Jazz Bassist Marco Panascia

Here is a great video of jazz bassist Marco Panascia soloing over rhythm changes. Notice how Marco uses a positional approach to his soloing. He tends to cross stings and do pivots to stay in a position for a length of time rather than shifting up and down the string. This is a big conceptual difference between classical and jazz bass playing.

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2 Comments

Justin Cormia on December 22, 2006 at 5:20 am

incredible… im going to transcribe that and audition for jazz next semester… riiiiiiiiiiiight…
Jason Heath on December 23, 2006 at 6:07 am

Doesn’t he have great facility on the bass? He has a bunch of great videos on YouTube, and I’ll try to post some more of them.

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