All bassist articles
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FocusDouble bass technique: Back muscles, weight, and flexibility in the right hand
How to get the most out of your body when playing the double bass, by Dan Styffe, principal bassist for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music
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NewsJazz bassist Eugene Wright dies aged 97
As part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the musician performed on more than 30 albums and tracks including Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk
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VideoIntroducing the Baroque double bass
In this video from the London-based Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, double bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer introduces the – or as she more accurately puts its, ‘a’ – Baroque double bass
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VideoMikyung Sung, double bass: Franck violin sonata
Korean double bassist Mikyung Sung performs Franck’s Violin Sonata in A major with Jaemin Shin on the piano. I. Allegretto ben moderato II. Allegro (6:19) III. Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia (14:26) IV. Allegretto poco mosso (22:21)
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NewsDouble bass broken during flight – Virgin Airlines accepts responsibility
Australian bassist Liz Frencham arrived at Melbourne airport to find the scroll snapped off the neck of her Neville Whitehead travel bass
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VideoBassiona Amorosa plays Bach Arioso
Filmed in September 2013 at the Erlöserkirche in Potsdam, this video features the double bass ensemble Bassiona Amorosa performing theArioso by J.S. Bach (arr. Klaus Trumpf). The musicians are: Artem Chirkov, Andrei Shynkevich, Roman Patkoló, Ljubinko Lazic, Giorgi Makhoshvili.
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FocusThe many basses of Barry Guy: from Gasparo da Salò to modern travel instruments
Barry Guy with his Roger Dawson travel bass (Photo ©Francesca Pfeffer) The following is an extract from a longer article in The Strad December 2017 – to read it in full, download the issue on desktop computer, via the The Strad App, or buy the print edition ...
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NewsBradetich Double Bass Competition names winner
Austrian 20-year-old Dominik Wagner takes $10,000 first prize and four-year career development deal
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FocusJeff Bradetich’s instruments: a 250-year-old Guadagnini and a modern bass made of old wood
The American double bass soloist talks about how each instrument fulfils different needs. Interview by Maggie Williams
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FocusWhat I'd tell my younger self – double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku
©Eric Richmond The following is published as part of a larger ‘Life Lessons’ interview with Chi-chi Nwanoku in The Strad’s September 2017 issue, out now – download the issue on desktop computer or via the The Strad App, or buy the print edition. My parents raised ...
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NewsSeattle Symphony double bassist Bruce Lawrence has died aged 88
The former jazz musician was the first African American to join the orchestra in 1968
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ArticleBassist designs scordatura pedals for real-time retuning
A young US double bassist and composer is developing a pedal system to allow bass players to change the pitch of strings while playing. Carter Callison, a doctoral student and Manson Composition Fellow at London's Royal Academy of Music, has raised $8,000 through crowdfunding website Kickstarter ...
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ArticleLong-serving Detroit Symphony Orchestra bassist Maxim Janowsky dies
Maxim Janowsky, who played double bass in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for 49 years, has died at the age of 70. He joined the orchestra in 1964 and played under six music directors, including Antal Doráti, Neeme Järvi and Leonard Slatkin.Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Janowsky studied at the Tanglewood Institute, ...
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ArticleFernando Grillo (1946–2013)
Fernando Grillo, the Italian double bassist, composer and teacher, has died at the age of 67. Closely associated with Italy’s avant-garde movement, he experimented with new forms of sound production and collaborated with composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Harrison Birtwistle, Iannis Xenakis and Luciano Berio. Karlheinz Stockhausen once dubbed Grillo ‘the ...