Jazz Articles about Musa Manzini

Musa Manzini: My Bass

by Seton Hawkins
November 17, 2005

My Bass, Musa Manzini's third solo outing, is an album by a bassist, for bassists. Manzini is not afraid to wear his influences on his sleeve--the solo bass overdubbing and slapping of Victor Wooten, the genre-hopping creativity of Gito Baloi, and much more can all be heard here. However, Manzini very much has his own voice. On electric bass, he favors high-register playing and can toss off long, flowing melodic lines that can turn into funky, mid-register riff-like statements at ...