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2 unusual facts about Double bass


People Will Talk

The film also highlights Praetorius's close friend and confidant, physics professor Lyonel Barker (Slezak), who plays bass viol in the student/faculty orchestra conducted by Praetorius.

The Seventh Son

The exact personnel on the session is not known for sure but is most likely Willie Mabon (vocals, piano), Bill Martin (trumpet), Herbert Robinson (tenor saxophone), Willie Dixon (bass), and Oliver Coleman (drums).


Appenzeller string music

The year 1892 saw the foundation of the so-called "Original Sting Music from Appenzell" Streich-Quintett Appenzell, a quintet from Appenzell featuring two violins, a dulcimer, a cello and a double bass.

Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass

Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass is a contemporary classical album released by the double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer.

Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac

Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac (born 1962) is a virtuoso double bass player who performed with Jacques Loussier and Andre Arpino playing renditions by Johann Sebastian Bach / Eric Satie.

Chris Barber

There Chris Albertson recorded several sides for the new Danish Storyville label, including some featuring only Sunshine, Donegan and Barber on double bass.

Czech folklore

There are a number of instruments associated with Czech folk music, which add to its distinct sound – violin and the double bass; instruments specific to Bohemia and Moravia such as bagpipes (bock), shepherd’s pipe, dulcimer and trumpet.

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana is the last album by Sierra Leonean highlife and palm wine musician S. E. Rogie, featuring the double bassist, Danny Thompson.

East Meets East

East Meets East is a collaborative studio album released through EMI Classics in 2003 by violinist Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band (Jerzy Bawoł on accordion, Tomasz Kukurba on viola and Tomasz Lato on double bass), surrounded by several guest artists of international reputation such as Natacha Atlas, Mo Foster, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.

Eerik Siikasaari

Eerik Siikasaari (born in 1957) is a Finnish jazz bassist who is probably best known as a member of Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio.

Enrique Peña Sánchez

In 1902 he moved to Havana, and founded the band La Juventud, with himself as director and cornet, Rogelio Solis (double bass), Félix González (figle), José Belén Puig (first clarinet), José Urfé (second clarinet), José de los Reyes (kettle drum) and Rufino Cárdenas (güiro).

Eugene Kurtz

His best known composition is The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas (1974), for double bass and female narrator, which was composed for Bertram Turetzky and his wife Nancy Turetzky, who have performed it frequently.

Foghorn Stringband

The band was originally named Foghorn Leghorn and the lineup consisted of Stephen "Sammy" Lind on fiddle and harmony vocals, the Reverend P. T. Grover, Jr., on banjo, Caleb Klauder on mandolin and harmony vocals, and Brian Bagdonas on bass.

Friedrich Dotzauer

Born in Haselrieth, near Hildburghausen, to a father who was a church music minister, he learned at a young age to play a number of instruments, including piano, double bass, violin, clarinet, and horn.

George Mraz

George Mraz (born Jiří Mráz on 9 September 1944 in Písek, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now Czech Republic) is a jazz bassist and alto saxophonist.

Harold Fethe

The date features an all-star cast of musicians, including Johnny Frigo on violin, Jim Cox on acoustic bass, Joe Vito on piano and accordion, and Joanie Pallatto on vocals.

Herbert Hardesty

His first trio performed at The Hurricane Bar (3726 S. Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, a few blocks from where he was living) with Hardesty playing Double bass accompanied by a guitarist and pianist, similar to Nat King Cole's group.

Jason Reolon

The Restless Natives is a contemporary quintet, consisting of Kesivan Naidoo on Drums, Jason Reolon on Piano, Chris Engel on alto and baritone Saxophone, Shane Cooper on Double Bass and Lee Thomson on trumpet and flugelhorn.

Kolsimcha – The World Quintet

Over the years the band grew to its current line up of five musicians - Michael Heitzler (clarinet), Olivier Truan (piano), Ariel Zuckermann (flute, previously Roman Glaser and Niki Reiser), Daniel Fricker (double bass), and Christoph Staudenmann (drums, previously Fabian Kuratli (†) and David Klein).

Lloyd Trotman

Lloyd Trotman (May 25, 1923 – October 3, 2007), born in Boston, was a jazz bassist who backed numerous jazz, dixieland, doo-wop and R&B artists in the 50s and 60s.

Mark Schatz

Mark Schatz (born April 23, 1955) is an American bassist, banjoist, mandolinist, and clogger who has recorded and toured with artists such as albums for artists such as Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Jerry Douglas, Maura O'Connell, Tony Rice, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Tim O'Brien.

Nel cor più non mi sento

Other composers who wrote variations based on Paisiello's work include Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giovanni Bottesini (for double bass), Johann Baptist Wanhal, and notably, Paganini ("Introduction and variations in G major" for violin, Op. 38, MS 44, 1827).

Nick McCarthy

He was trained classically as a pianist and double bassist at the Munich Conservatory.

Octobass

It has three strings and is essentially a larger version of the double bass (the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures 3.48 meters in length, whereas a full size double bass is generally approximately 2 meters in length).

Per Mathisen

Per Mathisen (born 7 October 1969 in Sandefjord, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (Double bass and guitar bass) and Composer, known from collaborations with great jazz musicians like Terri Lyne Carrington, Geri Allen, Gary Thomas, Bill Bruford, Alex Acuña, Gary Husband, Ralph Peterson, Nguyen Le and Terje Rypdal.

Ronnie Boykins

This is especially pronounced on the key recordings from 1965 (The Magic City, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two) where the intertwining lines of Boykins' bass and Ra's electronic keyboards provide the cohesion.

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (born 1975 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American acoustic and electric, bassist and oud player who has recorded and performed extensively with Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits, Daniel Zamir's Satlah, Rashanim, and Pharaoh's Daughter, and John Zorn.

St Giles Orchestra

He has studied conducting with George Hurst and Adrian Leaper at Canford Summer School of Music, and is well known in Oxfordshire as a player of French horn and double bass, and as composer of mainly romantic style pieces ranging from small ensembles to large-scale symphonic works.

The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

Steve Davisbass (disc 4: 1-11; disc 5: 1-10; disc 6: 1-3; disc 7: 23-25)

The Three Sounds

The original line-up consisted of Gene Harris on piano, Andrew Simpkins on double bass and Bill Dowdy on drums, along with saxophonist Lonnie 'The Sound' Walker, who dropped out the following year.

Thou Swell

An instrumental version was recorded in Oslo on April 29, 1954 by "Verden Rundt's" All Star Band (Rowland Greenberg (trp) - A. Skjold (trombone) - K. Stokke (alt) - K. Bergheim (tenor) - Knut Hyrum (baritone) - I. Børsum (bass) - Scott Lunde (piano) - K. O. Hoff (drums)).

Tom Fun Orchestra

The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.

Two-Shade

Two-Shade, a 2009 jazz trio album, is Gerald Clayton's discographic debut as a leader, featuring long-time friends and collaborators Joe Sanders on double bass and Justin Brown on drums.


see also

A Big Hunk o' Love

The rest of the musicians were top Nashville session men, such as guitarist Hank Garland on Gibson Byrdland guitar, Floyd Cramer on piano, Bob Moore on double bass, Buddy Harman and D.J.Fontana on a drums .

Alistair Hinton

His other compositions include sonatas, variations and other works for piano, a violin concerto (dedicated to Jane Manning), songs (amongst them settings of Rabindranath Tagore, Hinton's Opp. 9 and 12), works for the organ, a string quintet (for two violins, viola, cello, double-bass and soprano, and lasting for 2 hrs 45 mins in performance), and a Sinfonietta.

Amancio D'Silva

Living in Essex in the 1980s, he would play regularly at jazz clubs in Ipswich, as well as a series of concerts at St. Mary's Arts Centre in Colchester around 1985, which featured amongst others Marcio Mattos on double bass, and also concerts at Norwich Arts Centre.

Anton Torello

Torello performed solo recials, chamber works and also appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra (27–28 February 1920, performing Lorenziti's concerto for viola d'amore and double bass with Thaddeus Rich).

Attar of Nishapur

Notably, jazz bassist David Holland's album, which was written as a metaphor for his own enlightenment, and Om's Conference of the Birds, which deals with extremely esoteric themes often connected with metaphors of flight, inward vision, destruction of self, and oneness with the cosmos

Banda do Casaco

After the failure of the Filarmónica Fraude project, more for political reasons than quality, António Pinho (singer) and Luís Linhares (keys) joined with the ex Musica Novarum member Nuno Rodrigues (vocals and guitar) and Celso de Carvalho (Cello and Double bass) to form the group Banda do Casaco.

Biréli Lagrène

Along with his usual cohorts Diego Imbert (double bass) and Hono Winterstein (rhythm guitar), the latter session featured Henri Salvador and Thomas Dutronc (son of legendary French pop pair Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc).

Black Angel Blues

Robert Nighthawk recorded "Black Angel Blues" in 1949, with Nighthawk (electric slide guitar), Willie Dixon (double bass), and Ernest Lane (piano) (Aristocrat 2301).

Bowed guitar

Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead, plays bowed guitar live on "Pyramid Song" to make sounds similar to whale cries (his brother Colin Greenwood used to make them on double bass).

Cecilia Amenábar

She collaborated in vocals and double bass in Cerati's first solo album: Amor Amarillo.

Circus Farm

Ted Smith played a Slingerland drum set on the 1968 version and a Premier custom made chome drum set with double bass drums on the 1969 versions.

Clear Blue in Stormy Skies

Steve Balbi — Produced by, guitars, double bass, toy drums, backing vocals

Corinthian Chamber Orchestra

The orchestra also regularly performs with more established artistes, such as Jeff Bryant (French horn), Laura Samuel (violin), David Fletcher (double bass), John Carnac (clarinet), Hannah Gordon (narrator, Peter and the Wolf), Arisa Fujita (violin), Richard Jenkinson ('cello) and So'Ock Kim (violin).

Dennis Trembly

Active as a soloist, Trembly was a semifinalist in the 1973 G. B. Dealey Competition in Dallas, and won second prize at the 1978 International Double Bass Competition on the Isle of Man, where he performed the Concerto in E Major, by Karl Dittersdorf, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Dick Lövgren

In September 2010, Lövgren was accepted into the Gothenburg Music University to study improvisation and composition with Anders Jormin, the Swedish jazz double bass player, arranger and bandleader who has worked with numerous jazz artists, such as Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, Tomasz Stańko, Don Cherry, Elvin Jones, Gilberto Gil, Lee Konitz, Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler and Jon Balke.

Enrique Mario Francini

In 1954 he took part in a homage to Juan Carlos Cobián in a quintet comprising the tango musicians Aníbal Troilo on bandoneon, Roberto Grela on guitar, Kicho Díaz on double bass and Horacio Salgán on piano.

The following year he joined Astor Piazzolla’s Octeto Buenos Aires with the bandoneons of Piazzolla and Roberto Pansera (later replaced by Leopoldo Federico), the violin of Hugo Baralis, the cello of José Bragato, the double bass of Aldo Nicolini (later replaced by Juan Vasallo), the electric guitar of Horacio Malvicino and the piano of Atilio Stampone.

Fausto Romitelli

Music for László Moholy-Nagy's film Ein Lichtspiel, schwarz-weiss-grau for recorder, double bass, guitar, percussion and piano, 1997

Gwen Thompson

She has been a member of two notable chamber music ensembles with whom she has made several commercial recordings: the Masterpiece Trio (1977–1988) and Viveza, the latter of which she formed in 1989 with Lee Duckles (cello), Wilmer Fawcett (double-bass), Mark Koenig (violin), and Linda Lee Thomas (piano).

Israel Crosby

A close contemporary of Jimmy Blanton, Crosby is less considered as a pioneer, but his interactive playing in Jamal's trio and that of George Shearing shows how easily and fluently he displayed a modern approach to jazz double bass.

Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens.

Jan Tausinger

Hukvaldský nonet (Hukvaldy Nonet) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1974)

Jean-Pierre Robert

It is the period of his " Installation art" with the musics of Georges Aperghis and John Cage (in the Georges-Pompidou Center) with his " 1 Double bass - 1 Human " being with the musics of James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacinto Scelsi, etc.

Joel Quarrington

After he received a degree in music from the University of Toronto, he went on to Austria and Italy to study under two renowned double bass pedagogues, respectively Ludwig Streicher and Franco Petracchi.

Kicho Díaz

Díaz, widely known by his nickname Kicho, was born in the city of Avellaneda in the Province of Buenos Aires, and had two older brothers, David, who became a tango violinist and José (aka Pepe) who became a tango double bass player.

Lennie Bush

Leonard Walter "Lennie" Bush (June 6, 1927, London – June 15, 2004) was an English jazz double-bassist.

Live at Crawley

Thompson had appeared with double bass player and now-regular collaborator Danny Thompson at the Crawley Jazz Festival in 1993.

Lucid Druid

Highlighting the original compositions of two-time World Champion bagpiper Adam Quinn (formerly of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band), the band is composed of 5 core members who integrate the sounds of bagpipes, guitar, double bass, didgeridoo & Scottish snare with a variety of African drums to create a unique sound.

Lucy Anderson

In 1830, Johann Nepomuk Hummel composed a "Grand Military Septet" in C major, Op. 114, for violin, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, trumpet and piano.

Ludwig Manoly

At the Vienna Conservatory, he studied double bass with Franz Simandl; harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Anton Bruckner; and conducting with Joseph Hellmesberger.

Orin O'Brien

Before joining the New York Philharmonic, O'Brien performed with the New York City Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, and the American Symphony Orchestra (under Leopold Stokowski, under whom she played the double bass solo as principal bass in the U.S. premiere of Alberto Ginastera's Variaciones Concertantes, in 1962.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren

Amor Desesperada, 4 Pieces after Pablo Neruda's 20 Poemas de amor, y una canción desesperada for soprano, baritone, koto, shakuhachi and double bass, Op. 120 (2003)

Peter James Trio

Peter James Trio, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, pianist Peter James moved to London to study jazz at the Royal Academy of music where he met his fellow band mates Thomas Hooper (drums) and Jeremy Brown (double-bass).

Raisinhill

Raisinhill (formed 2001) is an American jazz/rock trio featuring John Kasiewicz (guitar), Brian Anderson (double bass) and Jay Bond (drums).

Sandor Harmati

On 19 September 1924, at the 7th Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, the Lenox Quartet took part in the first performance of La Belle Dame sans Merci, Wallingford Riegger's setting of John Keats' poem, for two sopranos, contralto, tenor, violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe (English horn), clarinet and French horn.

Tarhu

The Tarhu was inspired by several string instruments including the Turkish Tanbur, the Erhu, the Kamancha, the North Indian Vina or Bin, the Double Bass, and the Duduk (a double-reed wind instrument).

The Brock McGuire Band

Green Grass Blue Grass featured Ricky Skaggs on mandolin, Bryan Sutton on guitar, Aubrey Haynie on fiddle, Jeff Taylor on accordion and Mark Fain on Double Bass.

The Dolphin Brothers

Additional personnel were: Phil Palmer, David Rhodes (acoustic and electric guitars); B. Heinrich-Keat (electric guitar), Clive Bell (Thai flute, khene, crumhorn); Carrie Booth (piano); Danny Thompson (double bass); Matthew Seligman, Robert Bell (bass); Martin Ditcham (percussion); Suzanne Murphy, Katie Kissoon, P.P. Arnold (backing vocals).

Tyrone Breuninger

# "Andante" (from Concerto for Double Bass) - Antonio Capuzzi