WHO'S PLAYING
...the Eminence Portable Upright Bass®

Freelance acoustic bass player, composer, educator and promoter. Cofounder of MUJAM AC (Jazz Musicans of Mexico Civil Association), and currently dean at Academia de Musica Fermatta, Mexico City.

 See Agustín Bernal perform with the Bill Carrothers Trio in Monterrey, Mexico.

Performs improvised solos on the Eminence bass.

UK bassist.

Belgian bassist with The Sons of Navarone, voted Best European Bluegrass Band for 2012.

Bass player and composer of jazz and Brazilian rhythms, based in Rio de Janeiro.

Bassist with roots music group, Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising, out of Tualatin, OR.

Formerly recording, touring, and teaching New Jewish Music with the world class ensemble, Brave Old World.

With contemporary bluegrass band, Bud's Collective.

Country / christian / bluegrass bassist out of Nashville.

Austin freelance bassist.

Founding member of the bluegrass, rock, and improvisational band, The Brummy Brothers.

Jazz bassist, composer, and educator.

California bassist and educator; just signed on with a new Cirque du Soleil production.

"The bass arrived, and I absolutely love it. Great fat sound with the bow! The action is perfect, I can get a nice growl out of it like that. I could go on and on but excuse me I gotta go back to playing it!!"

 Here's Ariane's sound comparison between her Eminence and her acoustic upright bass.

Bassist formerly with Colorado-based Palmer Divide.

With the chamber-folk sextet, Dark Dark Dark.

California bassist with Pel and The Pelicans, among other bands.

Bassist with the LA gypsy jazz band, Hedgehog Swing.

Performs on the Eminence with Washington, DC-based Swing Shift Big Band.

Owner of one of the first Eminence basses, and currently with the Minnesota bluegrass band, Long Time Gone.

Jazz / latin bassist and composer.

 Watch Luques on the Eminence with Little Johnny Rivero and the Curtis Brothers.

New York-based bassist, composer and improvisor.

 Watch Lisle Ellis perform an experimental piece for solo bass & circuitry.

Bass professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Paul spends his summers teaching bass master classes in India with his Eminence Bass.

Canadian touring bassist and musical director.

 Here's Rob playing his Eminence with Nikki Yanofsky at a Paris nightclub.

With the bluegrass and old time band, Tucker Station String Band.

Formerly with the now defunct Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women.

Founding member and bassist with the former Fitzmaurice Band.

Bassist and composer. Played his Eminence bass on Jon Anderson's 2019 1000 Hands Tour.

With Europe's Klezmer Alliance.

Bassist out of Cork, Ireland. Played the Eminence on tour with The High Kings.

Austin bassist.

Member of the Chicago-based bluegrass band, Cornmeal.

 See Chris Gangi playing the Eminence at Dunegrass 2007.

Bassist with Ontario-based bluegrass band, Beeton Creek Rising.

Bluegrass bass pioneer, former bassist with Country Gentlemen, longtime member of Seldom Scene, and John Starling and Carolina Star. Tom's Eminence Bass is nicknamed "Skinny Minnie."

NYC jazz bassist.

Bassist with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper.

Formerly with the progressive bluegrass band, Bearfoot.

 View Kate play the Eminence with Bearfoot.

Live electronica / jazz / jam band bassist from Australia.

 See a performance of "Live Electronica" by Barry Hill and cyberbass.

Hot Buttered Rum

 Watch Bryan Horne and HBR with Peter Rowan at Merlefest 2008.

With bassist Clint Baker on the Eminence.

Seattle jazz bassist.

"I have great confidence in the bass and even 'purist' jazz players are almost always surprised at the sound quality after skeptical glances when I unpack the bass. No one has complained because the look of the bass is classic upright. You really changed my life Gary. Thanks."

With bluegrass / folk / indie band, The Boys n’ The Barrels.

 See Josh with the Eminence in a recording session for The Boys n’ The Barrels’ latest album.

Jazz bassist, composer and bandleader, plays the Eminence on tour with the John Abercrombie Quartet, as well as with Eliane Elias.

 View Marc Johnson play the Eminence for The Third Quartet (2nd part)...

 ...and in a performance with Eliane Elias.

Bassist with the Tony Rook Band.

Formerly with Nickel Creek and The Jerry Douglas Band. Currently plays his Eminence Bass for the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil.

 Watch Derek with Jerry Douglas at Telluride.

Bassist, composer, educator.

Yonder Mountain String Band

 Watch Ben Kaufmann on the Eminence with Yonder Mountain String Band at Telluride.

Massachusetts contradance host and bass instructor, formerly with Wild Asparagus.

Jazz / latin / classical, and bassist with the Anglo-Scandinavian contemporary jazz trio Stekpanna.

Jazz / fusion / funk bassist out of Sydney, Australia.

Bassist with The Blues Traveler. "I'd just like to thank you guys for making such an impeccable instrument that has brought me back to the upright bass."

Bassist, jazz composer and educator out of Hawaii.

Canadian freelance bassist and multi-instrumentalist. Plays his Eminence Bass on tour with Holly Cole, David Clayton-Thomas, Rita Chiarelli, Ian Thomas, and Eliana Cuevas. Says George, "I am blissfully happy with the bass."

 See George and the Eminence featured with Eliana Cuevas.

Bassist with Unexplained Bacon.

"I'd like to thank you for this wonderful instrument!!! For the last month I haven't been able to put it down & the transition from electric has been practically seamless."

Freelance bass and tuba player and composer/arranger in New York.

Las Vegas bassist.

The Waybacks

 Watch Joe Kyle, Jr. and the Waybacks at Floydfest 2007.

Canadian bassist currently performing with Irish tenor John McDermott.

Bassist with The Doubious Brothers.

Bassist and composer.

Owns an Eminence Bass for his band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.

Career jazz musician and bassist.

Québécois composer, arranger, and bassist with Nicolas Pellerin et les Grands Hurleurs.

Jazz musician, composer and producer.

Jazz bassist with Thelonius Monk, Less McCann, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard. Herbie recorded his latest CD Just a Lucky So and So with his Eminence Bass, which he called "Junior." Sadly, Herbie passed away on May 17, 2007. Read a tribute at JazzPolice.com.

 View Herbie performing with his Eminence at the Artists' Quarter in St. Paul - December, 2003.

Café Accordion Orchestra

Bassist with the Fort Collins-based progressive bluegrass quartet, Head for the Hills.

With the old time country, gospel and bluegrass band, Old Hat, as well as the bluegrass, gospel, and acoustic pop group, Flickertail Holler.

Bassist with the Swedish musical quartet, Yonder.

Traveled with his Eminence Bass on Dolly Parton's 2007 European Tour.

New York jazz bassist.

Philadelphia bassist, guitarist, composer, arranger, and teacher.

Professional double-bass / bass guitar player from Moscow, now living in Prague, Czech Republic.

Freelance bassist out of Madrid, Spain.

Jazz bassist, formerly with Arturo Sandoval. Currently professor of bass at the University of North Florida.

Bassist, composer, and teaching artist.

Playing his Eminence bass on tour with Ray Brown, Jr.

LA bassist.

New York singer-songwriter, bassist with the Canadian folk ensemble The Wailin' Jennys, and a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.

Bassist with the folk and bluegrass band, Crunchy Western Boys.

Snohomish, WA bassist with the bluegrass/Americana/gospel band, Roosevelt Road.

Toronto bassist with the Max Woolaver Band, among several other gigs.

Indie rock band with bassist, Tom Peloso.

 See Modest Mouse with the Eminence on the David Letterman Show.

Cuban bassist performing with Colin Hay, Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band, Cecilia Noel and The Wild Clams, among others.

Jazz bassist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Irish bassist currently touring with Van Morrison.

Formerly with Cadillac Sky.

 Catch Andy with Cadillac Sky in their music video filmed in the Cumberland Caverns of Bluegrass Underground...

 ...and in a performance at the Didmarton Bluegrass Festival in Gloucestershire, England.

With global shtetl band - folk / latin / roots music out of Germany.

 See Markus Mueller with global shtetl band.

Bassist formerly with Old School Freight Train, now with his new band, Love Canon.

 Watch Darrell Muller on the Eminence with Old School Freight Train.

Playing the Eminence with Poverty Hash, in a genre they call "carnival blues".

 See Jason Murray with Joe Roberto and Poverty Hash.

Jazz bassist, and director of bands at Stevenson Middle School in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Bassist formerly with The Lovell Sisters.

 Check out Andy Nall with The Lovell Sisters at Merlefest 2008.

Currently with Mike Bourne & Atlanta Boogie, and Mudd's Kitchen.

Bassist, vocalist, bandleader, composer, arranger & songwriter based out of Los Angeles, CA.

Blues / country / folk bassist out of Sweden.

French bassist, arranger and producer. Recording bassist for the soundtrack of Winged Migration, and currently playing his Eminence Bass with the Gipsy Kings.

Bassist with Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks.

Acoustic / jazz / celtic bassist; currently touring with Sam Bush, and plays the Eminence on tour with The Jerry Douglas Band as well.

 View Todd Parks with Jerry Douglas & Tim O'Brien at Celtic Connections 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bassist with the acoustic folk quartet, Sweet Cacophony.

Bassist/ media artist/ composer / sound editor out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Songwriter and bassist; played bass in the original incarnation of Union Station with Alison Krauss.

Bassist for Goldfish, the South African nu-jazz / electronica / down-tempo duo.

 See Dominic Peters on the Eminence with Goldfish.

Bassist with The Spinney Brothers.

With The Oly Mountain Boys.

Bass and vocals with TrueGrass.

Jazz vocalist and bassist.

Voted Bass Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association for a record-setting SEVEN times.

Bass player out of Charlottesville, VA.

Teaches jazz bass at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, and regularly performs at local jazz clubs with the newly formed group, The New Shoes (formerly the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band).

Bassist / vocalist / composer, formerly with the Parisian-based world music group, Paris Combo.

Jazz bassist, currently with The Wilder Brothers.

 Catch Andy and the Eminence at his former beach gig in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The Impossible Gentleman

Bassist and composer out of Caracas, Venezuela.

Ohio-based freelance bassist, vocalist, composer, arranger and audio engineer, performing with several groups including Arctic Clam, Swingmania, and the Bluewater Kings Band.

(aka “Della May”) Bassist with the all-female bluegrass band, Coaltown Dixie, from the Appalachian hills of East Kentucky.

Bassist and founding member of North Carolina bluegrass band, Nu-Blu.

 Here's Carolyn and Nu-Blu performing their chart single.

Austin recording artist and bassist. Mark says his removable neck Eminence Bass paid for itself in nine months from the money he saved on oversize charges. His Eminence is strung with gut G and D strings.

 And catch his Bad Livers Duo Jam at Slim's in San Francisco.

Playing bass with The Millbillys and Well Strung.

Jazz bassist, educator and recording artist.

Formerly with the Robert Cray Band.

 View Karl with the Robert Cray Band and Hubert Sumlin at the Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Bassist with Crowded House.

Played the Eminence on Spinal Tap's "Unwigged and Unplugged" tour.

 See Harry Shearer and the Eminence in "Unwigged and Unplugged"!

Bassist with Minneapolis-based Kind Country.

Nothin’ Fancy Bluegrass

Longtime Ani DiFranco bassist.

Belgian bassist performing with the jazz/funk/fusion band, the Stage Men Quartet.

Bassist and educator, jazz director at Boston area's Milton Academy, and a faculty member at Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops and Jazzwise Summer School in London. Bob tours and performs in South Africa, each time traveling with his Eminence bass.

Read the JazzEd Magazine article about Bob's work with jazz students, and their travels to South Africa.

Bassist with the bluegrass, jamgrass, and Americana band, Cascade Crescendo, out of Portland, OR.

Currently with Minneapolis-based Darkwood Flower.

Canadian bassist with The Marc Atkinson Trio.

Currently playing his Eminence on tour with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks.

From their recent Japan tour: "I put the bass through the paces, breaking down every night, bullet trains, in Japan flights. It was killer! The bass sounded great!"

Bassist with the contemporary bluegrass group, The Grascals.

With the group, Touché Monet, out of Norway.

Jazz bassist, singer, composer, and the youngest faculty member in the history of Berklee College of Music.

 See Esperanza Spalding with the Eminence at the Jazz House in Copenhagen.

Canadian bluegrass bassist with Traditionally Wound Bluegrass Band.

 Watch Sheldon Speedie with Traditionally Wound playing at a hunt camp in the bush.

Latin jazz and world bassist, double recipient of the Latin Grammy for recordings with Paquito D' Rivera, and professor of bass at Berklee College of Music.

Bassist with the Twin Cities-based jazz septet and composer's workshop, CC Septet.

New Morning Sky

Bassist with the cult punk-burlesque trio The Tiger Lillies.

 View Adrian Stout on the Eminence in the Tiger Lillies & Alexander Hacke performance, Mountains of Madness.

Bassist, composer, singer, multi instrumentalist, and poet.

"By the way - I continue to enjoy the heck out of this bass. I'm a jazz player primarily, and I tend to use it for traveling gigs and/or gigs where space is extremely limited.

Everywhere I go it attracts attention and questions. The bass players in the audience are amazed by how natural it sounds."

Swedish multi-instrumentalist; formerly with G2 Bluegrass ("Second generation" bluegrass from Sweden).

 Watch Jimmy with G2 Bluegrass.

Balsam Range

Bassist with funk / acoustic / jam band Bob Weir & RatDog.

Studio and freelance bassist, clinician and educator.

Film music composer/conductor, and bass player, from Argentina.

With gypsy jazz ensemble Jazz Gitan.

Bassist with Agassiz Railroad Bluegrass Band.

Formerly played the Eminence with Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike; currently with the Platte Valley Boys.

 Watch David on the Eminence with Valerie Smith & Libery Pike.

Jazz bassist and composer our of Boston, originally from Greece.

Bassist with the gypsy jazz band, French Toast Swing.