Bass Player LIVE! 2014 Clinics: Latin Bass Roundtable

November 8th, 2014
Oskar Cartaya
The Puerto Rican-born, Bronx-seasoned bassist, producer, composer has toured and recorded with everyone from Spyro Gyra and Herb Alpert to J-Lo and Willie Colón, Since moving to L.A., he has added film scoring to his career file.
Abraham Laboriel
One of the most recorded and revered studio musicians in pop music history, Bass Player LIVE! Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Abraham Laboriel is also an innovator who has brought new techniques and global grooves to the bass lexicon via the thousands of albums he has played on. His wide-ranging credits run the gamut from Quincy Jones, George Benson, Miles Davis and Paul Simon to Michael Jackson, Madonna, Lionel Richie, Barbra Streisand and Dolly Parton.
Ruben Rodriguez
Rene Camacho
Carlos Del Puerto, Jr.
“Carlitos,” the son of Cuban bass legend Carlos Del Puerto, Sr. (Irakare) has been the hottest doubler on the planet, hopping from gigs with Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Chris Botti, Chick Corea, David Sanborn & Bob James and the Gipsy Kings. He can be heard on Billy Childs’ excellent new album, Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro.
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[@elchekaner]

Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico!!

[@juantellado9235]

No matter how you want to slice this when concerning clave, you must know where you are starting from or you will drive everybody else "mad". It's something that you have to take the time to learn. For someone in Cuba, Puerto Rico, or NYC, learning "clave" is felt from the mother's womb, but for others, even feeling the clave from birth, eventually, when working with a professional band it's required for most of the band members to learn how to read music, yet for a percussionist, it is required that everybody knows where you are while playing the music. This includes whether you start from a 2-3 clave or a 3-2 clave. As you can see, the clave is even spelled differently one from the other. This will make a big difference with the music. Don't go by the feel, go by the proper beat that the music demands! It doesn't take long to learn. Don't get embarrassed if you are wrong, correct yourself and continue practicing.

[@bassmentality]

We all brothers in music. I was 13 playing box bass in London and 57 years later I am proud to live in Spain and play Latin type Jazz mixed with every other genre. Music is our culture Paco = jajaja hermano en bajo, Alberto (ziggybass)

[@califorman]

Rubén Rodríguez es el sucesor de toda la escuela de Fania, él tiene la escuela de Salvador cuevas, de Sergio George, de Willie colon , de Rubén blades ,Héctor Lavoe etc, su mejor trabajo para mí son las grabaciones de dlg porque tiene un estilo muy personal donde combina salsa, ritmos cubanos, final, r&b ,hip Hop la vdd se me hace tan importante como Abe Laboriel solo que en un género más popular , aparte colaboró con groove Washington

[@d.towerz]

Great explanation on Latin Ritmo.

[@v33punk]

One of the clinics I missed that weekend. Thanx for posting!

[@rolandoradam4838]

Johnny Flores JB

[@TheVikingtropical]

Cuando se trata de "salsa" Ruben Rodriguez es sin lugar a dudas el más capacitado de todos esos bajistas. A mi modesto juicio.

[@soloporelmundo1176]

Sabes donde nació la salsa ?

[@TheVikingtropical]

Por supuesto. En Cuba.

[@TheMIKEARANGO]

FALTÓ SAL CUEVAS....MAESTRO DE MAESTROS!!!!

[@bryanperez4505]

Carlitos hablando la clara!

[@juaco42]

forgot introduce A Laboriel

[@elchekaner]

He doesn’t need it everyone know who he is.

[@miguelolavarria1793]

Los bajista de fania fueron bobby valentin, y el gran sal cuevas, no Ruben Rodriguez corijete brother.

[@MarcG7424]

I believe musicians play music not culture

[@chingonbass]

music is culture

[@MarcG7424]

Music comes from culture but culture isn't a prerequisite to play it

[@chingonbass]

@@MarcG7424 music is culture

[@MarcG7424]

@@chingonbass See previous comment

[@chingonbass]

@@MarcG7424 see my previous 2 comments. It's no different then language, language is culture.

[@69420joey]

39:46 music start That’s dude talks too much