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	Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jazz is a musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
		At the root of jazz is the blues, the folk music of former African slaves in the American South and their descendants, heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions, that evolved as fl musicians migrated to the cities -- most notably, the Storyville district of New Orleans -- in the late 19th century.
		Early jazz influences found their first mainstream expression in the marching band music of the day, which was the standard form of popular concert music at the turn of century.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/j/ja/jazz.html (2615 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of jazz bassists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation.
		Dave Holland (born October 1, 1946) is a jazz bassist and composer.
		Bassist Steve Rodby was born in December of 1954 in Joliet, Illinois.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-jazz-bassists (1049 words)

	Jazz Police - The Bottom Line: Uncovering the Bassists
		From the most talented veteran to the student musician, bass players are the least appreciated in jazz, their solo efforts an apparent signal that there is a pause in the action, an intermission, the opportunity to start a conversation, order a drink, or otherwise take a breather from serious (or not-so-serious) listening.
		Bassists typically "walk" (a steady one-note-per-beat), and by playing on top, in the middle, or behind the beat, they push or pull the tempo for the rest of the band.
		Usually it is the bassist's role to maintain the structure and help establish the chord changes that support the melody and harmony.
	www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/4705/2 (1444 words)

	Lex Valk ~ My Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bassist Alexis Valk is a versatile performer equally at home playing jazz, classical music, or broadway shows.
		Bassist Valk is a graduate of The New England Conservatory and Ball State University, where he obtained his master’s and doctorate’s degrees.
		His versatility was a hallmark of his college teaching career, where as a classical performer he competed in an international bass competition in 1978 and took jazz combos under his direction to the Wichita Jazz Festival, where they took first place in 1977 and ’78.
	www.neosoft.com /~lexvalk/bio.html (270 words)

	The Jazz Bass Book by John Goldsby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jazz music and jazz bass playing developed from the collective experiences of musicians in the 20th century.
		Jimmy Blanton, bassist with Duke Ellington's band from 1939&endash;41, is named by many as the father of modern jazz bass.
		Bassists have become technical wizards, due in part to influences from the electric bass and from advances in classical bass technique.
	www.john.goldsby.de /The_Jazz_Bass_Book.html (1152 words)

	Jazz at Lincoln Center - Newsflash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dave Holland is of a generation of bassists who, in the 1960s and 1970s, built upon the innovations of slightly older players like Scott LaFaro, Gary Peacock and Barre Phillips, carrying the instrument to yet another new level of creativity.
		Currently, Jazz at Lincoln Center is building its new home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first-ever education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, slated to open in fall 2004.
		Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
	www.jazzatlincolncenter.org /jalc/news/archive/030318-news.html (1569 words)

	Backbeat Books - The Jazz Bass Book
		With exclusive interviews, transcriptions, and profiles, The Jazz Bass Book reveals the secrets of key jazz bassists and demonstrates their place in the art form's development, from early New Orleans jazz through swing, bebop, and the avant-garde.
		Bassists get expert guidance on mastering proper technique, practice methods, and improvisation, plus new insight into the theoretical and conceptual aspects of jazz.
		Goldsby currently is solo bassist with the world-renowned WDR Big Band, based at the radio and TV station in Cologne, Germany.
	www.backbeatbooks.com /?n=Bass&c=4&p=0879307161&s=E8DEFC57-E7FF-F1E7-34106F5B8F1CA7BB (466 words)

	Jazz Me News December 2002
		His creativity established goals for several generations of bassists who agree that the "Judge" elevated the bass from "back of the bandstand" to a feature role in modern jazz orchestras.
		Despite the tremendous fame the bassist achieved, this was the first time he was featured as the star performer at a major event.
		From the entire Riverwalk Jazz gang down at the Landing in San Antonio, we wish you a warm, happy and contented holiday season with family and friends.
	www.riverwalk.org /JMN/Archive/html/JMN12_01_02.htm (2413 words)

	JS Online: Bassist Carter keeps filling in career
		Jazz bassists do a lot of the heavy lifting and get little of the glory.
		Traditionally, bassists help drummers keep time, assist pianists with chord and key changes and provide a firm bottom to a group's lower register.
		Carter, 67, may be the most honored living jazz bassist in terms of awards won, poll rankings, peer recognition and academic achievement.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/mar05/309831.asp (814 words)

	Down Beat Magazine
		During the nights of the Monterey Jazz Festival, this room is restricted (theoretically) to the use of artists, the press, photographers, and others having direct business with the festival.
		In the center of a rude circle, a half dozen or more of the greatest names among jazz bassists were raptly listening to and watching the man whom all of them acknowledged the greatest bassist of them all.
		It is a curiosity of jazz history that a significant percentage of musicians play the instruments they do solely by accidents of high school availability.
	www.downbeat.com /?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=804 (3008 words)

	Jazz MP3 Links @ jazzreview.com
		Many of the practicing jazz musicians, particularly those in the Los Angeles area or those who join Berg on S.S. Norway jazz cruises, know about his superb technical facility on the piano, especially when he pays tribute during performance to one of his inspirations, Oscar Peterson.
		But his greatest source of pride is the boost he has provided for jazz education, both as the head of jazz studies at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and as the former president of the International Association of Jazz Educators.
		And even for jazz enthusiasts who had considered Berg to be a technically astounding and aggressive pianist with unstoppable energy, Blackbird reveals a more contemplative, but no less creative, side of his personality.
	www.jazzreview.com /mp3s.cfm (1455 words)

	Larry Gray
		One of the finest living jazz bassists has been the Chicago standard for two decades.
		He's played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and nearly every touring jazz dignitary, especially at Joe Segal's, where he was the longtime house bassist.
		Gray, who switched from guitar to his present instrument at an unusually advanced age -- 20 -- has fantastic solo technique, but -- even more importantly, has a great sense of musical balance, whether the music be pre-bop or post-fusion.
	centerstage.net /music/whoswho/LarryGray.html (94 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Dave Holland — front and center
		SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Jazz bassists are typically cast in a supporting rather than a leading role, relegated to the back of the bandstand with the rhythm section.
		Last year, Holland outdid the many jazz greats who preceded him when he became the first musician ever to sweep four categories in both Down Beat magazine's critics and readers polls — jazz artist, jazz album (for his quintet CD "Not For Nothin' "), acoustic group and acoustic bassist of the year.
		He won the Grammy for best large jazz ensemble for his CD "What Goes Around," and the group was chosen the top big band in the Down Beat critics poll.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,575040941,00.html (1345 words)

	Scott LaFaro: Beacon for Jazz Bassists -- Home Page
		Those who have found the Bill Evans Jazz Resource on the Internet know of the profound interplay among Paul Motian, Scott LaFaro and Bill Evans in a jazz trio that for many musicians to this day remains a model of sonority, complexity, and swing.
		It is the sense of harmonic exploration and discovery, challenge and response, time's ebb and flow, that draws one to listen again and again to Portrait in Jazz, Explorations, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, and Waltz For Debby.
		These recordings are as fresh today as when they were first made, and together serve as an archetype of the jazz piano trio.
	www.geocities.com /chuck_ralston/08_slf.htm (818 words)

	Jazz Club 900 the biography and discography of jazz musicians, artists and players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MARCO TAMBURINI Cesena (FO) 30/05/1959 Diploma in trumpet obtained in 1979 at the "G.B Martini" Conservatory of Bologna.
		He starts his activity as a professional jazz player in 1984.
		He teached at the CPM of Siena Jazz and was professor of Jazz at the "Morlacchi" Conservatory of Perugia.
	www.jazz900.com /prg/file_art.asp?qa=7 (253 words)

	Earshot Jazz Festival \| Concerts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The most versatile and tirelessly inventive drummer in progressive jazz, as experienced in improvised music as in jazz experimentation, leads an angular, enthralling quartet featuring Herb Robertson, the maverick Downtown trumpeter, and Ellery Eskelin, one of the most creative and eclectic of the saxophonists on that scene.
		She blended it with everything from the classics to funk, and emerges as one of the most promising talents in modern piano jazz.
		Of their recent CD, Jazz Times magazine said, "This is one of the most important jazz albums to appear in more than a decade." And the Washington Post said, "These Are the Vistas isn't just a breath of fresh air, it's a tornado.
	www.earshot.org /fest2003/concerts.html (1784 words)

	Ron Carter \| Official Site of Jazz Bassist Ron Carter \| acoustic bass, walking bass, jazz master, jazz legend, jazz ...
		He recently retired (as Distinguished Professor) from heading the Jazz Program at The City College of New York (CUNY) and is on the board of directors of the Harlem Jazz Music Center.
		He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
		He was Artistic Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Studies while it was located in Boston and, after 18 years on the faculty of the Music Department of The City College of New York, he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus although, as a performer, he remains as active as ever.
	www.roncarter.net /officialSite.html (639 words)

	music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We see that the bassists in jazz have sounds rooted in these two leader in the art.
		Then the next step--larger than any progression in Jazz bass playing (even jazz as the art-form)--we see that bassist would clearly be Charles Mingus (since his influence to bassist is just a part, his influence went much further into the jazz community all together).
		Now every bassist looks up to these bassists; moreover, 99.9% of bassists have been affected by at least one of those top three jazz bassists directly or indirectly.
	www.math.uiuc.edu /~mnorfle2/music.html (192 words)

	Fourplay Jazz - Nathan East
		East played along with the recordings of jazz bassists Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Charles Mingus, Buster Williams, Scott LaFaro, Motown's James Jamerson, James Brwn, Sly Stone with Larry Graham, Cream, and horn bands like Chicago, Tower of Power, and Blood, Sweat and Tears as they came over the radio or out of his record player.
		The young bassist began playing in his high school's jazz ensemble, marching band, choir, chorus, and pep band, as well as Top 40 bands.
		James East is the bassist with Sergio Mendes and Marce East is a guitarist/songwriter/producer working with Nathan on a group called Two Faces of East.
	www.fourplayjazz.com /natehome.htm (727 words)

	- SHOP.COM
		Jazz bassists play the foundation of the music; the power of the low sound radiates throughout the music and holds all the other musicians together.
		This book explores the development of the jazz bass techniques -- from slap bass and bowing to pizzicato -- by tracing the work of the great innovators on the instrument.
		Deep Down in Music also brings out the unique qualities jazz bassists must possess -- as the anchors of big bands, members of rhythm sections, composers, passionate soloists, and even leaders of their own groups.
	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p27878792 (266 words)

	a l b a n y j a z z . c o m
		Remarkably, the village of Chatham is home to the other local great jazz bassist, Otto Gardner, who happens to live down the street from Toigo, and is Lincoln's partner in "Me and the Mailman"
		While Gardner doesn't have the professional resume that Mayorga has, the Mailman definitely has the chops and musicality that rival the top jazz double bassists -- plus he is filled with the passion that only someone who has been straining at the bit to get to his instrument has.
		While most of their Wednesday night audience has the duo in third place for attention -- behind their dinner partners and their food, attentive listeners are rewarded with the complex back and forth between the two.
	www.albanyjazz.com /interview-lincolnmayorga.html (641 words)

	Biography - Dave Holland (Bio 89) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dave Holland is of a generation of bassists that, in the '60s and '70s, built upon the innovations of slightly-older players like Scott LaFaro, Gary Peacock, and Barre Phillips, carrying the instrument to yet another new level of creativity.
		In Holland's case, those refinements never lost touch with the core verities of straight-ahead jazz; Holland's sense of swing is unexcelled.
		Additionally, Holland is possibly the most accomplished pure jazz composer among bassists, after Charles Mingus.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb0/Bio_89.htm (848 words)

	Biography - Dave Holland
		Other than a brief period of piano lessons, he was largely self-taught, practicing with records featuring great jazz bassists such as Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar, and frequenting local jazz clubs.
		By his second year at Guildhall, he was principle bassist in the school orchestra and discovering contemporary classical composers whom he came to admire—particularly Bela Bartok.
		The Holland Quintet, formed the summer of 1997 with Steve Wilson, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson and Billy Kilson was voted #1 Acoustic Jazz Group of the Year in the Down Beat Critics' Poll.
	www.iaje.org /ejfo_bio.asp?ArtistID=66 (517 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz \| The Web's Ultimate Guide to Jazz
		Joe P. Smith is a photographer and artist absorbed in an artistic quest that comprises photography, the graphic media and painting and his recent works are often a combination of these.
		His preference is for monochrome photography especially those depicting the performing arts and his name has become synonymous with pictures of Jazz musicians who performed in the Malta Jazz Festival of which he has been the official photographer since the first edition in 1991.
		He has also spent five years as the resident photographer of the experimental theatre group Politeatru between 1987 and 1993 with whom he travelled to Moscow in 1991 and staged an exhibition of theatrical photography at the Russian Federation Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /gallery/jsmith_bass.htm (539 words)

	Jazz with Jerry Brabenec
		MP3s from jazz LPs of the 50s and other stuff of interest to jazz bassists.
		Bassist with the ii-V-I Orchestra in Ann Arbor, Michigan since the early 90s.
		The bassist is Roland "Rolly" Bundock, a veteran who performed at Carnegie Hall with Glenn Miller in 1939.
	jbrabenec.blogspot.com (1344 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		Whether on electric or acoustic bass, just listening to the converations between such brilliant bassists as Stanley Clarke, Gary Willis, Alphonso Johnson, Avishai Cohen and their fellow musicians, is enough to fill volumes on the subject of bass styles.
		ALL ABOUT JAZZ: Your conversational style is distinctively different from the sonics laid down by Avishai Cohen when he's on electric bass, Stanley Clarke of Vertu or say, Gary Willis of Tribal Tech.
		ALL ABOUT JAZZ: Drummer Omar Hakim shares his rhythm and pulsating grooves on LOWBLOW in a way that youÂ’ve described as Â“instant communication.Â” Your Â“bass-icÂ” conversations with him are spectacular.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /iviews/vbailey.htm?no_auto=1 (2449 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Artist Pages
		They know nothing about the preponderance of fine women jazz musicians from the ’40s and ’50s, fl and white, who were not only admired by their fellow male musicians, but were highly respected for their great musicianship, too.
		I profess to be ignorant of some of the younger generation, as I’m mostly listening to fine jazz these days, and I admire the jazz bassists, for the most part.
		Yet this extended conversation with Kaye is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg in her story, which is why her biography is eagerly anticipated by bassists, guitarists, and anyone with an appreciation for the history of American jazz and popular music.
	vguitar.com /artists/details.asp?ID=41 (5632 words)

	Jazz Bulletin Board - acoustic bassists
		December 20th, 2003 08:14 AM Rather than assault you with an exhaustive list of great acoustic jazz bassists, which would be very long indeed, I'm going to suggest that you start with two albums that offer the sound you dig.
		You also have the bonus of hearing one of the most direct and appealing drummers in the genre (Erskine) and Garbarek playing his backside off on what many thought was his last 'jazz' album for many years.
		December 29th, 2003 06:22 AM A wonderful bassist probably unknown beyond the UK yet heard by everyone in the UK who has been to more than a few jazz concerts.
	forums.allaboutjazz.com /printthread.php?t=2855 (902 words)

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