Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 2004/09

From: Bob Davenport <bob@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Bass guitar
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:14:33 -0400

>Bob Davenport wrote:
>
>> Maybe you and your daughter should try
>> recordings by the trio of Jimmy Giuffre (clarinet +
>> saxes), Steve Swallow (elec. bass) and Paul Bley
>> (piano) - e.g. Diary of a Trio: Saturday (Owl 059)
>> and Diary of a Trio: Sunday (Owl 060) - then start
>> looking for a piano player.
>
>This recommendation certainly gets to the heart of the issue because the
>bass isn't buried underneath the sound of a full band.

In which case maybe I'd better point out (a) that the trio's CDs on ECM
('1961') and Columbia ('Free Fall'), which may be more widely available,
date from a time before Swallow switched from upright bass to bass guitar
and (b) that I've just realized that Bley's name appears first on the Owl
CDs (which feature various combinations of the three musicians, not all
inc. bass, and are fairly cerebral stuff). Swallow also plays bass guitar
on several CDs by Carla Bley (piano/orch.), inc. the duet albums 'Duets'
(Watt/20), 'Go Together' (Watt/24) and 'Are We There Yet?' (Watt/29).

Bob

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