Everyone has their favourites. Please avoid posting more than three if you are going to do youtube videos please try and do them in one post please?
I am sure some will totally ignore this request
Style is unimportant - every style has something great and great bassists in that style.

I chose this one because being possibly one of the more senior members heading towards the 60 mark, not a lot impresses me any more.
This young lady has the jazz/fusion "X" factor.
She was 20 I believe when she did this and has been playing since she was 6 someone told me. I first saw this about 6 months ago.

I do not like the tune particularly but her skills and solo technique is well beyond her years and is exceptional. She's like an old soul in a young body.

 

This guys ability to play that bass and singing is just mind boggling.

 

Not to forget just about any other instrument he can manage to get his hands on and play really well in-between

 

Kinga Głyk

 

@Olymoon

Wow Oly she is really something special.
She has so much heart. Almost like Miles Davis on a bass the way she lets her lines speak.
Thanks for this.
I loved it.

 

Exactly what called my attention to her. Even when she is simply speaking, you can feel this... She is this kind of "with a big soul" musician.

 

She is really something, I watched a few others of hers. There is one there called "Difficult choices"... She's a really intuitive and sensitive musician.

 

As far as traditional music goes that is creative and funky but I cannot hear enough of the bassist.

 

Yes, what's the name of the bassist?

 

Henrik Linder from Dirty Loops. I wont comment, his playing speaks for itself:

Live at Namm 2015

 

Not so new, but she is young: Esperanza Spalding

 

Mohini Dey

 

Esperanza is a a new force in music in general.
She almost created a record in the Grammy Awards by a Jazz artist, in beating a pop artist for best new talent.
Bieber pretty much faded into obscurity almost after that.

Her 5/4 version of "Body and Soul" is ingenious. It's nothing technically over the top, but her rhythmical phrasing and concept in rearrangement is wonderfully creative.

 

She playing the bass like a guitar. Really nice.

 

Got Bass Chops?

 

Mohini Dey from Mumbai India.The same girl featured at the beginning of this thread by Bassdude

 

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Great to see some Federico Malaman he's a monster too. Thanks mrpsanter

Here's another you all might like - Michael Manring
He is super creative and tries to combine nearly anything he can get his hands on. I put this on another thread somewhere. It's more appropriate here.
This really caught my attention because he has made the fretless not sound like every fretless people have come to expect since Jaco Pastorius. (Jaco is a legend and like Hendrix will contiinue to influence generations to come).

Manrings bass is set up really uniquely.
He has Hipshot tuners, the newer model where he has setup two different tuning drops on each string.
Check out some of his stuff on youtube. He is really different and definitely a virtuoso.

 

How can such disrespectful, dreadful people dare to babble while he's playing THAT?

 

Last edited: Apr 15, 2018