Eddie Gomez, the greatest bass player of all time soloes on "Waltz for Debby" with Chick Corea, Hubert Laws and Airto 2/2

[bassistdc]

Forget all that greatist player (media hype) crap and just enjoy the music.

[twangbarfly]

This is great - I thought only guitarists bitched about who is the best ever at this kind of abysmal level :-) Very amusing - keep it up, friends!

[rockguru14]

john entiwistle is the best rock bassist. eddie gomez is the best jazz bassist. along with mingus too

[tahurmusic]

yeah y´all bitches go to hell, eddie gomez is king. period.

[edthewave]

I think this video would have more views (and more likes) if the subtitle wasn't "the greatest bass player of all time".

[sri888]

fantastic thanks for posting... btw i love eddie on green dolphin in the bill evans tokyo concert great solo there also

[foodmunkey]

Y'all need to stop bitching, cuuuuh.

[intervalkid]

As for the best. We've got lot's of good ones. I mean Stanley Clark is aweful hard to get past. Jaco. Ron Carter.  I find it hard to believe that Entwistle is even seriously named.

[edhendersonmusic]

Amazing artists - too bad that so many at the gig were not listening (ordering coffee etc) stunning players, one can barley breathe when they play - so gorgeous

[Ouellette1978]

Eddie G is a great player for sure , same goes for Marc Johnson and the late Scott Lafaro, a legend!!!

[uprightbassmatt]

I'm upright bass player and I can tell that Gomez is great but there is a lot more double bass players who can be better and more accurate. That's my opinion but I like style of Gomez a lot ! He is original :)

[chavrik]

I think you're more of an uptight ass player

[uprightbassmatt]

I think you're pathetic and your answer is exactly that who you are. End of story. Sad... very sad. Grow up !!! and don't be rude any more.

[HammondB200]

@chavrik

Chavrik do you live in Afghanistan? Do you know what freedom of speech is?

[oregonbobv]

@uprightbassmatt

I recently saw chick corea with Eddie Gomez and Paul motian at the Blue note in NYC.. hands down, eddie Gomez is one of the best bass jazz bass players. Very earlt by Bill ewvans is a difficult piece and Gomez was right on the money. His timing is excellent and he can swing. Great show.!!!!!

[vova47]

@oregonbobv Eddie is real good without a doubt ,but to be fair, he probably has played "Very Early" more than any bass player alive,so he should know it by now.And actually any professional jazz musician should have good time and swing. It goes with the territory...

[BobHunter1977]

Hey nice!!! Was this from Seattle's Jazz Alley? I was at one of these shows and it was as close as one could get to seeing the "original" Return To Forever - Chick Corea and Airto, with stellar Hubert Laws standing in for the late Joe Farrell and of course the great Eddie Gomez on bass. I had a front row seat and it was just amazing. Thanks for posting this!

[commieobama]

John Entwistle was voted by other professional bass players as the, "BASSIST OF THE MILLENIUM"

[chavrik]

John Antwhistle is not good enough to kiss Eddie's endpin

[blah148]

@commieobama

if you put john entwhistle onstage with someone like chick corea he'd embaress himself beyond measure - just imagine him struggling to even hold the chord changes to stella by starlight or spain

he's good at faking a bass solo by hiding behind distortion and theatrics. if you want to compare apples to apples (electric bass) compare him to someone like marcus miller, jeff berlin, or john patitucci and you'll see how immature and incompetent entwhistle's 'ability' compares

[NZDaywalker]

mate, he's definatly really good, but christian mcbride, stanley clarke, just to name a few are nicer bass players than gomez,

[chavrik]

go to hell

[NZDaywalker]

dude hes good but hes not amazing ok. tell him to practise more

[KillswitchEngage42]

@NZDaywalker Wow... I guess Ray Brown, Scott LaFaro, and NHOP never existed.

[NZDaywalker]

@KillswitchEngage42 "just to name a few" you fuck

[KillswitchEngage42]

@NZDaywalker Haha Thank you for those kind words. Respect the more defined, historic, and vastly superior man :) I would never put McBride and Clarke above the names I mentioned, because they don't have individuality like Brown or Pedersen. I would say Clarke and McBride play faster, that's about it :) Again, all opinions.

[chavrik]

you primitve, ignorant fools.. i'm contacting youtube and your comments will soon be removed from this space filled with the great digital eddie gomez

[ShangoDC]

I'm not sure if he's the greatest, but he is certainly at the very top of the upright players.

[jazzcombo251]

he is not the greatest bass player of all time.

[bungalowbeaker]

Eww...

[chavrik]

this was about a year ago at yoshis in sf

[ProfMishka]

Igor, where was this concert???

I'm very jealous you got to see it!

How's break going?

-Bryan