GOAT.

Weirdly enough Kaye doesn't seem to have a great reputation among bassists. Which is to say she's generally respected for the tracks she has a high-profile role in but she's treated like a blowhard.

For decades they complain that she claims to have played on all kinds of famous songs that they're 100% up and down certain that James Jamerson or other session bassists of the time actually had. So recently she literally brought receipts -- had the Musician's Union compile their pay records for every session she worked on, and she made a long post on Facebook listing them. So then the old guys complained that she's a cranky old lady trying to be arrogant and why is she even posting this.

So even sixty years later it has absolutely nothing to do with her work or musicianship, it's entirely because she's a woman. Not particularly surprised that the only non-contemporary they could find to speak in praise of her was another woman bassist.

@ardgedee This was discussed in the 500 songs podcast too, the idea that she has claimed to be on more songs than she actually was. It sounds like record keeping was slack enough that even knowing who was at a session doesn’t necessarily prove who was on the final take. She definitely deserves her place among the studio greats, no matter what the specific numbers are.

@ardgedee I quit reading her blog after 9/11, when it became all USA! and anti-Muslim rants.

This is the best discussion I know of concerning the Kaye/Jamerson dispute : https://www.cambridge.org/core...