Italian composer Sylvano Bussotti, whose composing career spans from the 1930s to the first decade of the 21st century, wrote a solo work for bass in 1983 entitled Naked Angel Face per contrabbasso.

Terry Plumeri furthered the development of arco ( bowed ) solos, achieving horn-like technical freedom and a clear, vocal bowed tone, while Charlie Haden, best known for his work with Ornette Coleman, defined the role of the bass in Free Jazz.

Many bass players find extra work by substituting (" subbing ") for bassists who are double-booked or ill.

It is hard for bass players to be able to find full-time, full-year work at a single job.

Teaching work for double bassist includes giving private lessons in the home or at colleges and universities ; coaching bass players who are preparing for recordings or auditions ; doing group coaching at music camps or for youth ensembles ; and working as a high school music teacher.

Zorn later formed the Painkiller project with ambient dub producer Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums, which also collaborated with Justin Broadrick on some work.

In 1976, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood & his Wild Romance, ( and started work with photographer Anton Corbijn ) initially with Ferdi Karmelk ( guitar ), Gerrit Veen ( bass ), Peter Walrecht ( drums ), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters ( vocals ).

Moon was known for dramatic, suspenseful drumming — often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms, ambidextrous double bass drum work and wild cymbal crashes and washes.

* Mattheus passie ( 1976 ) ( text by Louis Ferron ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 2 oboes ( both + English horn ), Hammond organ, string quartet, double bass

* Orpheus ( 1977 ) ( text by Lodewijk de Boer ) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, lyricon, electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion

Music theatre work for soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 amplified mixed voices, amplified orchestra ( 15 winds, 13 brass, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos + electric piano, off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar.

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

His early tracks are somewhat ambient, but already feature the rhythm pattern of his seminal 1997 work Modus Operandi, which embodies most of his mid-nineties style: atmospheric, but at the same time very cold and paranoid, consisting mostly of jazz-influenced, highly complex drum patterns and sequenced double bass lines, sometimes with minimalistic synth melodies on top.

Prior to his work on the saxophone, Sax made several improvements to the bass clarinet by improving its keywork and acoustics and extending its lower range.

The new group has deepened the work of Don Salvador in the double mixture of the bar with the Brazilian samba funk of the American Quaternary, based on the dynamics of implementation, driven by drums and bass.

Most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent ( aka rhythm section ) that may also include, keyboard ( a percussion instrument ) and / or guitar, auxiliary percussion ( often of non western origin ) and bass ( bass viol or electric ).

He had begun work on music for a film, Adventures of Don Quixote ( 1933 ) from Miguel de Cervantes's celebrated novel, featuring the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and directed by G. W. Pabst.

This is the only canon where two manuals are specified ( not due to hand-crossing difficulties ), and the only pure canon of the work, because it does not have a bass line.

This late contrapuntal work consists of fourteen canons built on the first eight bass notes from the aria of the Goldberg variations.

Described by engineer Earle Mankey as a " frighteningly accurate album " and " sort of like Eraserhead " in comparison to Wilson's lush 1960s oeuvre, the album's playful lyrics ( alternately invoking Johnny Carson, Phil Spector and adolescent interests ) and stark instrumentation ( featuring Moog bass lines and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns reflective of contemporaneous work by David Bowie and Tony Visconti ) failed to impact an audience sated on the ubiquitous Endless Summer sound.

The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of 2 flutes ( one doubling piccolo ), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in F, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum, triangle, bass drum, cymbals, organ ( ad lib ) and strings.

Chandler has been the bass guitar player for Daniel Amos for many years, pre-dating his work with The Choir.

Meredith's voice was always deep, with rough bass notes in it ; ;

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

It would not have occurred to her that it was curious for a female to sing bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo, soprano and coloratura as she pleased.

The dreadnought style was designed by Martin Guitars to produce a deeper sound than " classic "- style guitars, with very present bass fundamentals.

When I say ' UK bass ', it's what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that.

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).

As his bass player Debby Hastings said: he was the rock that the roll was built on.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

The Alberti bass was used by many later composers, and it became an important element in much keyboard music of the Classical music era.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar.

The line-up was completed by Tony and Hunt Sales, whom Bowie had known since the late 1970s for their contribution, on drums and bass respectively, to Iggy Pop's 1977 album Lust For Life.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

The history of the double bass is tightly coupled to the development of string technology, as it was the advent of overwound gut strings, which first rendered the instrument more generally practicable, as wound strings attain low notes within a smaller overall string diameter than unwound strings.

The earliest known concerto for double bass was written by Joseph Haydn ca. 1763, and is presumed lost in a fire at the Eisenstadt library.

The use of only the top three strings was popular for bass soloists and Principal bassists in orchestras in the 19th century, because it reduced the pressure on the wooden top of the bass, which was thought to create a more resonant sound.

In the 19th century, the opera conductor, composer, and bassist Giovanni Bottesini was considered the " Paganini of the double bass " of his time.