BFT #29 Disc 2 Answers

[Upright Bill]

The Bassists selected for Disc 2 are:

Sam Jones: Jazz Bassist and cellist.

Percy Heath: Impeccable time and ecellent note choices mark this cornerstone of Jazz history.

Red Callender: Charles Mingus' first Bass instructor

Wilbur Ware: While others of his era were focused on Jimmy Blanton's harmonic and melodic innovations, Wilbur was expanding Blanton's rhythmic style.

Ahmed Abdul-Malik: Ahmed Abdul-Malik was one of the first musicians to integrate non-Western musical elements into jazz

John Ore: Monk's Bassist from 1960 to 1963. While playing with Jazz's best he studied Bass at Juilliard.

George Morrow: Participated in the some of the classic recordings of modern Jazz with Clifford Brown and Max Roach. After leaving Max Roach he ended up in the house band at Disney World.

Red Mitchell: Tuning his Bass in fifths instead of the usual fourths gave him a very unique sound and range. Hearing this album for the first time caused me to switch from electric bass guitar to Upright Bass.

Leroy Vinnegar: Every Bassist looks to Leroy Vinnegar's walking lines. Leroy worked with all of teh West Coast Jazz Greats

Monk Montgomery: This brother to Wes Montgomery was the first Bassist to play Jazz seriously on the Fender Bass.

Curtis Counce: The Bop era's must underrated Bassist.

Rufus Reid: I met Rufus Reid at the Jamey Abersold Summer Jazz workshop. In addition to being an amazing Bassist and Bass educator he is one of the kindest, caring human beings I have ever met.

Lynn Seaton:I met Lynn at the Jamey Abersold Summer Jazz workshop where Uncle Skid and I shared Sushi with him. Lynn is my favorite living Bassist.

[Upright Bill]

The cuts for Disc 2 are:

Album: Song

Changes And Things: Sam's Things

The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1: Turnpike (alternate take)

Bebop Revisited Volume 1: Mischievous Lady

The Chicago Sound: Be-Ware

Jazz Sounds Of Africa: La Ibkey

Cecil Payne: Scotch and Milk : Scotch and Milk

Clifford Brown: Study in Brown: George's Dilemma

Chocolate Cadillac: Chocolate Cadillac

Leroy Walks Again!: Motherland

The Mastersounds: I Could Write A Book

Sonority: Bella Rosa

Passing Thoughts: Hotel Le Hot

Soloflights: Ode To Jimi

[MartyJazz]

Nice to see that I was able to ID quite a few of the sidemen if not the actual bassists you were highlighting. I'm especially patting myself on the back right now for correctly guessing Idrees Sulieman on trumpet for Red Mitchell's feature on "Chocolate Cadillac".

On another note however, I lament your decision to provide links to the albums rather than actually listing the session leaders with personnel and dates. It's gonna make my update to the BFT track list slow going.

Good choice of music on both discs in terms of your overall theme.

Edited October 3, 2005 by MartyJazz

[Upright Bill]

Nice to see that I was able to ID quite a few of the sidemen if not the actual bassists you were highlighting.  I'm especially patting myself on the back right now for correctly guessing Idrees Sulieman on trumpet for Red Mitchell's feature on "Chocolate Cadillac".

On another note however, I lament your decision to provide links to the albums rather than actually listing the session leaders with personnel and dates.  It's gonna make my update to the BFT track list slow going.

Good choice of music on both discs in terms of your overall theme. 

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I apologize for the way I listed the answers. I would have liked to have given more info about the bassists as well as listing all of the sidemen. However, time did not permit. I will attempt to assist you as much as possible.

[MartyJazz]

Nice to see that I was able to ID quite a few of the sidemen if not the actual bassists you were highlighting.  I'm especially patting myself on the back right now for correctly guessing Idrees Sulieman on trumpet for Red Mitchell's feature on "Chocolate Cadillac".

On another note however, I lament your decision to provide links to the albums rather than actually listing the session leaders with personnel and dates.  It's gonna make my update to the BFT track list slow going.

Good choice of music on both discs in terms of your overall theme. 

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I apologize for the way I listed the answers. I would have liked to have given more info about the bassists as well as listing all of the sidemen. However, time did not permit. I will attempt to assist you as much as possible.

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No need, I just like to bitch once in a while. I went through all the links and got all the info I need for the update. However it would be nice to know who the horn players were on some dates in which the allmusic.com did not provide key personnel, e.g., the TanaReid date.