Name your favorite Bass Recordings

medium jim · « **on:** 2 Oct 2012, 09:24 pm »

There are no qualifiers, all is fair game.

Thanks,
Jim

djmckaytx · « **Reply #1 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 10:04 pm »

A few of my personal favorites...taking the middle of the road.

For An Album By A Bass Player:
Fish Out Of Water - Chris Squire

Best Bass Performance On A Rock Album:
Quadrophenia (The Who) - John Entwistle

Best Acoustic Bass Performance On A Jazz Album:
Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis) - Paul Chambers

medium jim · « **Reply #2 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 10:35 pm »

Mine are anything by Weather Report with Jaco Pastorius. That said, here's one of Jaco with John Scofield:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhkPSEXs1Q&feature=related

Jim

Early B. · « **Reply #3 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 10:54 pm »

Anything by Stanley Clarke, especially this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000027LH/ref=wms_ohs_product

SteveFord · « **Reply #4 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 11:00 pm »

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love, Meet Ze Monster
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition

PSB Guy · « **Reply #5 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 11:09 pm »

The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by the Bill Evans Trio is a fantastic showcase for Scott LaFaro's playing. He died in a car crash ten days after this date.

Cornelis

nickd · « **Reply #6 on:** 2 Oct 2012, 11:21 pm »

Dean Peer "Urcross"
The whole album is a bass freaks treat. Lots of upper harmonics too. It really doesn't get any better.

A few choice cuts from Marcus Miller will test your system beyond its design limits too.

dB Cooper · « **Reply #7 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 12:11 am »

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: the title track from "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" (Great test of extension and solidity)

Little Charlie and the Nightcats, "My Next Ex-Wife" from "Night Vision" (revealing of articulation and definition)

sts9fan · « **Reply #8 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 12:44 am »

10ft Ganja Plant "Mercy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_8Ao_VqhE&sns=em

WGH · « **Reply #9 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 01:33 am »

Rob Wasserman - Duets

audiogoober · « **Reply #10 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 01:56 am »

Anything from Marcus Miller. Stuart Hamm is also killer.

dflee · « **Reply #11 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 02:02 am »

Edgar Meyer & Bela Fleck - Perpetual Motion or
Edgar Bela & Mike Marshal - Uncommon Ritual

coverto · « **Reply #12 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 02:34 am »

Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song" - I can't think of anything that comes close.

Russell Dawkins · « **Reply #13 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 04:02 am »

Anything by Renaud Garcia-Fons.
Arcoluz started my son on an acoustic bass obsession that has not let up yet. Renaud plays a 5 string bass with the extra string on the high side and gets a beautiful tone out of it. It comes apart at the neck for air travel.
http://tinyurl.com/9tq4bf7

Ern Dog · « **Reply #14 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 05:30 am »

Afrocelt Sound Systems: http://www.amazon.com/Capture-1995-2010-Afro-Sound-System/dp/B003WOKCGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1349241762&sr=1-1&keywords=afrocelt+soundsystem

Alanis Morissette "Thank You": http://www.amazon.com/The-Collection-Standard-Edition/dp/B00122KV5O/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1349241968&sr=1-3

Lastly, the new Dead Can Dance cd has lots of deep bass in most of their songs, especially "Opium". This song gives my sub a workout and pressurizes the room and the music is just amazing too: http://www.amazon.com/Anastasis/dp/B008S7EPXA/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349242078&sr=301-1

2gumby2 · « **Reply #15 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 08:51 am »

Almost anything by Bass Mechanik is good. It'll liquify your innards if your subwoofers are up to the task. Sunn O))) in White One and White Two has some pretty serious low frequencies as well.

Delta Wave · « **Reply #16 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 10:12 am »

Quote from: SteveFord on 2 Oct 2012, 11:00 pm

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love, Meet Ze Monster
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition

Mike Watt - Contemplating the Engine Room, pretty much the whole album but the track "Liberty Calls!" in particular.

Vic · « **Reply #17 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 07:56 pm »

Lots of great player mentioned here already.

I'd like to add Bass doubler Brian Bromberg's Wood I and II as well as all his other flavors. The Wood albums have some incredibly well recorded Double Bass that easily demonstrate that low E doesn't stop at 44.1 Hz. Another recording with exceptional Double Bass is Patricia Barber's Cafe Blue. Jim Anderson's recording of Michael Arnopol's Bass on Ode To Billy Joe is amazing.

CSI · « **Reply #18 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 10:16 pm »

On electric, anything by Marcus Miller.

On Double Bass, Kristin Korb.

rockadanny · « **Reply #19 on:** 3 Oct 2012, 10:27 pm »

Adrian Belew, "Side Three", with Les Claypool on bass. Excellent!