060 - In Conversation with Ruth Goller - Punk Jazz

Published: April 26, 2017, 4 a.m.

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In today\\u2019s podcast Ruth Goller talks us through her inspired bass work with some of the coolest names on the London jazz scene.

Ruth has been a regular presence on the London jazz scene for several years now, toting a Fender Mustang and performing with a wide variety of bands including The Moss Project, Let Spin and punk-jazz rockers Acoustic Ladyland. Yet for all her jazz knowledge, Ruth\\u2019s unfussy technique favours sparse plectrum work over busy fingerstyle. Her background is distinctly non-jazz, and in spite of having chops to spare, an attitude of \\u2018less is more\\u2019 informs everything that she plays.

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