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Jun 21, 2014 58 min

Spotlight Double Bass

from Relevant Tones Hosted by Access Contemporary Music

Thanks to virtuoso performers like Gary Karr, François Rabbath and Edgar Meyer, the double bass is leaping to the front of the concert stage and composers are taking note. This week we’ll listen to some of the music written in the last few decades for this sonorous and incredibly versatile instrument. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarter Adam Ben Ezra: Can’t Stop Running (excerpt) Adam Ben Ezra, bass Frank Proto: Four Rogues, No. 1, Calm John Ebinger, bass; Roy Hakes, piano Dave Anderson: Duets II- Parade of the Pigs V- Lament Dave Anderson & Hal Robinson, double basses Gunther Schuller: Quartet for Double Basses, II Robert Gladstone, Frederick Zimmerman, Orin O’Brien & Alvin Brehm, basses Patrick Neher: Grig’s Dance Patrick Neher, bass; Mark Rush, violin Tom Johnson: Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass Robert Black, bass & narrator George Pearle: Monody II Robert Black, bass Edgar Meyer: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, I St. Paul Chamber Orchestra/Wolff; Meyer, bass Manuel Enriquez: Mobil II Bertram Turetzky, bass Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (excerpt) Superbass (Ray Brown, John Clayton, Christian McBride, basses)

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