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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa
The bass player you want on your next session/gig should be doing both as a matter of course: providing harmonic structure to support the melody and a firm rhythmic pulse - without either of which all but the most rudimentary arrangements fall apart. FWIW the best jazz players understood the importance of their function back in the days when upright bass ruled the bandstands (and, other than in a small-club setting, was more felt than heard), and IME those who have truly mastered the concept tend to be jazzcats either by training or exposure...
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Jazz is outside my wheelhouse as I have no interest in it.
I worked as a bass player for almost 3 decades playing rock, folk, Old time, Cajun and Zydeco.
Unless I'm playing guitar, mandolin, or other instrument and it's absolutely necessary to have a different bass player I by far prefer my own playing.
