double bass Archive
Alexander Claffy – Standards: What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? – SMK Jazz
Double bassist releases an elegant album of jazz standards.
Peter Brendler, doublebass – Message in Motion – Positone
Peter Brendler, doublebass – Message in Motion – Positone PR8156, 56:39 (7/15/16) ****: The bass leads the way. (Peter Brendler – doublebass/ Rich Perry – tenor sax /Peter Evans – trumpet /Vinnie Sperrazza – drums /Ben Monder – guitar) It is easy to overlook the bass in a jazz ensemble. It is the least noisy and attention-grabbing instrument. However, its importance can hardly be overstated. As always when I discover a new bassist, I listen in on my Sennheiser 600 headphones with rapt attention to the footfalls of the walking bass, which are a sure path through the music. The quarter-notes are a way of finding the complexities of the harmony. I like to think of the bass – especially in the absence of a chordal instrument– as the brains of the ensemble which thus thinks from the bottom up. A superior bassist exemplifies Henry David Thoreau’s dictum that “walking is a kind of thinking.” As long as the bass stays on the trail, one cannot get too lost. The CD under review here “Message in Motion” offers a good example of ‘basic’ virtues. The leader of the group, Baltimore-based Peter Brendler, was unknown to me before this debut recording […]
“The First Beauty” Music by KLEIN, KYANDAL, YUN and AM – Oslo Kammerakademi/ David Friedemann Strunck – LAWO Classics
“The First Beauty” Music by KLEIN, KYANDAL, YUN and AM – Oslo Kammerakademi/ David Friedemann Strunck – LAWO Classics multichannel SACD LWC 1093, 1:15:01 (3/4/16) 1:15:01 [Distr. by Naxos] ***1/2: Seldom heard contemporary wind music nicely played and recorded. This new SACD from LAWO Classics is a collection of contemporary wind music played by the Oslo Kammerakademi, a new ensemble with some of Scandinavia’s leading wind soloists. The Oslo Philharmonic’s solo oboist David Friedemann Strunck is the initiator and artistic director of the ensemble. The ensemble is unique in Scandinavia because it plays chamber music for wind instruments with the classical harmony music instrumentation as a basis, where the ensemble uses historical brass instruments of the baroque, classical and romantic repertoire to give the sound both authenticity and transparency. The ensemble had its debut in Oslo in December 2009. The disc contains four 20th-century works, including music by Gideon Klein (1919-1945), Johan Vandal (1919-1999), Isang Yun (1917-1995), and Magnar Äm (b 1952) While all the compositions on the disc are interesting, and all are well played, I thought the highlight work was the most recently composed – the first beauty for Wind Octet and Double Bass by Magnar Äm. Written […]
Bill Evans – The Complete Fantasy Recordings – Fantasy (9 CDs)
The final years of a true jazz icon are captured in this nine-CD box set.
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Petros Klampanis – Minor Dispute [TrackList follows] – Inner Circle
Honesty is the best policy.
“GEORG CHRISTOPH WAGENSEIL: Six Quartets for Low Strings” = Sonata No. 3 in C Major, “Suite des pieces”; Sonata No. 2; Sonata No. 4; Sonata No. 6; Sonata No. 5; Sonata No. 1 – Piccolo Concerto Wien – Accent (2 CDs)
Elegant music that straddles a stylistic fence between the pre-Classical and Classical eras.
Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels – Duke at the Roadhouse – IPOGeorge Shearing at Home – JazzKnight Records
Two CDs featuring top pianists in a more chamber music setting.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
