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It MIGHT be a generalization to say or imply that current practice is "to use a pick-up"/DI.
Depending on your perspective, you might not regard her as jazz, but Diana Krall's bass stuff is all recorded with mic only by Al Schmidt. Those records are far from two mic efforts, but I recall he did not spot everything. And many purists would not consider the music "jazz" or the the sound on these recordings to be very relevant to what they consider "jazz".
He had a forum for a while and when he first came on line he actually posted diagrahms of musician positioning to take advantage of the room reflections and mic nulls. While he seemed to defer to musicians, he seemed to prefer "all in one room, self balancing approach". Unfortunately I did not save it and he later took these drawings down and would not ever answer questions about them later. Even the forum is gone now - too bad.
But Al works in a VERY large "exceptional" rooms and has more than a little experience and great ears.
But as HenryR suggested, I see little harm (and quite a bit of safety) in using a pickup/DI. Hopefully it will not have to be used (my preference).
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