One of the absolutely greasiest, funkiest groove styles in the history of the electric bass comes from the great Funky Meters bassist, George Porter, Jr. Here’s a fantastic solo he played with the New Orleans All Stars in 2009. Share

Today’s VotD comes because I woke up and couldn’t stop thinking about Matt Garrison’s exceptionally clean playing. So, I went back to one of my favorite things he’s posted in the past couple of years. This solo is incredible on so many levels! Share

A very cool video for you guys to check out this weekend, here is the great Eddie Gomez playing alongside the jazz piano texture king, Bill Evans, in a rare duo format. In this video, they play Evans’ (now) standard, Waltz For Debby. Share

One of our favorites around these parts, Pino Palladino can be seen here playing his “second career” of music with D’Angelo on the Chris Rock Show (remember when they let Chris Rock have a talk show?). The tune is “Chicken Grease” the album is Voodoo. If you don’t own it, you’ve missed out on the [...]

While posting videos of these three guys is such a no-brainer that we try to avoid it at all costs, this is the only video we ran across on YouTube that is pro-shot. So, here are Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten (known in this configuration as SMV) playing Michael Jackson’s iconic “Beat It”. [...]

Today’s Video of the Day comes via an artist submission, and when we saw it, we could NOT turn down the opportunity to push it in front of your eyes! Andy C Saxton, a bassist out of London has just released a new record, Evolution of the Thumb. From everything we’ve gotten to hear/see so [...]

Well, it’s Sunday, so let’s check out this Gospel-infused Video of the Day, coming courtesy of Justin “Rafiki” Raines. Not much explanation needed, Justin just dominates this tune. Bass Frontiers Managing Editor, Matt O’Donnell: “When I saw Justin play a Singer’s Showcase show just before he graduated Berklee, and I had only been there for [...]

Here’s a tune we’ve all heard a thousand times out of a bass player we all know. Most people, however, have never gotten to see or hear it done by Jaco in this smaller combo comfiguration as opposed to the Word of Mouth big band. Luckily, he retains the great Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Peter [...]

Look at this Video of the Day where upright jazz greats Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Ray Brown BOTH swing and solo with the late Oscar Peterson on “You Look Good To Me” at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1977. Niels famously never (well, rarely, but essentially never) traveled to the United States to gig, but [...]

This Video of the Day proves that there’s more than one Victor who can tap on the bass! Victor Bailey, who famously replaced Jaco Pastorius in Weather Report (in addition to gigs with Sonny Rollins, Miriam Makeba, Larry Coryell, Lenny White, Mike Stern, Dennis Chambers, Poogie Bell, Weather Report, Michael Brecker, LL Cool J, Kenny [...]