Episode 137 | Leo Lyons Reflects on Ten Years After, Woodstock, and 60 Years of Bass

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Episode 137 | Leo Lyons Reflects on Ten Years After, Woodstock, and 60 Years of Bass

In this conversation, Leo takes us back to a time when electric basses were rare, when you might lose your chance to buy one simply because there was only a single instrument in the shop, and when learning meant hearing a song once on the radio and figuring it out by instinct. He talks about moving from guitar to bass almost by accident, chasing the tone of upright players like Bill Black, and discovering his voice by pushing the amplifier as much as the instrument itself.

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Eric Revis doesn’t just play the bass… he interrogates it. Born in California and now one of the most respected voices in modern jazz, Eric’s journey into the instrument began like many others... through curiosity, records, and a gravitational pull toward the low end, but quickly evolved into something far more intentional. This conversation was recorded during the Montreal International Jazz Festival, where Eric was in town performing with Branford Marsalis… a fitting backdrop for a discussion rooted in tradition, evolution, and what it really means to play this music at the highest level.

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Riccardo Oliva - Groove Podcast

Riccardo Oliva is one of those modern bass players who feels less like a specialist and more like a musical system… a player, composer, producer and thinker whose instincts move freely between groove, harmony, texture and technology. Born in Palermo and now based in Milan, Riccardo’s path to the bass began unusually wide… first as a drummer, then through piano, and eventually to electric bass as the instrument that best translated what he was already hearing (but he was very young when this happened). Rooted in jazz-fusion but fluent in electronic music, rock and contemporary composition, his playing reflects a generation raised on both Weather Report and YouTube… equal parts lineage and restless curiosity. Many listeners first encountered Riccardo through his work with the ever-hot and exciting guitarist, Matteo Mancuso, where his six-string bass doesn’t just support the music, it actively converses with it… shaping harmony, filling space and making this wild trio sound far larger than it should. This conversation was recorded this past summer during the Montreal International Jazz Festival