“I'd never heard somebody play the bass like that”: How Don Blackman’s 1982 classic album inspired a young Marcus Miller By Chris Jisi published 25 September 23 The session ace-turned-solo artist recalls his earliest bass hero, and the swung-funk bassline on Don Blackman’s Heart’s Desire
“The phone rings and it's Jaco Pastorius. He says, 'I’m in room 265, come up here and get your lesson!'” Marcus Miller on an encounter with the self-proclaimed ‘greatest bass player in the world’ By Nick Wells published 24 May 23 Marcus Miller on what he learnt from Jaco Pastorius and why replacing him in Weather Report was “a beat down waiting to happen!”
The 10 best covers of Charles Mingus songs By Nick Wells published 20 January 23 From Keith Richards to Joni Mitchell, we chart the 10 best takes on ‘The Angry Man of Jazz’, Charles Mingus
Watch Will Lee and Richard Bona cover Liberty City by Jaco Pastorius in this exclusive clip from the Beneath The Bassline documentary By Nick Wells published 1 December 22 Video Jaco Pastorius would have been 71 this week. Watch our exclusive clip as Will Lee, Richard Bona, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, Robert Trujillo, Nik West and Laurence Cottle remember the genius of Jaco
Victor Wooten on his S.M.V supergroup with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller: “It was like Michael Jordan and LeBron James asking you to be on their basketball team!” By Nick Wells published 22 November 22 Bass guitar hero Victor Wooten looks back on his mind-blowing bass battles with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller
Watch Yves Carbonne play Teen Town on a custom 2-string bass By Nick Wells last updated 10 November 22 Yup: TWO-string. French sensation Yves Carbonne demonstrates the mastery of multi-string basses that's wowed the likes of Marcus Miller and Michael Manring
Marcus Miller: “I try to play from my ears and not from my fingers” By Bass Player Staff published 27 January 22 As Miller receives his Lifetime Achievement Award from Bass Player, he talks about the role of producer and explains why a formal musical education can help your career
The story behind Marcus Miller's 1977 Fender Jazz Bass By E.E. Bradman published 8 January 20 How the jazz great came across The One
Sire Marcus Miller V7 4- and 5-String Basses review By Jonathan Herrera published 8 January 20 As we gaze in our mind’s eye at an imagined Mount Rushmore of bass icons, it’s as easy to picture these basses as its faces.