Norwegian Tord Gustavsen, a very different hitmaker in his homeland for barely-struck acoustic music of tiny, trickling motifs, softly-brushed cymbals, quietly humming double-bass parts, then played to an awed, church-like atmosphere, to which his Jan Garbarek-like saxophonist Tore Brunborg was flawlessly attuned. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Portico Quartet found the young audience that put them on the 2008 Mercury prize shortlist through the unique sound they invented as buskers – hooky and danceable systems music coloured by the melodic chime of the tuned hang drum, with jazzy textures furnished by a double-bass and a sax. ❋ Unknown (2012)
At the album's outset, Led Bib sound like a heavy-metal guitar group Toby McLaren's keys mimicking the missing guitar, but there's plenty of free jazz edginess, with brusque improv horn motifs giving way to electronic hoots and some bluesy double-bass that recalls the gravitas of Charles Mingus. ❋ Unknown (2011)
When the veteran period-instrument ensemble the English Concert dug into Vivaldi's "La Follia" Trio Sonata at its Library of Congress program Thursday, this customarily elegant group seemed to be channeling the brasher, more risk-taking approach of many Italian period-instrument bands, with boisterous attacks, daringly elastic phrasing, extravagant ornamentation and even some drumming on the double-bass. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)
Has a kick-ass, Tama double-bass drum kit set up in her soundproof garage and has a keen ear. ❋ F. J. Lennon (2011)
El Cigala made his debut as a producer on his label with the launch of albums by New York trumpet player Jerry González, Spanish guitar player Diego del Morao and Cuban double-bass player Yelsy Heredia. ❋ Javier Espinoza (2011)
CONCERT: FRANCOIS RABBATH, a performance by the double-bass player, accompanied by his son, Sylvain, on piano. 8 p.m., ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, the Young Adam soundtrack shows another side of him, a dreamy, moody, Lynch-esque soundtrack based on violins and double-bass that suggests a different, better film when heard separately. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But this music, which was premiered at the 2007 Manchester jazz festival and is a 12-part suite for orchestra and the solo double-bass of the legendary Danny Thompson, has a character all of its own. ❋ John Fordham (2010)
Tellingly, there's a track of subtle electronics and deep arco sounds called Eicher after the boss of the ECM label, whose more ambient output has strong connections with this music, and on the brief Victoria, Thompson's thundering, plunging lines celebrate his own double-bass of the same name. ❋ John Fordham (2010)
On this long-postponed follow-up, a familiar ECM fragility opens the show, with softly splashed notes gently prodded by the double-bass into Jarrett-reminiscent folk song resolutions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Kevin Jablonski played the double-bass Figment III with easygoing aplomb, its rhetoric similar to "Statement" with the dialiectic addition of the profound timbral contrast between the instrument's high and low. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
Today on BoingBoing Gadgets, we reviewed a 3G USB modem that works great on Macs and high-end canine gear; listened to The Harmonium; drank a strictly-conforming European pint; watched Belkin try to bring novelty to the world of mouse pads; built an ornithopter and a difference engine; guzzled yoghurt with a specially-shaped spoon; and listened to a beautiful boombox in a double-bass fiddle. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Only four members of the quintet - the two violinists, the violist and the cellist - had this particular hurdle to deal with; Louis Levitt, the ensemble's double-bass player, used his own instrument, since there is no double bass in the library's Stradivarius collection - for the simple reason that Stradivari is not thought to have made any. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)
Then black columns of smoke rose from the factory chimneys into the clean air, and then hooters blew, long and low, like the first heavy stroke of the bow against the double-bass of the day, throwing into the air watery grey spirals of steam. ❋ Eric Dickens (2009)
She & Apparat really beef up minimal techno w/double-bass samples, twisted guitar samples and even turntable scratches. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One knee moves pistonlike; her foot beats out a double-bass rhythm. ❋ Unknown (2008)
