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)