I like Chris' playing here. There's enough hairiness to it that it sounds human, but it is still quite technical and has an ethos of jazz at its core.
I really can't get behind that school of thought that the pinnacle of bass playing is playing rigidly through transcribed Ornette Coleman solos on a six string Ken Smith bass with a bit of chorus, using only the bridge pickup. With jazz, I would rather hear complex through-composed passages on their original instruments rather than bass. Wind instruments will always be more expressive that a clean bass tone.
