Slap Happy: All your bass are belong to Philly & Detroit

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Slap Happy: All your bass are belong to Philly & Detroit

POSTED: Monday, August 25, 2008, 1:30 PM

Filed Under: Music jazz

Excellent piece in the Detroit Free Press about the Detroit/Philadelphia bassist axis in advance of the Detroit International Jazz Festival where Philly bass man Christian McBride is artist-in-residence.

“It’s not an accident that almost all of my favorite bass players are from Detroit or Philadelphia,” says Christian McBride, the Philadelphia-born bassist who serves as artist-in-residence at the 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, which begins Friday and runs through Labor Day. “You take away Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Percy Heath, Jimmy Garrison, James Jamerson, Alphonso Johnson and the others and you’re left with a very short list.”

The article breaks down, with bonus streamig music, each city's heavy hitters. Philly's got an impressive bass resume — Heath, Garrison, Johnson, Stanley Clarke — but I've got to ask, where's Hub?

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