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Bertram Turetzky
Bertram Turetzky (b. February 14, 1933) is a contemporary American double bass soloist, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass (1974, 1989), a book that looked at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass including featuring it as a solo performance vehicle with no other instrumental accompaniment. Turetzky has performed and recorded more than 300 pieces written by and for him. He is a composer whose music has achieved some prominence, as have his interpretations of early music and composers like Domenico Dragonetti. Music critic Michael Steinberg has praised his continuo playing
Mark Dresser: Tines of Change
by Jeff Schwartz
Since his arrival as a member of Anthony Braxton's mid-1980s quartet, Mark Dresser has been expanding the sonic palette of the upright bass. Like Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, and Joëlle Léandre before him, Dresser drew from both the classical avant-garde of players such as Bertram Turetzky and Fernando Grillo and the more intuitive improvisational approaches of ...
Damon Smith, Peter Kowald, Joëlle Léandre & Bertram Turetzky: Bass Duos 2000-2007
by Jeff Schwartz
One function of recordings is to document a performer's development. Damon Smith's Bass Duos 2000-2007 not only captures his artistic and technical evolution, his choice of duet partners represents the expanded options for the bass in creative music since the 1960s. Two of the three discs in this set were previously released, but ...
Bass Duos 2000-2007
Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Broken Mirrors April 28th 1; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Broken
Mirrors April 28th 2; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 1; Peter Kowald &
Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 2; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th
3; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 4; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith
Reflections on April 28th 5; Peter Kowald & Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 6; Peter Kowald
& Damon Smith Reflections on April 28th 7; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Throw off the Husk;
Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Ancestor & the Future; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Lost & Lucid;
Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Time Dries Up (DS solo); Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Mirrors
Without Dust; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Uweaving the Threads (JL solo); Joëlle Léandre &
Damon Smith Listening to the Same Blood; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Hive of Instants (DS
solo); Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Building our Erosions; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith
Flowers Without Venom; Joëlle Léandre & Damon Smith Unfingers its Grasp; Joëlle Léandre &
Damon Smith Sky Without Birds; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Vulturegrip; Bertram Turetzky
& Damon Smith Coalmarked; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Chalkravine; Bertram Turetzky &
Damon Smith Woodsong; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Slickensides; Bertram Turetzky &
Damon Smith Southbright; Bertram Turetzky & Damon Smith Northtrue.
Keith Humble / Bert Turetzky: Kinetic Conversations
by Robert Bush
This long-dormant recording by the late Australian composer/pianist Keith Humble and legendary contrabass virtuoso Bertram Turetzky is finally available as Kinetic Conversations a searing document recorded in Mandeville Auditorium at the University of California, San Diego, on March 19, 1986. The quality, both in terms of fidelity and performance values, is sterling ...
Alex Weiss: Fighter Planes & Praying Mantis
by Eyal Hareuveni
Saxophonist Alex Ward's musical journey so far reflects his restful musical personality. He studied music in Boston, then relocated to San Francisco where he studied with Roberto DeHaven, the minister and musician of Saint John's Orthodox Church, better known as the John Coltrane Church. In the Bay Area he collaborated with innovative improvisers as saxophonist Glenn ...
Alvin Fielder / David Dove / Jason Jackson / Damon Smith: From-To-From
by Eyal Hareuveni
This quartet represents a meeting of generations and their approaches to jazz and improvised music. The quartet resembles such early free jazz units as the New York Art Quartet or the Archie Shepp--Roswell Rudd Quartet. Veteran drummer Alvin Fielder--the eldest member, with an encyclopedic knowledge of modern jazz drumming--is known for his extensive collaborations with saxophonist ...
Bertram Turetzky: Contrabass Pioneer
by Robert Bush
Contrabassist Bertram Turetzky's career is nothing short of extraordinary. He almost single handedly redefined the role of the bass in 20th Century classical music, from one of back row support to that of featured and celebrated soloist. Even within the confines of classical music, Turetzky's range is huge: he is a master of early, pre- Bach ...