hi it's Geoff Chalmers here from discoverdoublebass.com we provide
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video i'm joined by one of our expert jazz bass tutors and he's also somebody who's a renowned
international bass player educator and author let's welcome John Goldsby john fantastic to have
you with us today yeah thanks for the invitation well i wanted to talk to you about jazz bass
because we've been filming a series of lessons this week really looking at soloing and walking
on the double bass and we played quite a lot of standards so perhaps you could give us your top
three standards that every jazz bassist should know okay if i had to pick only three standards
maybe if you're just starting out playing jazz bass and you want to
find some standards that everyone plays and that you can play jam sessions or whatever
i would say all the things you are autumn leaves body and soul oh there's some three good ones
there yeah that's that's uh half a set of uh great jazz right there so uh all the things you are
yeah all the things you are body and
soul
beautiful ballad autumn leaves
yeah great tunes so those would be the three that i would recommend if you don't know those
standards find the recordings get a lead sheet you can check out a couple of those tunes uh all the
things you are in autumn leaves in our bass course absolutely yeah and uh yeah those would be great
to learn do you have any favorite recordings of these i'm just thinking in terms of recordings
of these standards that I've really enjoyed over the years there's uh on Wynter Marsalis standard
time album there is a really up tempo version of autumn leaves it's incredible and Ron Carter's
arrangement of uh autumn leaves on golden striker is one that jumps out for me those are two great
versions uh yeah i'd say the uh Cannonball Adderley Miles Davis version with Sam Jones
the album something else something else that's a great version of to play the introduction because
it's such a cool intro first right they play uh they start off with this real mysterious vibe
yeah it's a minor sixth kind of minor six then it's sort of it's swinging but they they have
kind of a straight eighth note um Sam Jones is almost playing straight eighth notes on that line
that is one heck of a recording is an album isn't it how about body and soul and uh and all
the things you are I'm trying to think of any particular well body and soul i would say the
Jimmy Blanton version the duet with Duke Ellington for me that's a standout version uh Jimmy Blanton
plays body and soul the melody with the bow and then in the middle he solos pizzicato uh it's
yeah it's just a an incredible version uh the the uh all the things you are uh with Charles Mingus
from uh the Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie town hall or the Massey hall concert yeah
yeah well that's going to give people enough to go on so thank you so much for sharing that with us
today and please let us know what your essential jazz standards are uh by commenting below this
video we'd love to keep the conversation going keep practicing hard and we'll see you next time