How to Use bassist in a Sentence

bassist

noun

• Mackey, Pulp’s bassist, died last year at the age of 56.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2024
• Nathan got his start in San Diego as the teen bassist in Power.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• That same year, Rolling Stone ranked him 28th on its list of the 50 greatest bassists of all time.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The band consisted of a drummer and bassist on the right side of the stage, keyboardist, guitarist, and DJ on the left.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
• Hart, the band’s bassist, shared the news in an online post on Monday morning.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• First the strings, then two guitarists, two keyboardists, a bassist and a drummer to round it out.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2023
• Baker went backstage and even got a shoutout on Twitter from the band’s bassist, Flea.
  — Patrick Donnelly, Chron, 9 Apr. 2023
• Longtime bassist Kevin Ray left the band in December 2020.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• Despite only posting up here for the better part of 10 years, the bassist left an imprint on the abode in more ways than one.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
• Over chicken and potatoes, Stoner, the tour’s bassist, and bandleader, reviewed the show.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• The band also revealed that former bassist Bill Wyman appears on one of the album's tracks.
  — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The film opens with the band’s front man, David Byrne, playing solo, but the concert only comes alive when he’s joined by the bassist Tina Weymouth.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• For Bob Crawford, the bassist for the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers, history has been his distraction of choice.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Clapton’s bassist, then and now, is former San Diegan Nathan East.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is their first Valley concert since the death of founding bassist Rick Anderson.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2023
• Both were made for him in Denver by fellow bassist and luthier Kent McLagan.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Bill Lee, the jazz bassist and composer who performed with a number of music greats and scored the early films of Spike Lee, his son, has died.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• Robertson became the bassist in the Hawks shortly afterward.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Thirteen years later, the bassist Rick Danko’s heart gave out at age fifty-five, and, in 2012, the drummer Levon Helm succumbed to throat cancer.
  — Howard Fishman, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• Geezer Butler, 73, is the bassist and primary lyricist in the English hard-rock band Black Sabbath.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• Allwyn also has a musical background and is a bassist and singer.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• One star not slowing down amid the actors strike is Keanu Reeves, who on Tuesday night returned to his rockstar side gig as bassist for band Dogstar.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023
• Among those killed in the attack was Jake Marlowe, a former bassist in the British hardcore band Desolated.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• Her longtime partner in life and music, the bassist Steve Swallow, said the cause was complications of brain cancer.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Fitzgerald, their bassist, succumbed to his injuries in the hospital hours later.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
• Pete Loving, Eddie’s brother and the band’s bassist made up the sixth member of what is ultimately renamed The Six.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
• Each bassist will have a feature spot and there will also be a number of multiple-bass selections.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• Pete, the bassist, is not a member of the band The book tells a story of a seven-person band which drops to six only after Chuck's deployment in Vietnam.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the performance at the now-defunct Club Lingerie on Sunset Boulevard, the band’s bassist was dressed as a jester, the drummer wore a demon mask and a horn player was dressed as a carrot.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024