Chris Jisi

How to play Rocco Prestia’s classic Tower of Power bassline

Jerry Jemmott plucked his sunburst ’65 Jazz Bass in front of his Acoustic 360 rig

Five top low-enders with links to the bass great dissect the James Jamerson style

The German musician and artist was John Lennon's bass guitarist of choice for two decades

John Deacon’s bass playing on Killer Queen is guaranteed to blow your mind

Anthony Jackson’s use of a pick and phase shifter was famously first heard on the O’Jays’ 1973 hit

New York session bassist Wilbur Bascomb Jr. recorded on Jeff Beck’s 1976 version of this Charles Mingus ballad

Weather Report’s 1976 cut introduced the world to the full-tilt boogie of Jaco Pastorius

Vai hired the “flashy bassist with the long hair” after spotting him in a Joe Cocker video

The bass player for Prince, Ryan Adams and Jeff Beck on going it alone as a singer-songwriter

Bob Marley’s enduring hit is rife with reggae bass Barrett-isms: quarter-note triplets, resting on one, and unison riffs

Victor Wooten gives a track-by-track tour of his second solo album, What Did He Say?

Bass legend Lee Sklar used his “Frankenstein 4-string” on Lukather’s 2008 nod to Donald Fagen

Just a few weeks after seeing Weather Report at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, Norman Watt-Roy found himself in the studio with Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, Nathan East’s melodic 16-bar solo was played on a Yamaha BB3000 5-string

Johnson used a Music Man StingRay (which he helped design), and strung it with new D’Addario roundwounds 

After stints with Miles Davis, Madonna, and Sting, Darryl Jones found a home on The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge

From Tedeschi Trucks to Knower to Saturday Night Live, how Tim Lefebvre became the bass player everyone wants to work with

Nathan East recorded with his Yamaha Signature 5-string direct through a custom DI box

By 1971, James Jamerson’s demons had started to affect his consistency, so Bob Babbitt was called for this Motown classic

The story of Patrice Rushen’s Forget Me Nots, the song that became more famous as the theme from the Will Smith and Tommy Lee film Men in Black and was sampled by George Michael

Jack Bruce wrote with Pete Brown for Cream’s third album, 1968’s Wheels of Fire

While Nathan East played on the chart-topping Get Lucky, James Genus added a fresh spin to Daft Punk’s Grammy-winning album

The session ace-turned-solo artist recalls his earliest bass hero, and the swung-funk bassline on Don Blackman’s Heart’s Desire

A graduate of “Motown Funk University,” Babbitt said that he took from James Jamerson, but rightly so: “he was the original”