Bass is so critical, when I get called for a gig usually the first thing I ask is "who's on bass?". When it comes to the RT's I can nit pick with the best of them but I also understand just how tough it is to simply plug in prerecorded phrases in many different tunes. Even though a lot of us think of standards as being all the same they're most certainly not. When you listen to the original recordings of classic standard medium swing tunes you hear all kinds of different things happening in the rhythm section. The basses are not all simple, some are, some arn't but I agree a simple bass can really help the band keep things together and also help a soloist know where they are in the bar. It's difficult to put in some off time figures in a solo and not hear the bass laying down a solid on the beat line. If he's messing around a bit at the same time the soloist is, the soloist better have a real good metronome in his head. I will hear a group of pure monster players where nobody including the drumer is laying down any kind of solid to the beat rhythm yet they all know where they are. I found a youtube video of some all star big band in Japan doing Tunisia. Dave Weckl was on drums and he's not one to listen to if you need the drummer to tell you where 1 is! I've had that tune memorized for 20 years and play it regularly yet when these cats were taking their solo's I got lost just listening to it. I even replayed the piano solo (Gonzalvo Rubalcaba) like 10 times trying to follow it and still couldn't and I know that tune very well. Amazing.
Anyway, back to the point I mostly like the jazz bass RT's considering the limitations of trying to use the same prerecorded RT in different tunes.

Bob

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