Fender Player Jazz Bass - 3-Tone Sunburst with Maple Fingerboard Reviews
First introduced in 1960, the Fender Jazz Bass has withstood the test of time to become one of the most played and recorded instruments here at Sweetwater — and in modern music history! The Fender Player Series Jazz Bass celebrates this heritage with upgrades that working musicians will appreciate. With its offset alder body and fast-action maple neck, this J Bass is incredibly comfortable to play and lets you pull off extremely tight runs and grooves with ease. It also delivers the legendary J Bass punch and growl, courtesy of two Player Series Alnico 5 single-coil pickups. Get your groove on with the Fender Player Series Jazz Bass.
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She’s a Sweet Thang !
After a couple of twists on the truss rod, a couple of turns on the string height screws, and a little touch of intonation adjustment, the Fender Players Jazz Bass is one "Sweet Thang"! Gut grabbing bass on the low strings and twang on the high strings. The potentiometers are very responsive and are more than capable of helping the player to dial in that " sweet sound" everybody looks for. My Sweetwater Sale's Rep, Charlie Davies, said " You will love this bass". Charlie you are Correct! Sweet Thangs come from Sweetwater and Fender!
3 tone burst w/ maple player jazz.
Been a p guy for 30 years, my first jazz! Wow!!! Great neck, well made, sounds awesome, looks perfect. Got a set of rotos to put on after the Fender strings die. Good service as usual.
Great buy!
Excellent sound and extremely comfortable. Hard to beat the quality & price on this monster. As always Tom took care of us. Definitely recommend this product.
My fender bass
My fender Jazz bass is a very good piece of equipment. It heads as good aggressive tone that is punchy and really good quality. My bass has some other thing to it too. Instead of the baby looking bridge that’s isn’t really cool. My bridge is a BADASS BASS II and looked at many basses and I found none. It’s awesome and a great thing to have
The standard in bass guitars.
I guess you can say my review of this bass may be a little biased as I am a big fan of Fender bass guitars. I bought this for my son, who is a beginner, but is quickly outgrowing his short scale bass that he plays in the Jazz Band at school. I let him play other brands and this is what he liked playing the most.
I would honestly give this bass a 5 star rating but there are a few things that prevent me from giving it that rating. The bass is kind of pricey. Unfortunately, the only Fender Jazz bass model cheaper than this would be a Fender Squier and they just did not seem to be nearly as nice as this bass. Although, they are half the price and that should be expected. The bridge doesn't seem to be any better quality than the lesser priced Squier models. My early 2000's Fender Fretless Jazz bass has numbers on the volume and tone knobs. Very helpful to know where you have the knobs set to. The knobs on the new bass only have a white line on the top so you have to remember where the line was set to if you want to dial in a tone that you liked at a specific setting. On the old Jazz bass you could just write remember the numbers on the knobs. Not a big deal, but I feel the numbered knobs are better. These are my only gripes with the bazz and some could say I am being nit picky, but this is not a cheap bass.
Now, let's talk about why this bass is worth every penny spent on it. It looks and plays AMAZING!!! Seriously, this bass plays so nice. The neck is a nice width and your hand slides easily up and down the neck. Right out of the box it is easy to play with no fret buzz anywhere. The action does need to be lowered just a bit, but that is personal taste.
The bass also sounds great! It is such a versatile bass that can accommodate any style of playing you throw at it. There is a reason so many bass players choose the Fender Jazz bass....because it really is a great instrument. One other thing I've noticed is that a Fender bass will hold it's value over time and will probably be worth more than you payed for it down the road.
My son loves playing his Fender Jazz bass and so do I when he's not around ;-)
