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Upright: Opinion
by John Kelman
After a seven year hiatus, bassist Eric Martin has reconvened the Montreal progressive jazz outfit Upright and released Opinion , an album that owes more to the European progressive community than it does to more traditional American influences. The result is a recording that, with its electric approach, skirts the edges of fusion but, with less reliance on overt displays of technical prowess and a greater concern for compositional development, manages to avoid its more excessive trappings.
While the influence ...
read moreLunapark - Upright Acoustic new CD
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All About Jazz
Lunapark combines acoustic jazz and electronic soundscapes with formal and harmonic structures of European music. The band manages to be unplugged and plugged-in at the same time thanks to resourceful flutist Sascha Otto and guest contributor Leon Gruenbaum, a New York based electronic musician and sound inventor. All compositions on the new album are by bassist/leader Gerhard Graml. Following Graml’s involvement in various recording projects, world music, jazz standards and contemporary orchestral music among them, “Upright Acoustic” is the third ...
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Bass Management: Taming the Wild Upright Bass
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All About Jazz
Recording Technics These days, the upright bass is not just used in jazz, classical, rockabilly, and country music.
It's everywhere from roots rock to hipster lounge to salsa. It's also known by many names: double bass, contrabass, bass violin, bass fiddle, string bass, and, thanks to some Wikipedia research, bull fiddle. Whatever it's called, however, you'll likely be recording this beast someday, and here are some tips for capturing the instrument's ballsy tones.
First Steps The ...
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