Pino Palladino

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Eddie Vedder's Ohana Festival bore witness to the birth of a new supergroup this weekend when the Pearl Jam frontman stepped in to replace Kings of Leon at short notice on September 24. The original Friday headliners were forced to cancel their set in order to allow brothers and bandmates...

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder stepped in with an all-star band after Kings Of Leon's Followill brothers were forced to pull out of their headline set at Ohana Festival in California last night (24 September) to be with their mother Betty Ann in her final moments. Elite bassist Pino Palladino, Red...

Jon Button has a long resume of gigs with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Shakira, Mandy Moore, James Blunt, and Robben Ford. His most recent gig with The Who saw him faced with the daunting task of playing the bass parts of the much-missed John Entwistle. Did the gig with...

"Yeah, Pino, do you have this big archive of stuff?" Blake Mills is ribbing Pino Palladino about the question I just asked, but it's something we're both very interested to know. "Yeah, I do," the legendary bassist exasperatedly replies, as if he's finally let out the secret that he's been composing and recording original music throughout four-and-a-half decades, keeping it to himself until now.

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“All musicians are the same, we all think we’re rubbish,” Pino Palladino told a British television interviewer in 2013, adding a gentle laugh. It was a typically massive understatement from the quietly affable Welsh bassist, among the highest-regarded session players in the music industry. In this case, Palladino was referring to hearing Paul Young’s “Wherever I Lay My Hat” on the radio for the first time in 1983 – particularly his casual contribution, one of the most recognizable bass lines of the 1980s. “I was worried that it sounded a bit out of tune,” he said.

By his own admission, Pino Palladino is not a man much accustomed to giving interviews. “Very reticent,” he nods during a Zoom call, his accent speaking noticeably louder of his childhood in Cardiff than his current home in LA. “You know, there was a time when I was featured in all sorts of musicians’ magazines, and then I just thought to myself, ‘Move over, there’s people out there that actually need the publicity.’ Not to blow smoke up my own arse,” he adds hurriedly, “but really I just didn’t want to see or hear from myself.”

Welsh bass virtuoso Pino Palladino has enjoyed a prolific career as a session musician, recording with pop superstars such as Adele and Ed Sheeran, playing bass in The Who after John Entwistle's death, and collaborating with the likes of D'Angelo, John Mayer, Elton John and many more. What Palladino isn't...

At the time of this recording I was probably 15 or 16—I was just getting into music when I heard "(I'm A) Roadrunner." This track by Junior Walker on Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3 just turned me around—I just couldn't get enough of it and must have played it 100 times.

“It all evolved from me playing Blake a few ideas, getting a reaction from [him] and seeing if he’d be interested in working on [them],” he said. “As the project evolved in the first few weeks and months—even though the music was mostly coming from my original ideas, some of which I’d had for quite a while—[because of] Blake’s response to the ideas, it dawned on both of us that it would be a collaborative record.”

If a musician could win a medal for good taste, that distinction would easily have gone by now to Pino Palladino. An electric bassist highly regarded across the musical spectrum, Palladino helped define the sound of some of our biggest stars, from David Knopfler to D'Angelo. Now he has finally...

Bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills have released their guest-filled, experimental collaboration album, Notes With Attachments, which arrived on Friday (3/12) via New Deal/Impulse. The eight-track, 31-minute studio album was recorded at southern California’s famed Sound City Studios and other locations over the past two-and-a-half years and includes a...

I like to think of myself as being a compositional player who has a capacity to fit into different genres. That's what has always interested me. Refined craftsmanship is in small supply in today's music business, especially in the music business that fills sports arena or large music venues. Pino Palladino belongs to the small guild of refined craftsmen whose membership is reserved to musicians who do not seek the spotlight but pursue beauty through art, because that is what they were meant to do and how they were meant to do it, no ego, fully at the service of Her Majesty, The Music.

Do not be put off by the cover. It might suggest inaccessible, up itself, bone-dry cerebralism, but the reality is contrariwise. Around a third of the music is vaguely reminiscent, in spirit if not in execution, of the 1949 -1950 Birth Of The Cool sessions conducted by Miles Davis with arrangers Gil Evans, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Carisi. Much of the rest sounds like a sci-fi twist on traditional Senegambian music.

Bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills continue to share new compositions set to appear on the duo’s forthcoming Notes With Attachments collaboration album due out next month on March 12th. On Wednesday, the duo shared yet another live studio video with saxophonist Sam Gendel which spotlights their studio performance...

Bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills continue to share new compositions which will appear on the duo’s forthcoming Notes With Attachments collaboration album due out next month on March 12th. On Wednesday the duo shared a new live video for a piece titled “Djurkel”, which also features sublime playing from saxophonist Sam Gendel.

Bassist Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist/producer Blake Mills have shared another new recording that will appear on the duo’s forthcoming collaboration album Notes With Attachments, due out March 12th via New Deal/Impulse!. Entitled, “Ekuté”, the 5:30 minute piece follows previously-shared compositions “Just Wrong” and “Man From Molise”, and features playing from...

Click the play button to listen to this episode of Mondo Jazz. The future of the jazz is in good hands as you'll hear from the emerging artists featured on this show, ranging in style from Chris Pattishall's stunning modern take on Mary Lou Williams' "Zodiac Suite" to the eclectic first album by Slovenian singer Mirna Bogdanovic. Bass veteran Pino Palladino has a different 'first': his debut album on Impulse! where he's joined by Blake Mills, Larry Goldings, Sam Gendel, Marcus Strickland, Jacques Schwarz-Bart and Chris Dave.