Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Horace Silver (piano), Teddy Smith (bass) and Roger Humphries (drums). From the album Song for My Father (1965).
Walking bass is a way of accompaniment with the double bass used in jazz, blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock, country, etc., in which the harmonic progression of the theme is established using non-syncopated black notes, which creates a sensation of movement like that produced when walking. It uses a combination of scales, chord and the arpeggio notes, and step notes to create the harmonic structure of the theme.
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It has the advantage that if you master it well, you can play many types of music, although to build bass lines in different styles, you have to study them first. A chord and an arpeggio contain the same notes. If we play them all at once, we make a chord, and if we play them one at a time, we make an arpeggio. The double bass and electric bass are usually played in arpeggiated form.
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This theme has an optimistic mood at medium-fast tempo. Henderson is the first one to perform his passionate solo by linking long phrases. Between soloist and soloist, the group plays a riff. Then Jones enters, giving personality to his solo and his ideas flow one after the other. Then Silver appears making an energetic solo. After that, Humphries arrives as if it were a whirlwind without leaving a single silence, and finally the group plays the re-exposure of the theme.
