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jazz bass

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 09:31:41 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Jazz bass refers to the distinctive playing style and tonal approach of bass guitarists and double bassists within jazz music, characterized by walking bass lines, improvised solos, and complex harmonic movement. The sound emphasizes melodic freedom, syncopated rhythms, and virtuosic technique that transforms the bass from a purely supportive role into a lead voice. This tag encompasses both acoustic and electric bass performances that demonstrate the sophisticated, conversational interplay central to jazz ensemble work.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
15		1957	Ray Brown	Two Bass Hits	double bass jazz jazz bass jazz double bass jazz piano	double bass # 50
50		1972	Eddie Harris	Live At Newport	jazz jazz bass swing
82		1974	Jeremy Steig	Look into the Flower	flute jazz jazz bass swing	flute # 39
21		1975	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Ambiance	jazz jazz bass
95		1975	Arild Andersen	If You Look Far Enough	jazz bass
22		1976	Stanley Clarke	School Days	jazz fusion bass jazz	jazz fusion # 64 bass # 89
83		1976	Barre Phillips	Mountainscapes	jazz bass
73		1978	Johnny Dyani	Witchdoctor's Son	jazz jazz bass jazz guitar jazz piano post-bop swing
78		1978	Etron Fou Leloublan	Les Trois Fou's Perdégagnent - Au Pays des...	bass french jazz jazz bass jazz rock post-bop
62		1979	Joe Pass & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Chops	jazz jazz bass jazz guitar usa
72		1979	Ron Carter	Parade	jazz jazz bass
84		1979	Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus With Orchestra	jazz jazz bass
67		1979-01	Gary Peacock	December Poems	bass jazz jazz bass
98		1981	Dexter Gordon	Gotham City	jazz jazz bass jazz guitar jazz piano swing
93		1985	Eberhard Weber	Chorus	bass jazz bass
4		1986	Akira Jimbo	Get Up	australian instrumental jazz bass
69		1987	Charlie Haden	Dream Keeper	jazz bass jazz double bass	jazz double bass # 22
90		1987	Matia Bazar	Gold	jazz bass
88		1988	Miroslav Vitous	Guardian Angels	jazz bass
77		1988-06	Carla Bley	Duets	jazz bass jazz piano
44		1989	Brian Bromberg	Magic Rain	jazz jazz bass jazz fusion
55		1989	Kenny Drew	Duo 2	jazz bass
26		1990-01-01	Chris Minh Doky	The Sequel	jazz jazz bass
96		1990-10-23	Dave Holland Quartet	Extensions	jazz bass
17		1991	Chris Minh Doky	Letters	jazz jazz bass
41		1992	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Uncharted Land	jazz jazz bass
48		1993	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Trio 1	jazz bass jazz trio	jazz trio # 34
28		1993	Yosuke Yamashita	Dazzling Days	harmolodic jazz jazz bass jazz piano new thing post-bop
43		1993	Kazutoki Umezu	Eclecticism	bass japanese jazz jazz bass jazz rock post-bop progressive rock swing
46		1993	Philip Catherine	Art Of The Duo	jazz jazz bass jazz guitar
61		1994	Steve Coleman	Harvesting Semblances and Affinities	jazz jazz bass post-bop vocal jazz
71		1994-08-16	Tribal Tech	Primal Tracks	funk fusion jazz instrumental jazz bass jazz fusion	fusion jazz # 78
23		1994-11-26	Charnett Moffett	Planet Home	jazz jazz bass jazz double bass
16		1995	Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble	Just Before the Dawn	flute folk horn jazz jazz bass meditation	horn # 41
31		1995	Stan Getz	Bar Lounge Classics 2	jazz jazz bass jazz piano latin swing
24		1995-03-27	Marcus Miller	Tales	bass jazz funk	bass # 83
66		1995-08	Doky Brothers	Doky Brothers	jazz bass
79		1996	Dave Douglas	Five	bass electronic funk fusion jazz jazz bass post-bop
18		1997	Marcus Miller	Live & More	bass funk jazz	bass # 74
92		1997	Jaco Pastorius	Jaco Pastorius	jazz bass fusion	jazz # 32 fusion # 94 bass # 98
13		1997	Ray Brown, John Clayton, Christian McBride	SuperBass (Recorded Live At Scullers)
38		1998	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	The Eternal Traveller	jazz jazz bass
64		1998	Dave Holland Quintet	Points of View	jazz
80		1998	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	This Is All I Ask	jazz jazz bass
54		1998-05-03	Chris Minh Doky	Minh	bass jazz jazz bass
20		1999	Victor Wooten	Yin Yang (disc 1: Yin)	jazz bass
29		1999	Victor Wooten	Yin Yang (disc 2: Yang)	fusion jazz bass
56		1999	Dave Holland	Prime Directive	jazz
70		1999	Cloroform	Do The Crawl	bass electronic jazz bass pop rock
86		2000	Christian McBride	Sci-Fi	bass	bass # 17
27		2000	Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips	Sankt Gerold Variations
97		2000-11-07	Tribal Tech	Rocket Science	funk fusion jazz instrumental jazz bass jazz fusion	fusion jazz # 92
36		2001	Ray Brown, John Clayton, Christian McBride	SuperBass 2
60		2001-03-23	Marcus Miller	M2	jazz bass funk	bass # 15
63		2002	Brian Bromberg	Jaco	bass	bass # 21
68		2002	Happy Apple	Youth Oriented	jazz
91		2002	Jaco Pastorius	Another side of Jaco Pastorius	jazz bass
30		2003	Piotr Lemanczyk	Follow the Soul	jazz jazz bass jazz double bass polish jazz	jazz double bass # 92
32		2003	Juhani Aaltonen Trio	Mother Tongue	jazz jazz bass jazz saxophone	jazz saxophone # 6
42		2003	Marcin Oleś	Ornette on Bass	jazz jazz bass jazz double bass polish jazz	polish jazz # 27 jazz double bass # 70
40		2003	Zbigniew Namyslowski	Standards	jazz jazz bass jazz piano swing
85		2003-04-22	Jaco Pastorius	Punk Jazz The Jaco Pastorius Anthology (disc2)	fusion jazz jazz bass jazz fusion
87		2003-09-29	Miroslav Vitous	Universal Syncopations	jazz bass
47		2003-11-13	Tlahoun Gèssèssè	Ethiopiques 17: Tlahoun Gèssèssè	african bass jazz bass jazz guitar orchestra
53		2005	Travis Shook	Awake	jazz jazz bass jazz piano
59		2005	Mark Dresser	Unveil	bass jazz bass
19		2005	Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham	Heroes
75		2005-02-22	Avishai Cohen	At Home	jazz contemporary jazz	contemporary jazz # 65
99		2005-03-15	The Bad Plus	Blunt Object Live In Tokyo	fusion instrumental jazz jazz bass jazz piano meditation piano post-bop	post-bop # 63
49		2005-09-20	The Bad Plus	Suspicious Activity?	jazz	jazz trio # 36
65		2006	Dave Burrell	Momentum	jazz jazz bass jazz piano post-bop
74		2006-03-24	Brian Bromberg	Downright Upright	jazz smooth jazz	double bass # 85
94		2006-04-17	DAAU	Domestic Wildlife	accordion bass folk jazz jazz bass jazz fusion klezmer meditation progressive rock rock	klezmer # 53 accordion # 88
52		2006-05-23	Avishai Cohen	Continuo	jazz	contemporary jazz # 30
57		2007	Charlie Haden	American Dreams (feat. Michael Brecker)	jazz	jazz double bass # 71
89		2008-03-04	Marcus Miller	Marcus	jazz jazz-funk	jazz-funk # 63
76		2008-09-23	Dave Holland Sextet	Pass It On	jazz bass
81		2008-09-26	Viktoria Tolstoy	My Russian Soul	bass jazz jazz bass jazz piano orchestra piano pop russian swedish traditional vocal jazz	orchestra # 48 traditional # 49
45		2009	Charnett Moffett	The Art Of Improvisation	jazz jazz bass jazz double bass	jazz double bass # 63
25		2009	Juhani Aaltonen Quartet	Conclusions	jazz bass jazz saxophone
33		2009	Mimi Jones	A New Day	jazz bass usa vocal jazz
58		2009-09-17	Nicki Parrott	Fly Me To The Moon	jazz jazz bass
100		2010-05-30	Paul Chambers	Yeah, Techno!
39		2010-10-08	Charnett Moffett	Treasure	jazz jazz bass jazz double bass post-bop	jazz double bass # 78
7		2011-04	Oprachina	OPRA CHINA	avant-garde jazz bass contemporary jazz double bass european jazz instrumental jazz chillout jazz saxophone modern jazz	chamber jazz # 39 jazz saxophone # 47 double bass # 88 european jazz # 95
10		2011-11-21	Imagination Quartet	IQ	contemporary jazz jazz bass polish jazz
11		2012	Maciej Garbowski	Elements	jazz jazz bass jazz trumpet polish jazz
8		2015	Imagination Quartet	Imagination Quartet	fusion instrumental jazz jazz bass jazz fusion jazz guitar polish jazz
12		2020-02-20	Maria Kannegaard	Maryland	bass jazz jazz bass jazz piano meditation post-bop
1			Ursull Manchill	K U B E E	modern jazz nu jazz bass fusion jazz jazz fusion norway
2			Maciek Grzywacz	Fourth Dimension	jazz bass jazz guitar polish jazz
3			Danny Zamir	I Believe	jazz jazz bass jazz piano klezmer swing
5			Maciek Grzywacz	Forces Within	jazz bass jazz guitar polish jazz
6			Fetish Panda	Konnichiwa/demo	avant-garde jazz bass drum italian jazz bass jazz fusion jazz rock nu jazz trombone
9			Cedric Saniak	From an Amator to his Masters	jazz bass
14			Bill Bruford with Ralph Towner & Eddie Gomez	If Summer Had It's Ghosts	jazz jazz bass jazz piano
34			Anthony Jackson	Trio in Tokyo	jazz bass
35			Gürol Ağırbaş	Köprüler - Iki Dünya	jazz
37			Nepredvidive Dede	B Bluza	electronic jazz jazz bass krautrock lo-fi meditation rock swing
51			Francesco Piras	francesco piras quintet - waiting for peace	fusion jazz jazz bass jazz guitar jazz piano swing

Related genres

• jazz
• jazz piano
• bass
• post-bop
• swing
• jazz guitar
• jazz double bass
• polish jazz
• jazz fusion
• fusion