Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Home
Latest CD
References
Contact Info
Steve Brown (c. 1890-1965) member in New Orleans Rhythm Kings in the early 1920's played in Jean Goldkette Orchestra Al Morgan (1908-1974) recorded with Fats Waller in 1929 played in Cab Calloway's Orchestra in the early 30's
played with Duke Ellington revolutionized the bass playing Charles Mingus (1922-1979) bass player and pianist composer, who allowed plenty of room to musicians own ideas
Milt Hinton
Oscar Pettiford (1922-1960) played with Duke Ellington first major jazz soloist in cello Ray Brown (1926-2002) played with Dizzy Gillespie member in Oscar Peterson Trio
Blues players
In blues music it is possible to find some amazing slap bass. There are interesting solos as well as good primitive sounds. Ernst "Big" Crawford played with Muddy Waters interesting slap bass for instance in a song: I Can't Be Satisfied
Willie Dixon (1915-1992) bassist, singer, songwriter, producer member in Big Three Trio, with which he plays interesting slap bass solos interesting slap bass for instance in songs: Big 3 Stomp, Hard Notch Boogie Beat, 88 Boogie, Big 3 Boogie
Willie Dixon
Revolution of Rock'n'Roll
In the mid 1950's slap style had an important role in the development of rock'n'roll music. In many cases it was slap bass that gave the rock'n'roll music a primitive beat and a strong rhythm. Marshall Lytle played in Bill Haley and the Comets Bill Haley and the Comets had a very distinctive slap bass sound. Bill Black played with Elvis Presley Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley and Bill Elvis Presley started his career Black - The Blue Moon Boys without drums, in his early recordings it was slap bass that provides the strong primitive beat.
More Information
Article on early slap bass players: Slap That Bass - New Orleans String Bass Pioneers www.geocities.com/infrogmation/NewBass.html www.rockabillybass.com www.gollihur.com/kkbass/basslink.html The Red Hot Jazz Archive - History of jazz before 1930 www.redhotjazz.com www.allmusic.com An article in Bassplayer magazine about Marshall Lytle http://archive.bassplayer.com/z2001/0109/lytl e.shtml
Updated 2005-03-11
Slap Media