy Bebop”:

TANK! Virtual Session 2020 by SEATBELTS Produced by Yoko Kanno

And here’s kind of an about from the late 2021 Netflix series:

Yoko Kanno + The Music of Cowboy Bebop | Netflix

A must see in my opinion. Pure beauty through and through. And nothing beats some cool, or rather hot hard bop. Enjoy.

More? Here you go… and here are some more… love the girl and the dog πŸ˜‰ And these two were particularly amazing:

What a band. And what a composer. Chapeau!

For the original motion picture soundtrack, look and listen here.