Damian Erskine Live

This venue looks like it has a really nice streaming/recording set up going. Check out Damian Erskine playing with George Colligan, great tone and crazy tunes. The really scary thing is that it kinda looks like Damian is reading this chart. Yow.

Things Boy Bass Players Like

I guess its Rickenbachers and girls in bikinis?

Probably not in that order either.

Not sure quite what to make of this.

Esperanza Spalding on The Daily Show Last Night

Esperanza brought her 20-something-year-old-'fro and her 12 piece band to the Daily Show last night and it was pretty awesome. Those arrangements are lush and complex, that is some really sophisticated stuff. Check out the harmonies on her singing! All while she is playing fretless too. Dang.

The Look

Here is the full track of "Crowned and Kissed" from Comedy Central

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Marcus Miller "Michael Jackson - Billie Jean"

From some French radio thing it seems like. Marcus playing it all by himself. Killer.

Sulu Must Play Have Played Bass

Hey, it is Leonard Nimoy's birthday today (81) and apparently he was laying down some sick beats during his travels through space that entire time.

Someone on board also packed their Jazz Bass  and was practicing their slapping at warp 8 in between shifts on the bridge of The Enterprise. Now thats a Prime Directive on the ONE baby!

Janek Gwizdala's New Album Launch - It Only Happens Once

Album Launch - It Only Happens Once

Janek is releasing a new album today, and continuing in his tradition of using social media and the web in aggressive ways to promote his music, he is giving the thing away for free. It is part of the pay-what-you-think-it-is-worth model a lot of people are adopting these days. Check it out below, its funky, and has folks like Tim Miller and JoJo Meyer on it, so it is gonna be insane.

He also is touring through Europe over the next few weeks so head out and check him out. His band will be sick, guaranteed. 

Dean Schmidt Live with Kelly Ash

I have posted some clips of Seattle bassist Dean Schmidt before, and here is a new recording from a club in Seattle called Lucid, that records every show and then posts them to Bandcamp. Living in the future is so cool. Check out some of the other sessions they have posted for some of the other acts in Seattle.

This recording is a quartet that has New York (ex-seattle) vocalist Kelly Ash and includes Eric Verlinde on piano, and Jose Martinez on drums. These guys are all some of the top players in Seattle and gig a lot. Like every night a lot. This entire band is sick. This gig was last week so this is fresh stuff.

Seattle Bassist Tim Carey's New Album - Online Tracks Today only

Seattle bassist Tim Carey is about to drop his debut album, "Room 114" and so he has posted half of the tracks on Bandcamp for us to hear. Check out this track called "Ohio Beach":



Tim is an adjunct faculty member of Cornish College here in Seattle and a busy dude, which says a lot about what people think about his playing. He is in several different projects including Hardcoretet, Pocky, Reptet and Sambatuque. That is some pretty wide range of styles right there.

Hardcoretet - Yeti from Hardcoretet on Vimeo.

So if you dig original compositions that aren't in 4/4 with a whole lotta bass soloing and great playing, go check out these tracks and pick up Tim's CD when it hits in the next week or so.