“We hit it off right away. He saw me playing my '63 P-Bass and said, ‘That's a Bootsy bass, right?’” How a chance meeting between Pino Palladino and D’Angelo helped create the sound of the late neo-soul legend's Voodoo album

British bassist Pino Palladino performs at North Sea Jazz festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 10th July 2015. D'Angelo (right) performs during the 2012 Essence Music Festival at Louisiana Superdome on July 6, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Pino Palladino first entered the bass world's collective consciousness with his soaring, melodic fretless basslines (sometimes bolstered by a Boss octave pedal) on hits such as Paul Young's Everytime You Go Away, Don Henley’s New York Minute, and Chris DeBurgh's Lady in Red.

Before long, he became one of the most recognizable and imitated fretless players of his generation – and undoubtedly the most mimicked in his genre.