Spotlight Double Bass

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)