On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:15:43PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote : > > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:01 +1000, Loki Davison wrote: > > Hi all, > > I recently bought a double bass and am loving it. Fun to play and > > amazing sound with fingers and bow. I will be looking for a teacher > > soon but first and foremost i'm looking for some good stuff to listen > > too! I'm really enjoying Willie Dixons stuff and a few tracks by > > Freundeskries (german hiphop) and Donovan. What else is good? I'd love > > to here tracks in a range of style both bow and fingers. > > Eberhard Weber. > > he actually plays a modified electric (but upright) bass, but still > worth listening to. for an introduction to the possibilities, check out > "Pendulum" or "The Colors of Morning". Pendulum is all solo, but > multi-tracked. > > also Miroslav Vitous on ECM. on other labels he often played electric > bass guitar, but on ECM there's some gorgeous work on acoustic. > > the bass player from Oregon can also be pretty inspirational, though he > sometimes fades away into the background. Oregon is sometimes pretty cool. But the sound's not always on top. You've got to hear to Renaud Garcia-Fons. This man is totally awesome, one of the best double-bass player, if you ask me. I don't want to describe his music, as it could seem a bit boring or pretentious, but, actually, it's very BEAUTIFUL (there's no other word) and virtuous! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXt6htVi3C4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRq9VWuhiqk (I haven't seen those videos, as I'm under Linux 64bits, and flash doesn't exist for me, and I don't want to make some wrapper things) In a very other way, Trevor Dunn (my teacher)'s Trio Convulsant, which lies somewhere between bop and punk (not in the way of punk jazz, though!) is seomthing I like very much! > > and of course Ron Carter, who despite his ability to play electric bass > guitar with the best of the (well, almost), always insisted that > acoustic double bass had a quality that could never be replicated. Sure, Ron Carter is great. Seems to be a bit worse than he was, though. -- ============================== ORL /// AMMD Booking (www.ammd.net) ° Sebkha-Chott (www.sebkhachott.net - Ohreland [FR]) - next touring period: 04-06/2008 ° Unexpect (www.unexpect.com - Montréal [CA]) - Europe tour w/ Sebkha-Chott period: 09-12/2008 ° La Muette (www.myspace.com/muette - Paris [FR]) - next touring period: 05/2008 (Bretagne) ° Mel-P (www.mel-p.net - Le Mans [FR]) - next touring period: 09/2008 Phone: +33 (0)2 43 52 15 77 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
