Jameson vs. Kaye-who was the hottest session bassist?
jazzfascist:
Quote from: PMcC on January 08, 2006, 02:17:18 AM
Find out who made the most money during their sessions, and you will find the 'hottest' session bassist....
If you measure it that way it's probably Kaye.
But with regards to her sound she may have helped to save money for some producers, but she doesn't seem to be as creative a player as Jamerson.
Søren
Joshilyn Hoisington:
I don't think it's fair to measure creativity by using what people played as hired session musicians. I mean, what's our criteria? 16th notes? Chromaticism? Phrasing? If people are intent on choosing a winner, let's have some solid, hard core criteria. Otherwise it's just taste.
jazzfascist:
Quote from: aeijtzsche on January 08, 2006, 06:23:43 AM
I don't think it's fair to measure creativity by using what people played as hired session musicians. I mean, what's our criteria? 16th notes? Chromaticism? Phrasing? If people are intent on choosing a winner, let's have some solid, hard core criteria. Otherwise it's just taste.
It seems from some of your answers, that Carol Kaye's creativity lay in her ability to help get a good sound in the studio, whereas with Jamerson he seemed to be more musically creative, in that he together with Benny Benjamin created a lot of the rhytmtracks for Motown and in the process also created a whole new style of bassplaying. I guess it depends on what qualities you think are the most important for a studio-bassplayer.
Søren
cta:
Man, why do people get offended if someone says that Kaye or Jameson plays like whoever or how she plays it? Good god. We all hear slight differences in music. Yes, Kaye, in some instances plays like a music teacher. Not always, but in some - but hey, that's what my ears hear. For all I know, my ears just might suck. The wife says I can't hear jack schitt anyway...but that's in her mind. :P
I hear Kaye's playing very alive in Surf's Up for the first movement. It is a truly copied sound from many bassists in the studio field of that time. I really like that sound. HOWEVER, it was up to a producer like Spector or Wilson to craft the tone of it and direct her how to play it.
She's not like Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Mike Watt or Les Claypool where they have their own sounds and make things up on the fly.
audiodrome:
I love Carol Kaye's bass sound on the "Hogan's Heroes" theme :)
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