It's wild to be included on this list. Thanks Scott (and everyone else listed here for the inspiration!)

WOW! Thank you so much Scott!!! ;-) I'm very proud & happy to be part of it! :-)

Kind of his own genre on bass, but still worthy on this list, imo: Tom "Squarepusher" Jenkinson. Would love more content on that alien of a musician.

Finally got to see some MONONEON on SBL! Those 254 times MONONEON WENT BEAST MODE, would be sweet!

As soon as I saw Thundercat, I knew this vid was gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

We don’t care give us 20 more minutes. Give us more bass players. Such fantastic work introducing us all these great players. My daughter and I, who is a bass player too, love this. Thanks!

Thank goodness.... Mono made the list, that guys phrasing and ear is just freakishly good!!!

Every player on this list is incredible. A lot of people love to live in the past but this list shows how amazing the best bass players are these days.

Amazing! A lot of monstrous bassists and that's so good to see that the Brazil is well represented in this list! I miss Ricardinho Paraiso but this list still really great!

I am in awe of Evan Mariens left little finger :)

Mono Neon is something else! Its intrested to see, in this compilation, that sound and playing style and harmonic style of the most solos are very similar. With closed eyes, its hard to hear some differences...

love Evan Marion. His compositions are stunning too

Great list, though leaving Mohini Dey out is a straight up crime! :)

Lovin' Dane Alderson's time and tone! Can't believe you missed Christian Gálvez!!

Brazil!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thiago, Braguinha e Pipoca! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you!

I really can't tell yall how many times I have rewatched Scott doing the riff at the beginning of the video. What a legend.

Brasil fortíssimo na parada! Celeiro de baixista bom! 👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Janek's my favourite from this list. Lyrical was the right word to describe him. The 2 bassists I would add both belong to Paco de Lucia's bands: Carles Benavent for the previous video (born in '54), and Alain Perez (born in '77).

that tal wilkenfeld clip is so special. she didnt rely on playing arpeggios and scales at lightning speed. she way not be a jazz soloist, but that melody is so amazing

Was pleasantly surprised seeing Anton and Federico on the list, they are among my all time favorites, blazing solos!

The most monstrous instrumentalist come from jazz fusion my God

Just amazing. Such great musicians. Thanks Scottie for this video.

7:13 for Thundercat!

Hiromi in her mountain woman phase. (I'd forgotten about that.) I thought I knew what was going on, but you have me beat with bass players. These guys are good! But I sure was surprised Mohini Dey wasn't in there.

Some other bass players to maybe add to your next video list would be Mohini Dey, Nate Navarro & Kinga Glyk.

Great video, thanks so much for introducing us to these amazing players! Mindblowing!

I'd say main missing ones in the new gen are Romain Labaye, Charles Berthoud, Mohini Dey

Great selection... I'm in awe for Evan and Michael pipo

This video of Federico and Anthon is completly NUTS. I watch it time for time and it never made me other reaction than giggling and enjoying ending 😁

So good. Thanks Scott and Team SBL for another amazing video.

That was awesome Scott! Your an incredible musician and a great inspiration to us all!

Personal fave in this category at the moment would have to be the fabulous Kinga Glyk- wonderfully melodic jazz/fusion bassist. Born in 1997 as it happens since that seems to be important ;)

Daniele is great musician but also a very helpful and kind person....

Incredible! I would have to add Jonas Hellborg to this list but all of these cats are so creative in their approach to the instrument. Definitely can't wait to check out more of the players I'm hearing for the first time, like Anton Davidyants. Lots of new players to check out named in the comments as well!

“You probably wouldn’t think of Tal Wilkenfeld as a jazz soloist…”. ??? Her first (and for a long time afterwards, only) album was entirely an instrumental jazz album, with a scorching jazz bass solo on nearly every track.

Missing just two : Anthony Crawford (played with Allan Holdsworth & Virgil Donatti) & Snow Owl (currently playing with Hans Zimmer).

Looking and listening to these guys play is humbling.. One thing I believe is that if you are rolling around an instrument with more than 5 strings. you are a a unique combination of bass and guitarist and a well rounded musician with lots of mileage. A good musician is always learning.

Kinga Głyk - The first name that came to my mind.

Please do "another" top 20...this was soo good!

Esperanza Spalding and Kinga Glyk - BIG MISSES ( Especially Kinga - she is a monster ) Also - forget the name - but that one guy was a classical guitarist playing a bass - let's be real And I was curious if this Mono Neon literally learned to play up side down and backwards - because it looked like he was playing a right hand style bass - and stringed normally. Which is incredible - because the E string would be the physically ( not sonically ) LOWEST string. and A D G going upwards. ( Upside down and Backwards )

I'll admit it, I thought, for a split second, something was wrong with Henrik's video resolution, until I realized he had the true temper frets 😂 so many great players...

Thanks Scott! Great vid. 👍 And i hadn't even heard of most of these bassists... However... (gotta ask) How about Esperanza Spalding? How about Kinga Glyk? And, for what it's worth, i for one am not afraid of 40min videos. As long as it doesn't get boring. 😉

I just missed one in this list: Scott Devine. That one from UK

Feliz demais de ver muitos nomes brazucas nessa lista! So happy to see a lot of brazilian names on this list!

Kind of surprised to see Henrik Linder here. Not thathe can't do jazz. I just always imagine him primarily in the Dirty Loops sort of genre.

‘The new breed’ - indeedy! Some amazing players taking us into the future generations of bass playing. Thanks a million, Scott!🙏🇬🇧👍🙏

Jazz Bass Player: *Plays* Scott Devine: Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Dont know how old he is, but Dario Deidda should be on this list. One of very few electric bass player besides Steve Swallow who really functions well in a straight ahead jazz setting without going fusion.

Conclusión: la cantera de músicos brasileños es impresionante.

Mohini Dey?

Richard bona if you ever come across this please accept my apologies, please sir. You are an easy top 5 most mind boggling bass players I have witnessed. Also mr Wooten, the man I believe has had the biggest influence on the evolution of the bass guitar, my apologies extend to you too sir. Mr Wooten, you were doing things that no one could understand long before a “KZfaq”. That’s why you stood alone. No disrespect intended but there’s a reason if i only listened to the audio of this clip, except for a few, I wouldn’t be able to tell one from the other. KZfaq allowed instant access to everything you even thought you wanted to learn. Mr victor wooten listened to records but then had to develop his own unique sound in his bedroom without immediate access to other players techniques. This was like naming the greatest pop singers of all time and including Britney but forgetting Michael.

Dude these groove hard and earned a sub for sending all this to my ears

So glad you put MonoNeon in there.

Moto Fukushima.🥺🥺

Moto Fukushima is a killer player worth mentioning, amazing soloist

You can't fix perfection. Nobody has more perfect an arc as Dinobot.

THE FACT THAT MICHAEL LEAGUE LEADS snarky puppy says it All…

Era of virtuoso,love it❤️

Hahaha that cracked me up "great lines, great jumper"

Heavy technician passages you chose with 95% similar tonalities. Great players yes. I know at least half have shown the souls side. How about clips with FEEL.

Had the pleasure of meeting Michael League while working for Jazz venue in Manchester called Band on the Wall and filmed a project him and the SP crew did at the venue with local musicians. He's a great teacher too.

I was hoping for some Kinga Głyk (1997) in the end.

A huge list of very talented people! Great job!

Missing Anthony Crawford, but a comprehensive job, Scott!

wow Scott this is so incredible!!! I'd love to meet you one day in the UK. I am based in Madrid. Last week I have started lessons with Gary!! :)

Why nothing on Mohini Dey. She is unreal and I have not heard you give her love or did I just miss it. Also these pros you just showed are fantastic and half were new to me so I have some listening to do on Pandora. Ty

I was anticipating Esperanza Spalding, however these picks are phenomenal

Thank you Scot!, even though i was born in the early 70 , I agree with your picks!

Linley, your SOUND, gosh, love it

Mohini Dey should be on this list for sure 😎

Mohini Dey belongs on this list.

Dario Deidda, Etienne Mbappe, Michel Alibo

I'm much more excited by the lyrical or funky players who leave space in their soling than the ones who are more about speed. I respect the technical ability of all of them, but musically the really busy solos don't do much for me.

It would be awesome to see SBL workshop with Anton, Bubby, Mononeon, Junior :)

You're the best scott

hi scott i realy want to thank you and all the mentors in "Scott's Bass Lesson" i feel like im fainaly in the MOST rigth school now .......................it is so big im so new there and im Israeli so my English is not so good BUT im i heaven in there realy ' you are all soooooooooooooooooooo perfect teacher's

Finally Linley Marthe gets some attention. One of the most unique bassists out there... Lotsa great younger players out there, they stand on the shoulders of giants.

Bass is the future of modern music and thé style of New Word in the world

1:28 Is that HIROMI UEHARA? Fascinating pianist

Yeayy I was going to recommend you Dane Alderson but midway of watching I see you have included him in. I used to watch him play in Llama bar in Perth Australia when I was living there. He play regulars there with his band called Void, i think there are vids in youtube of them during that days. He's amazing, I used to watch him in awe with my mouth open

Hadrien looked like he rebooted in the middle of the solo 🤖🤖

some great creatives here. Who’s been digging E’Lon JD ?

Thundercat got 2 seconds of screen time💔

Janek sounds so much like Pat Metheny its crazy good. Gotta love anyone who loves Pat

Awesome players, thanks SBL! My favourite player is Dauno Martinez from Australia.... Seriously, he is on another level!

The selection is very good!

Excellent bp’s selection.👍👍

Thiago Espírito Santo 👏🏼👏🏼

Man - I would be super helpful if you'd include the names of the players you showcase in the description section of your videos. You have done several of these types of videos - and there are always cats I want to explore further - but Id have to rewatch the video to get the names. Links are always great - and Im sure the cats you showcase would love the views. But even just a text list would be much appreciated in the future. CHEERS!

I play Dub reggae used Pbass for the first 20 years, I switched up my string to a BEAD tuning and the old girl couldn’t handle it. Switched to a 2020 fender player, jazz, I can dial in my old tone plus it got a little bit of extra edge and can handle the lower tuning

It’s good to see Tony Grey getting some love.

Junior Braguinha e Michael Pipoquinha representando o nosso Brasil tão rico e tão musical... Que orgulho! 😍They're representing our rich and musical Brazil... What a pride!

Hey Scott! have you ever heard of the Chilean bassist Christian Galvez?? he has played with Billy Cobham. Hope you can see some videos!

I remember a band who told the bass player there's an extra $100 if you don't go pass the 7th fret. Looking for the quote.

All amazing players! I hear a little Jaco in all of them.

8:55 those freakishly long fingers almost look like claymation in that lighting 😆 Like it makes me think of Naked Lunch.

I would also like to thank the camera man at 8:27 for the wonderful shot. It's the moset replayed section on the video.

Scott, thanks for this post! I have to make an observation that you might think critical...I have to say that I simply adore the Fusion genre but a totally vast percentage of bassists playing in this field have pretty much so similar mid boosted sounds, and l don't think it's necessary! I've been playing bass since 1974 and I've always strived to get the sound of Jeff Berlin and l discovered it was due to him using Bartolini pickups. I now have 4 basses with top of the range Bart' preamps and pickups and have achieved that mid based Fusion sound. I realise that the electronics l use aren't necessarily the ultimate thing responsible for the mid sound, but they are responsible for me getting what l want. Anyway, I have to say that despite all the virtuosic bassists in Jazz and Fusion, my all-time totally favourite is Chris Squire without any doubt and l have to put him as the finest bassist in any band ever, on the planet in every way, shape and form, as well as being an incredible vocalist!!! I love him to bits as a fellow brotherly bassist and he really is the finest with a tone and playing ability in an awesome band. His ludicrous multi-time signature basslines plus awesome vocal harmonies are off the scale of brilliance!!! I miss him so much! XXXXX

That was great thx

Brazil going with monsters! Pipoquinha sounds very funny in your pronunciantion! Rsss is like a little popcorn! Kkkk Amazing bass player! Thanks for show me some names I don´t heard before.