The Art of the Bass Choir

Here's something different: California-born, New York-based Lincoln Goines is one of the best bassists of his generation with a career rooted in the jazz world and recordings with Dizzy Gillespie, Idris Muhammad, Paquito D'Rivera, Carly Simon and other giants. But he delivers azure notes aplenty in this thoroughly enjoyable, classy and primarily instrumental set.

A longtime professor at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, Goines delivers 16 clever arrangements, trading riffs and cutting heads with ten other bass masters, including Victor Wooten, Mike Pope, Tom Kennedy and Ksenia Vasileva.

If you like your music deep in the beat, don't miss "All Blues," "Spank a Lee," "Spin the Floor," "Three Views of a Secret," "Good Morning, Midnight," "Hang Up Your Hang Ups," "Oleo," "Liberty City" and "Vassar Llean."