Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I don't think the marketing department can use that one just yet.


:-) Saw what you did there. Yet surely after 27 years it's ready to use: "Nobody supports the whole spectrum of jazz the way we do.. McCoy Tyner Hancock Hersch etc'.

Seriously though Dzjang has a good point. Jazz rhythm sections have long since ceased to be mere timekeepers often phrasing with the front line and blurring the distinction between background and foreground.

Yet so much of that is however a result of tune-specific group interaction and the need for BIAB styles that are useable on many similar tunes often promotes a lowest common denominator approach.

Even so, multiple bass substyles that could be used in a modular fashion covering different rhythmic 'feels' and dynamic levels would go a long way to address the problem. Drums that imply and play around the beat instead of giving you the 'one' all the time would be good as well as a completely free 'rubato' style.

I suppose being a practice tool BIAB wants to appeal to all educational levels including the novice. Yet among the skills you need for jazz is your own personal,internal rhythm section and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected shifts or 'curveballs' as you guys call them. :-)


Alan