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.

New Gary Willis Tune, "Change Agent" Live

From Gary's upcoming CD, he tears through a tune called "Change Agent" with his new trio consisting of Albert Bover on keyboards and Gergo Borlai on drums. A serious solo in there, folks.

Another sale at Lulu - 20% off

They are having another 20% off sale. And no, that doesn't mean they delete the last 15 pages of the books, it means now that the Book of Triad ebooks are only $7.99 and the Book of Chord Tones print books are only 15.99. Thats cheap.

John Patitucci Master Class at UW - Part 1

Mr. Patitucci gave a free public master class yesterday at University of Washington. John studied with the chair of the bass department before and they go way back, so Patatucci was an artists in residence for this week. He is giving a master class for jazz players, (thats what is below) and then for classical players later this week, and finally a concert.

Take a listen below to the class, recorded on my Ipod with an mic attached, just sitting in the room. But the quality is still fine, it will be just like you are there through the magic of technology.

Here is more info on the week with Patitucci:

http://www.music.washington.edu/news/?mode=detail&id=139

John Patitucci Master Class Part 01