John Patitucci’s Soulful Bass
In the late 1970s, John Patitucci heard Dave Holland’s Emerald Tears, one of the rare solo bass albums and an influential record for bassists of Patitucci’s generation. “His playing inspired me, but it was a little intimidating,” Patitucci says. So much so that it took him 40 years to make a solo album of his own.
His new record, (Three Faces), is a compendium of mostly original compositions performed, with great sensitivity and spaciousness, on six-string electric and acoustic upright.
