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...For the most part, unless Mateusz Malcharek is bottoming out the sound on double-bass, that is it. And yet, there is drama to be found....
...line on “Bodies”, with Jones playing both bass and guitar on most of the other tracks....
...Musow Danse, with the exception of that likembé on the opening title track and guitar from Tommy de Bourbon accompanying Mamani Keita’s lament for orphans on “Espérance”, all the music is Lee’s — drums, bass...
...Like its God-fearing, justice-meting title character, played by a commanding David Oyelowo, the show is reliable, straight-faced and solemn....
...Unusually, their backing band consisted of three middle-class white rock musicians, Ronnie Robot (bass), Neil Cloud (drums) and Trevor Rabin (guitar)....
...were told it’s good to obey . . . ” As the trumpets bray like hunting horns, the song falls into the sing-song cadences of a demented nursery rhyme before Nadya Samodurova’s drums and Anna Moskvitina’s bass...
...The song takes a boat out on to the water, presumably into the Hardangerfjord, at first with a scattering of kantele shining like starlight, then with a gentle pulse of bass from Mats Eilertsen....
...They opened with the distinctively curved notes of David Gilmour’s guitar-playing....
...But the band, with two bass guitars, three singers (in their Womad configuration, at least), keyboard bleeps and interjections and relentless kit drums, were anything but austere....
...His bass unspools at fidgety double-speed on “Ntuthwane” — “machine gun”, someone shouts approvingly in the background....
...The half-century dates back to November 1973 in Seattle, when violinist David Harrington put together the first foursome....
...Thake put her imprint on the concerts (at David Geffen Hall) by coming onstage beforehand and leading the audience in taking a deep breath and then giving thanks to teachers, artists and neighbours....
...The title track, composed by the leader’s late father, violinist John Blake, switches from edgy counterpoint to urgent walking bass swing....
...Meanwhile, Fripp played sharply animated solos and, a lump-in-throat moment, reprised his celebrated guitar part in David Bowie’s “Heroes”....
...Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has led multiple Wagners at El Real; the cast includes Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and South Korean bass Jongmin Park....
...He has collaborated with several groups, from the Silk Road Ensemble to the New York string quartet Brooklyn Rider, but his most striking work has been duets, notably with the bass santour player Ali Bahrami...
...As a 14-year-old, Tavares taught himself to create animations of “little characters that would get into fights”, set to drum and bass music....
...It’s an underwater metropolis of trevally, red bass, sweetlip, reef shark, bonefish, maori wrasse, rabbitfish and turtles....
...The singing is foregrounded and the instrumentation is composed largely of Maal’s guitar, bass ngoni from Barou Sall and percussion, both synthesised from Karlberg and real from Mamadou Sarr....
...John Entwistle was inventing and reinventing the bass guitar all the time until he turned it into a lead guitar....
...February 2 to 18; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Don Pasquale’, New National Theatre, Tokyo Director Stefano Vizioli’s production of Donizetti’s delightful opera buffa, with Italian bass...
...“That moment in 1972, when David Bowie played ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops – it affected an entire generation of kids.”...
...“Méndémélé” is the most leisurely work song imaginable, gentle scatted exhortations over swinging acoustic bass and modest piano....
...The quartet were stationed behind four upright bass drums positioned at each corner of the balcony and armed with mallets....
...The Metropolitan Opera has had several notable productions of Die Zauberflöte, including one by David Hockney and the most recent from Julie Taymor, a 20-year success....
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