A: I hesitated to answer this because of the inherently subjective nature of the question. My top 10 albums are not likely to coincide with yours, but I ultimately decided that for that reason alone, I should answer the question! Maybe I’ll turn somebody on to something. If nothing else, it’s a great opportunity to get other lists as well.
I couldn’t possibly rate them, so I’ll just list some of my most musically inspiring albums. These are the albums that got me shedding, made me consider my voice or just struck me as music everybody bassist should hear.
I have to list this one as it completely changed my perspective in college. The freedom Victor Wooten has on his instrument. The deep groove and time-feel. I just didn’t know you could do that, to state it simply (and I think that a lot of us felt the same way). This album opened my eyes to the reality that one could do anything they wanted when creating art. This album made me want to really explore my bass and what it could do.
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In my opinion, still the best live album on the planet. After having quit playing bass for 7 years to focus on drums (from 13 – 20), this album is the reason that I picked it back up again. The thing I love about Jaco Pastorius is that he was coming from an R&B background. He played jazz as if it was soul music, and I think that is the thing that made him so unique. This album is that band at it’s best, I think.
Munir Hossn is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting and satisfying musicians to come around in a long time. This album specifically just couldn’t be any better, to my ears. So musical, so rhythmically happening, so listenable… This is just about the only album I’ve listened to since it came out and one of the few that I listen to from front to back without skipping anything. Absolutely perfection. I want to be Munir when I grow up.
It’s insincere for me to actually pick just one of Avishai Cohen’s albums. I have them all and really love most of them. It’s not Avishai’s bass playing that gets me, though. It’s his compositions and rhythmic sensibilities. This trio was one of my favorites of his many incarnations, but you should also check out the larger ensemble recordings as well. Really fantastic music! I feel like getting hooked on Avishai’s music gave me a better sense of scope in my approach to music.
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Influence on my playing in college and beyond. I much preferred their live shows to any of the albums (you just couldn’t capture those guys in a bottle in the 90’s. I think they were the best live non-jazz band of the 90’s). Everybody bassist should be aware of Oteil from his early days straight on through his time with the Allman Brothers and beyond. A class act and of my favorite bassists of all time.
Pino Palladino, Raphael Saadiq and Charlie Hunter (playing bass and guitar simultaneously in his specialized way) all have bass credits on this album, and it is the gold standard for “neo-soul” groove playing (D’Angelo also played all instruments on “One Mo’ Gin”). I feel like every one of D’Angelo’s albums should be required for any bassist interested in learning how to really groove. I had to pick one so…
This is the album that fully introduced me to both Anthony Jackson and latin jazz in a meaningful way. I wore this puppy out! A masterfully played latin jazz piano trio album and one I reference often in my mind when playing similar styles.
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This album by Dave Holland killed me back in the day. This was my introduction to Kevin Eubanks, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, and crew. Aggressive, beautiful, modern, swinging… This was the first time I thought to myself, “maybe something can swing AND be awesome” (I really didn’t like jazz much back in the day. Beyond
Meshell Ndegeocello changed my world with her first two albums (they’re all great in one way or another but man… those first two? Whoooooo!) The groove is THICK and her playing is phenomenal. She embodies the groove. So deep. Either this or
It’s hard for me to pick a single Richard Bona album, but he had a severe impact on me when I first heard him. That voice and that playing?! what? The beautiful thing is that his albums are incredibly musical and beautiful. He doesn’t do a lot of the flashier stuff from his live shows – it’s all about the songs and the band as a whole. Bona changed my world when I first heard him. I had the pleasure of playing alongside him for a week at the Blue Note in Tokyo (with the Jaco Pastorius Big Band tribute band) and he was a wonderful hang. A very sweet dude and one hell of a player.
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Okay, that’s my 10! Let’s hear it from you all. What albums helped to shape you into the player you are today? Please share your list in the comments.
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Related Topics: Anthony Jackson, Avishai Cohen, Dave Holland, discussion, Jaco Pastorius, Meshell Ndegeocello, Munir Hossn, Oteil Burbridge, Pino Palladino, Raphael Saadiq, Richard Bona, Victor WootenCan you believe that? The album that took edgy hard rock from the streets of North Hollywood and blasted it into the Stratosphere, G’n’R’s finest long player is still a benchmark for sweaty, attitude-filled rock. Guitarists love it for sure, but so do millions of non-playing music fans and everyday people who have turned to it for party tunes and driving anthems ever since. It’s just a part of our worldwide culture now, threaded through so many other situations and mediums that we all nowadays know the album inside out, even if we’ve never chosen to consciously put it on for a listen.
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That got us thinking: what other albums are like that? Albums performed mainly with guitars, which have reached a massive global audience? Basically, what are the best guitar albums ever? It’s one of the massively open-ended questions that can never hope to achieve satisfying answers for everyone, especially if you limit it to ten solitary choices out of the millions that must now exist.
Not an easy prospect! But we still figured we’d have a shot! Why not? We made the decision that worldwide influence was an important factor, and that such an audience be more than just fellow musicians. To that end, we’ve opted to dismiss the likes of
Because, though undoubtedly incredible, they are very niche albums that tend to appeal to a much more select ‘guitar freak’ audience than the universal love enjoyed by a band like, say, Led Zeppelin. We’re going for the big game-changers, here!
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It put Slash’s top hat, cigarette and Les Paul combo on the map as a legitimately iconic rock image, and Axl Rose as a vocalist par excellence, not to mention as a hell-raising prima donna. The standard was, in fact, so high that the band arguably never matched the highs of their debut, but really: how many bands
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