On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:21:16AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote : > Loki Davison wrote: > > 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. > Scott LaFaro > Ron Carter > Jimmy Garrison > Oscar Pettiford > Charles Mingus Yeah, Charles Mingues is awesome! Gunslinging Bird is one of my favourite jazz big band albums (he's not playing on it, though). > Ray Brown > Tommy Potter > > Bertram Turetzky > Gary Karr > > The first group lists primarily jazz giants, the next two fellows are > classical greats. > > If you like Willie Dixon's work you should check out the Muddy Waters > recordings with Big Crawford. > > I'd throw in Jaco Pastorius and Billy Sheehan, even though they were/are > mainly electric players. ??? Did they play Double-Bass at any time? By the way, I won't put both of them one next to the other!!! > > Best, > > dp > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- ============================== 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
