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ADX

(1,622 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:29 PM Jul 2018

World-class pocket funk...

Quincy Jones featuring the Brothers Johnson with Harvey Mason on drums...

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World-class pocket funk... (Original Post) ADX Jul 2018 OP

I worked on a music video for the Brothers Johnson ... kwassa Jul 2018 #1

Louis worked that Music Man bass out, no doubt... ADX Jul 2018 #2

Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten, too. kwassa Jul 2018 #3

Two more phenomenal bassists but since we're talking jazz... ADX Jul 2018 #4

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

1. I worked on a music video for the Brothers Johnson ...

Reply to ADX (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:04 PM

Jul 2018

about 1980 or so. On a stage at A&M Records that had been built originally by Charlie Chaplin in like 1916.

Louis Johnson was an incredible bass player.

ADX

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2. Louis worked that Music Man bass out, no doubt...

Reply to kwassa (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:15 PM

Jul 2018

...very under-rated bassist but right up there with Larry Graham, et al.

Stanley Clarke is still the king though...

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

3. Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten, too.

Reply to ADX (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 05:47 PM

Jul 2018

on the jazz side of things.

Louis did the famous bass line on "Billie Jean". He was all over many records, and said that he always wrote his own bass line.

ADX

(1,622 posts)

4. Two more phenomenal bassists but since we're talking jazz...

Reply to kwassa (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 06:06 PM

Jul 2018

...we absolutely MUST show respect to Jaco Pastorious:

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