Jamiroquai-esque bands and bassists

[grindy]

^ I can't really connect with it musically, but yeah it looks technically brilliant.

It sounds better at 0.75 speed. Was it sped up?

I certainly hope not, that'd be cheating.

[grindy]

Forgot how cool this is.

[Saulaac]

^That's a groovy mashup, grindy. My alzheimers is setting in so I can't remember those guy's names but that's the bassist from Knower, and the keyboardist is Jack thingymabob.

Talking about bassists (as one does), this concert has some great basslines from Trevor Horn. I must admit I didn't know him but he was important enough to arrange a concert and to include Grace Jones in it.

3:34 to 3:40 Horn plays a really great riff which upon reflection is like from Bach or something.

[Guybrush]

Snarky Puppy is probably already mentioned both here and elsewhere, but I just find the riff starting at 16 seconds in here incredibly funky ❤️

[Saulaac]

Snarky Puppy is defo on my top 50 desert island discs, Guybrush. There's a case to be made that if they ever do a remake of Starsky and Hutch then that riff should feature in the opening credits 

Iirc, this tour was in Holland and I watched it around the time of covid part 1 (2020), and I remember being so transfixed by the Cory Henry solo on Lingus. Superb players. They all seem to have their own individual projects but then come together when Michael League has the next gig lined up. Some of their tunes are a tiny bit samey, but yeah they are clearly one of my favourites.

[grindy]

Looks like y'all don't enjoy the shreddy shit that much but damn, Mohini Dey is impressive af

[Guybrush]

It's impressive playing, but I don't think John Coltrane's sax benefits at all from being doubled with bass. It's cool, but I don't actually like the sound of it.

[grindy]

I like the way it works together but just bass would probably sound nicer

[Saulaac]

^ I don't know that album "The Art Of John Coltrane" well at all, but Mohini Dey certainly seems to be full on into it. I must admit my favourite part was around the one minute mark when she picked up the original bass part and seemed to play counter-point.

Next time I'm listening to a shredder I'll listen out for the slower parts to see what they're doing.  

I also liked this vid where she was pre-recording for Lewis Pragasam's "Man, Land, Struggle" (Asiabeat). It's slappy, gamey and spiritual.

[grindy]

This guy is awesome.

[Saulaac]

^Yeah, that's groovy, and Federico is very versatile. I've seen clips where he shreds amazingly fast.

One of my favourites is Abe Laboriel Sr., (who was the bassist for the CHiPs series in the late 70s).
Here he is in 2014 getting progressively more intense, particularly from 5:00 to 9:00 

And for anyone who wants to be reminded of that CHiPs bass part, it's here  :

[Saulaac]

Really liked the Jazz is Dead albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Is_Dead_(record_label) - which were produced in 2020-2023 by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest, particularly album 4 with guest Azymuth, and also album 17 with Lonnie Liston Smith. A lot of sounds which hark back to early Jamiroquai. "Ao Redor Do Samba" is brilliant as well as "Sumarè":

"Sumarè" - Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, & Adrian Younge

I couldn't help noticing the chattering guitar which immediately reminded me of Mansur Brown on the Yussef Kamaal "Lowrider" track. Awesome tune.

[Saulaac]

Regarding "Lingus" by Snarky Puppy which was filmed in NL a few years ago, I just learnt they played different versions of this track on different nights, but kept only one final version (the original version, not the alternate take) for their DVD. The keys solo was the main focus, and I'm amazed that Cory Henry not only pumped out one mind knackering solo, but that he pumped out another one a couple of nights later. I guess he is someone who has truly mastered improvisation. I give the alternate take bonus points for effort because I think it's very hard to improve on something which has already been done brilliantly.

I've posted both the original and alternate solos below. For anyone who likes noodling keys solos over a repeating theme, both solos start around 4:18. (To clarify, the bit up to 4:18 is the same; they just changed the keys solo).

Lingus (original version they kept)

Lingus (alternate take on 3rd night)