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The following is a list of notable electric bass guitar players. The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.
James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) [1] [a] was an American bassist.He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971), and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bass players in modern music history.
Ron Carter, 2008. He is the most-recorded bassist in jazz history, with appearances on over 2,200 albums. [1]This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players.
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler performing with Deadland Ritual in 2019 Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) was an influential American jazz bassist, composer and big band leader. He is best known for his work with Weather Report from 1976 to 1981, as well as work with artists including Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, and his own solo projects.
According to Brittanica, Messi has been named the world’s best men’s player of the year seven times (2009–12, 2015, 2019, and 2021) because of his left-footed, quick, and precise ball control .
Entwistle continues to top 'best ever bass player' polls in musicians magazines. In 2000, Guitar magazine named him "Bassist of the Millennium" in a readers' poll. [59] J. D. Considine ranked Entwistle No. 9 on his list of "Top 50 Bass Players". [60] He was named the second best rock bassist on Creem Magazine's 1974 Reader Poll Results. [61]
Historical double bassists such as Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846) and Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) established a tradition for playing the instrument that was carried on in the 20th and 21st century with a number of double bass players. Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their ...
Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. [1] Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,000 albums, [2] and is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of recorded music. [3] [4]