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Wham, Bam Thank You, Ma'am
I've got a grip of favorite bass players (Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Norwood Fischer, Charlie Haden, Bootsy Collins, Jaco Pastorius, Adam Clayton and Oscar Pettiford to name a few -- a cello's still a bass in my book, yo) but the biggest bad wolf in the whole pack has to be
Charles Mingus...in his prime Charlie cut a whole heap of phat tracks like "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," "Haitian Fight Song," (you might've heard it on the film Jerry Maguire) "E's Flat and Ah's Flat Too" and of course "Wham Bam, Thank You Ma'am" which he cut with
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (another jazz fave of mine but he sat in the reed section)...I highly recommend this cat to anyone looking for the real deal and to those who don't know his shite, start listening to LP's like Pithecanthropus Erectus, Mingus Dynasty or Oh Yeah which are all top notch recordings, cousin'...hell, before he died even Joni Mitchell had to give him his propers...
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