- John Patitucci
John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz double bass and electric bass player, specializing in post-bop, jazz fusion and Brazilian jazz. - Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, USA) is a singer/bassist, best known for his work with the alternative rock band Primus. Claypool's mastery of the electric bass has brought him into the spotlight with his funky, creative playing style. Claypool mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like strumming, a similar double-thumb technique used by Victor Wooten and others, … - Christian McBride
Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors. In the jazz community, McBride is widely considered to be one of the best bassists of his generation. McBride has performed and recorded with a huge number of jazz legends, including Diana Krall, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, … - Victor Bailey
Victor Bailey (born March 27 1960 in Philadelphia) is an American bass player. Bailey attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston after being disqualified from naval service due to asthma. Bailey has played and recorded with Omar Hakim, Sonny Rollins, Miriam Makeba, Larry Coryell, Lenny White, Hamiet Bluiet, Olu Dara, Don Alias, Sadao Watanabe, Michael Urbaniak, Ursula Dudziak, Roy Haynes, Tom Browne, Bobby Broom, Kenny Kirkland, Bernard Wright, Mike Stern, … - Jeff Berlin
Jeff Berlin (born January 17, 1953) is an American electric bass player. Since the mid-1970s, he has been known for his virtuosic jazz fusion and prog rock bass playing. Some consider him to be among the top living electric bass players. - Anthony Jackson
Anthony Jackson, (born 1952) is a contemporary American electric bass player based in New York City. By those who know his playing, musicians and non-musicians alike, he is considered a master, who has furthered the technical and idiomatic boundaries of his instrument. He is seen by many to have added considerable legitimacy to the instrument in more jazz-related musical contexts, though he has had a career that has gone beyond that style. - Richard Bona
Richard Bona is a jazz musician and bassist, was born in October 28, 1967 in the town of Minta, in eastern Cameroon. Bona was born into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age. His grandfather was a singer ("griot") and percussionist, and his mother was a singer. At 4 years old, he started to play the balafon. At the age of 5, he began performing at his village church. - Alphonso Johnson
Alphonso Johnson (born 1951 in Philadelphia, PA) is a jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s. - Carol Kaye
Carol Kaye (born March 24, 1935) is an American electric bass player and Los Angeles session musician who performed on hit records during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Kaye worked on several Phil Spector, David Axelrod and Brian Wilson productions, was the bassist for The Zodiac, played guitar on Ritchie Valens' La Bamba and is credited with the bass tracks on several Simon and Garfunkel hits. Among her most often cited work, Kaye anchored the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. - Jimmy Haslip
Jimmy Haslip is an electric bass player and record producer best known as a founding and current member of the pioneering fusion group The Yellowjackets. He was also an early user of the 5-string electric bass. Haslip is notable for his versatiliy of tone, including being able to very closely achieve the tone of an upright acoustic bass on an electric bass guitar, his melodic bass lines, and his expressive solos. - Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. Lesh started out as a trumpet player with a keen interest in avant-garde classical music and free jazz; he also studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio at Mills College (classmates included minimalist composer Steve Reich, … - Jim Black
Jim Black is a jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music. His own group, AlasNoAxis, includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Skúli Sverrisson on electric bass. The music is in some ways closer to post-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble texture rather than featured solos. - John Myung
John Ro Myung (born on January 24, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is a bassist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Dream Theater. - Pino Palladino
Pino Palladino (born on October 17 1957 in Cardiff, Wales, UK) is a noted rock and rhythm and blues electric bass player of Italian ancestry. - Wayne Krantz
Wayne Krantz (born July 26 1956 in Corvallis, Oregon) is an innovative American jazz fusion guitarist who has played with names such as Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and others, but currently has a solo act. He released his first album, "Signals," in 1991, sporting an array of recognized jazz musicians such as Dennis Chambers, Leni Stern, Anthony Jackson, and others. - Joe Osborn
Joe Osborn (born 1937) is an American electric bass virtuoso, notable for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles and Nashville during the period from the 1960s through the 1980s. Though little known to the public, Osborn's work is widely admired by fellow musicians. A native of Louisiana, Osborn began his career working in local clubs, then played on a hit record by the singer Dale Hawkins. He moved to Las Vegas at age 20, … - Monk Montgomery
Monk Montgomery (born October 10, 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana; died May 20, 1982 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was a jazz bassist. He is perhaps the first electric bassist of significance to jazz, but he also played acoustic. He is the older brother to guitarist Wes Montgomery with another brother Buddy playing vibraphone and piano. His professional career did not start until after his younger brother Wes, specifically when he was thirty. - Kermit Driscoll
Kermit Driscoll (born March 4, 1956 in Kearney, Nebraska) is a jazz bassist perhaps best known for his long association with guitarist Bill Frisell. At age 5, Driscoll began playing piano, and picked up the electric bass at 13. In 1974, he enrolled at the University of Miami, where he studied with Jaco Pastorius. In 1975, Driscoll went to the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated from in 1978. In January, 1980, he moved to New York City, … - Future Man
Royel (Roy) Wilfred Wooten (stage name Futureman, known as Futch to his fans, born October 13, 1957 in Hampton, Virginia) is an inventor, musician and composer. He is a percussionist and member of the jazz quartet Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. The other members are banjoist Béla Fleck, saxophonist Jeff Coffin, and bass guitar virtuoso Victor Wooten (Royel Wooten's brother). - Michel Hatzigeorgiou
Michel Hatzigeorgiou is a Belgian bassist. He was born in Belgium from Greek parents. He started playing bouzouki at the age of 9, then switched to electric guitar at 11 and finally to electric bass at 14. He joined his first band "The Blackbirds" when he was student at Charleroi Technical University. In 1982, he attended the jazz seminar in Liège. At that time, he played with Jaco Pastorius (his main influence), Mike Stern and Belgian jazzmen like Toots Thielemans, … - Jymie Merritt
Jymie Merritt (born 3 May, 1926) is an American hard bop double-bassist, and a father of a bassist, Mike Merritt, from Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received early training as a classical bassist (double bass), but he credits the following experiences, which took place in the 1940s, as proving more significant musically: (1) his early gigs in Philadelphia, PA with pianist Hassan Ibn Ali (duo) and (2) jam sessions, … - Yves Carbonne
Yves Carbonne is a jazz musician, known for his use of the extended-range bass (ERB), a type of electric bass with additional lower and higher strings. Carbonne's most well-known ERB is a custom 10-string, left handed, fretless Legend by Barcelonian luthier Jerzy Drozd. He has performed with many other bassists, including Jean Baudin and Stewart McKinsey. He also wrote music for and performed as a part of a "all bass"-trio on record with Michael Manring and Dominique Di Piazza. - Garry Tallent
Garry Tallent (born October 27, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan), sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the longtime bass player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Growing up around the Jersey shore, Tallent took up first the tuba and then the bass. He was influenced by James Jamerson, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Paul McCartney. - Doug Pinnick
Doug Pinnick (born September 3 1950 in Braidwood, Illinois) is the bassist and lead vocalist for the progressive metal band King's X. He is an African American, and claims he has other races in his blood. He mainly plays a 4-string electric bass, but has played a Hamer 12-string bass before, on King's X's earlier tours. He provides the lead vocals for the band, with the other members providing complicated vocal harmonies. - Ted Greene
Theodore ("Ted") Greene (September 26, 1946 - July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California. - Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood (born Colin Charles Greenwood, 26 June 1969, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), also known as Coz, is a member of English rock band Radiohead. He is best known as their bass player, although he does play other instruments (see below). He is the older brother of fellow band member, guitarist Jonny Greenwood. In December 1998, Greenwood married Molly McGrann, an American literary critic and novelist. They have two sons, Jesse, born in December 2003 and Asa, … - Mads Vinding
Mads Vinding is a Danish jazz double-bassist. He is an example of world-class Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen. He is the holder of an impressive list of engagements with a multitude of famous jazz masters. Mads Vinding has performed all over the world, produced several records, … - Roy Vogt
Roy Vogt is a professional electric bass and upright bass player who took up the instrument in Texas at 14, inspired by Jack Bruce, Jack Cassidy, Chris Hillman and Noel Redding. His first mentor, Dallas bassist Ed Garcia, turned him onto the playing of Ray Brown and Stanley Clarke and detoured the young bassist into jazz and fusion. Roy worked in a variety of Rock, Funk and Country bands in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area until he joined the Texas fusion band Aurora. - Jannick Top
Jannick Top is a French bass player and composer, born in Marseille. Top plays the electric bass and the violoncello. In the 1970s, he was a lead member of the influential prog-rock band Magma, along with Christian Vander and Didier Lockwood. Since then, he has worked with many other musicians, including session work for Michel Berger, France Gall, Richard Cocciante, Bonnie Tyler, Eurythmics, Ray Charles, … - Geoff Kresge
Geoff Kresge is a songwriter, guitarist, bassist, who played with AFI for most of their early career, from 1992 through 1997, and co-wrote the majority of their early material alongside frontman Davey Havok. During an AFI hiatus in 1993, he briefly moved to New York. - Leroy Hodges
Electric bass player Leroy Hodges is one of the most underrated players in a genre' (Soul) full of groundbreaking musicians, which include fellow Memphis natives Duck Dunn and James Alexander. Pairing with either Booker T. & the MGs's drummer Al Jackson or usually one of Jackson's protégé’s Howard Grimes, Leroy and The Hodges Brothers were the backing musicians for Al Green, Ann Peebles, and several other Soul, Gospel, and Blues artists. - Gregory Bruce Campbell
Gregory Bruce Campbell is a 9-string electric bassist. He performs with groups "9 & Zen"," Kickstart Chubby", and the Valley Christian Fellowship worship team. He teaches bass in Montana. He has artist endorsement relationships with a number of bass equipment companies. He performs using looping technologies, which allow a performer to record a "riff" or musical phrase, and then perform over this recorded loop. - Thierry Amar
Thierry Amar is a Canadian musician. He is most notable for participating in Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as well as being co-founder of A Silver Mt. Zion with Efrim Menuck and Sophie Trudeau. Amar also participates with Black Ox Orkestar, a Yiddish folk band. Amar joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor around the time of its debut album, "f♯a♯∞". He, with Mauro Pezzente, plays the electric bass in the group. However, when playing with A Silver Mt. - Costas Andreou
Costas Andreou is a musician and composer from Athens, Greece. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. He has collaborated with musicians, directors, actors, dancers and visual artists. - Buck Trent
Charles Wilburn "Buck" Trent (born February 17, 1938) is an American country music instrumentalist. He invented the electric Banjo and also plays the 5-string Banjo, Dobro, Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Electric Bass and Guitar. Born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Buck started performing on WORD Radio at the age of 12. He travelled to California and Texas, … - Robin Sylvester
Robin Sylvester is a London-born musician who is best known for his ongoing work with Ratdog. Although primarily a bass player, he plays several instruments, including the guitar and has done extensive arranging. Sylvester began his music career as audio engineer. Working as an assistant at Abbey Road Studios when the Beatles recorded their so-named album, he was inspired by Paul McCartney to take up the bass guitar. - Ronald Dzerigian
Ronald Dzerigian (born 1976) is an American artist based in Pasadena, California. Dzerigian, a painter, was born to an Armenian family in Fresno, California and graduated in 2002 from California State University, Fresno. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in California and New York. He has been characterized as a neo-Dadaist, although there are Neo-romantic and mystical elements to his aesthetic orientation. - Fred Thelonious Baker
Fred Thelonious Baker (born June 4, 1960) is an English musician, born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, who plays electric bass and guitar. Baker is predominantly known among Canterbury scene music fans for his work with guitarist Phil Miller's band In Cahoots and his duo album with Miller, "Double Up" (1992); however, the bassist is also a respected musician on the British jazz and folk music scenes. - Joe Schermie
Joe Schermie (February 12, 1946 - March 25, 2002) was an American musician, best known as the bass player for the 1970's American rock-pop group Three Dog Night. - Elio
Stefano Belisari (July 30 1961), aka Elio, is the founder of the Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese. He performs as the lead vocalist, but he also plays the transverse flute, and sometimes the electric guitar and the electric bass. The band is active in Italy since 1980, and they perform regularly in concert. Although he is the singer, he graduated at the conservatory for the transverse flute, which he occasionally plays during his performances.
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