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Live Bass

t’s in live settings that we hear this music really unfold, develop, and cook. I love those risks that happen in live and improvised music, and the way the audience feels the energy and the rewards of those risks makes it hard to recapture in the studio. The bass is no exception, even though a lot of what the instrument does is the underlying stuff that maybe not everybody notices. This list of recordings highlights that stuff and includes a range

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