We celebrate five great - and less great! - albums on which a notable bassist appears
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Italian bassist, songwriter and producer Lorenzo Feliciati is one of Europe’s most acclaimed bassists, with an extensive solo and collaborative live and recorded discography. He was inspired to take up the bass guitar after seeing Jaco Pastorius in concert with Weather Report during their Night Passage tour in 1982, and later honed his act as a rock and fusion musician in his twenties. He cites bassists such as Mick Karn of Japan, Pino Palladino and Percy Jones as influences. Over the years he has built prolific partnerships with King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto and sometime Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin, forming a band called Naked Truth with the former and the Twinscapes duo with the latter. He has conducted bass clinics at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilburg and at the Academy of Contemporary Music in London, and is an endorsee of Markbass basses, strings and amps; he also uses Cort, Maruszcyk, Ibanez, Camarota and Rufini basses, Earthquaker Devices, Strymon and Fingeramp gear.