Article: Double bass means double jazz fun.(Entertainment)

Article: Double bass passion
The Press;  November 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Around the world, the double bass is undergoing a renaissance. ANNA ... Stephen is passionate about the double bass. The large, full-bodied instrument ... instruments for 15 years but making the double bass for the past four years. He says ...

Article: Double bass hits
Strings;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... literature in English on the history of the double bass has, until now, been sparse and filled ... Paul Brun's A New History of the Double Bass (Paul Brun Productions, 1 chemin de ... his previous work, A History of the Double Bass (published in 1989). His "new ...

Article: Double bass virtuoso composes stellar career
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  April 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... concerts centered on a world-class double bass virtuoso. It will definitely be the ... Compared to the famously daunting double bass as a showy solo instrument, pianos ... there just haven't been enough double bass virtuosos at large to chronicle. Meyer ...

Article: You'll never seduce anyone with a double bass
The Independent - London;  August 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the problem. No one is learning the double bass. Along with the trombone and the bassoon ... out at you and starts saying that the double bass is quite a nice instrument, really ... I can tell you this; taking up the double bass is no kind of way to increase the sum ...

Article: Champion of the double bass
Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL);  February 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... immediately clear that he's a master of the double bass, the largest of the orchestral string ... performer," she said, noting that the double bass is rarely heard solo, functioning more ... score. But Zhang shows how eloquent the double bass, which has a three-octave range ...

Article: Double bass line rally
The Scotsman;  March 12, 1999 ;     690 words ...HOW many great double bass concertos can you think of? No ... Holloway had been thinking of writing a double bass concerto long before the joint commission ... instruments - the viola, the harp, the double bass - and for a long time I've thought ...

Article: CORIN LONG ; High-spirited double-bass player
The Independent - London;  June 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Corin Long, principal double-bass of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ... making in Britain. His influence as a double-bass player, teacher and coach was far ... s Lynn in 1966, Long took up the double-bass aged eight and even in his early years ...