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Victor joins Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
Side 2. Track 1. 'You Look Good to Me'
Ray Brown brought You Look Good to me into a recording session.
The trio did a run-through and produced the version on the record.
... pretty incredible.
Peterson has recorded Brown's tune several times since then.
Born 1951,
Norristown,
Pennsylvania
One year after Jaco's death he becomes the first electric bassist to enter the Jazz Hall of Fame
(and one of only 4 bassists total)
Ray Brown meets Ella Fitzgeral while touring with Dizzy in Southern USA
Married 1947
Divorsed 1952
Born 1926,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The high school jazz orchestra needed a bassist.
Ray filled the vacancy... and the rest is history!
Composer, bassist and drummer...
Jaco does it all!
Wooten's first solo album, 'A Show of Hands', reinvents the electric bass sound with melodic lines and funky technique.
Born 1964
Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Youngest of 5 brothers.
All members of the
Wooten Brothers Band.
Pettiford broke his arm. It was impossible to play his bass but he could play cello with his arm in a sling.
Tuned in fourths like a bass, Pettiford began his first cello recordings in 1050.
Boarn 1922,
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Ray first met
at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert.
Brown played with Oscar's trio
from 1951-1966.
Jaco started out on drums but after injuring his wrist playing football he took up the electric bass.
2 years later Jaco took over the bass in his band, Las Olas Brass.
Wooten is named 'Bass Player of the Year' from Bass Player Magazine for the third year in a row!
leading the jazz-rock/fusion
movement of the 1970s
Listen for the harmonics on the bass and how Jaco attacks each note.
He's playing chords too.