With this in mind, I and my predecessors have made an annual point since 1998 of awarding Lifetime Achievement Awards, in every year where business and/or pandemics haven’t prevented it. You will recall the amazing Bass Player LIVE! events that used to take place for this purpose: a similar live event will return when conditions allow. For now, we’re contenting ourselves with sending out the trophies to the winners, although believe me, we’d much rather be doing it in person and sharing a glass of champagne with as many of you as we could get into a venue. Watch this space!
The number of bass players who deserve this award is long, and growing all the time, making it tough to narrow the winners down to just four, as we have this year. Our legendary quartet are in esteemed company: For the record, here’s a list of the previous winners, which has never appeared in the magazine before, as far as I know.
1998 Milt Hinton, Bobby Rodriguez
1999 Chuck Rainey
2000 Joe Osborn, Percy Heath
2001 Jerry Jemmott, Leo Fender
2002 (no awards)
2003 (no awards)
2004 Anthony Jackson, Will Lee
2005 Ron Carter, Jack Bruce
2006 Stanley Clarke
2007 Lee Sklar, Tony Levin
2008 Carol Kaye, Verdine White, Mike Watt
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