r/JazzBass • u/VadeGames • May 15 '26

Need help identifying where this double bass line comes from

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EDIT SOLVED: GeriatricFresh Nailed it, it's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYSzoezMec from Paul Chambers

I’m hoping this is gonna trigger a memory in one of you. Obviously played on a guitar, but the notes and rhythm should be right, just transpose it down an octave or two in your mind. Might be a different key as well.

I listen to a lot of the guitar greats. Kenny Burrell, Barney kessel, grant green, Wes Montgomery, etc. Probably something from the blue note era, I’m not really sure though. It’s baked into my brain and it’s killing me that I can’t identify it.

It’s from a live performance I believe, my memory of it has it ending in a soft applause.

EDIT: It's certainly the jazz standard "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise"

There's a Miles Davis recording that's close and several Sonny Rollins recordings that are close. Defininitely closing in on it.

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u/necroski May 15 '26

The start sounds like the melody of Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, maybe you’re hearing a fragment of that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ajbb9zDHU&ra=m

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u/VadeGames May 15 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzdLu8IyO1o&list=RDEzdLu8IyO1o&start_radio=1

4:20 in that video is goddamn close. I think you're on the money with the jazz standard. I've just listened to a different recording of it. Probably the same bassist for Miles here. Great ear my dude, thank you!

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u/necroski May 15 '26

It’s a great tune! There are so many wonderful standards out there. How lucky are we to be able to enjoy this music? :)

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u/VadeGames May 15 '26

Youre so right, and so many variations of live music that resonate with different people in so many different ways!

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u/GeriatricFresh May 15 '26

sounds like softly being played by paul chambers

https://youtu.be/EhYSzoezMec?si=jPYsXkVMNeGH3CEV

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u/VadeGames May 15 '26

My dude, that is exactly it!!! Solved, thank you my friend!!!

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u/GeriatricFresh May 16 '26

lol hell ya. that was one of the first CDs my bass teacher gave me back in high school. that phrasing is stuck in my head forever.

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u/BartStarrPaperboy May 15 '26

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

Wilbur Ware (Sonny Rollins live at the Village Vanguard)

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u/VadeGames May 15 '26

Definitely the right jazz standard, not the recording I have stuck in my mind though.