Bass Band Gig

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

Bassed on Jazz will be performing for ?People in the Plazas Concert Series? on Thursday, August 1, 2002. The performance will be at 333 Market Street at Fremont in San Francisco and will begin at 12-noon to 1 p.m. This concert is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Market Street Association and the Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund administered by Musician?s Union Local 6 in San Francisco.
 
Bassed on Jazz is a group consisting of three basses and drums. Not only is the instrumentation of the group unique but also are the arrangements of jazz and bop standards created by the group.
 
Bassed on Jazz is:
Wally Malone ? Alembic Orion Six-String Bass
Bill Noertker ? Fretless Electric Bass
Kurt Ribak ? Double Bass
Steve Pefley - Drums
 
If anyone from the club makes it, please come up and introduce yourself.
 
Wally

[mica]

Sorry I missed the show, Wally. I found this picture from the last time I saw you all together. Remember this one?
 

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

Mica, I've got to check back here more often. My schedule has been hectic lately, five bands and my day gig.
 
Wally

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

Bassed on Jazz will be performing at ?Tapestry in Talent, Festival of the Arts? on Saturday, August 31, 2002. The performance will be at the Center for the Performing Arts at Almaden & Park in San Jose and will begin at 4:30 p.m. This concert is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the South Bay Guitar Society and the Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund administered by Musician?s Union Local 153 in San Jose.
 
Bassed on Jazz is a group consisting of three basses and drums. Not only is the instrumentation of the group unique but also are the arrangements of jazz and bop standards created by the group.
 
Bassed on Jazz is:
Wally Malone ? Six-String Bass
Bill Noertker ? Fretless Electric Bass
Kurt Ribak ? Double Bass
Steve Pefley ? Drums

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Hi Wally,
 
yes that seems something and really original. We in Belgium have The Monnaie Bass Quartet. It's a quartet of 4 Double Bass players, highly trained and original from the Monnaie orchestra (national opera). It's more usual than what you do but they also have great original arrangements going from folk over Jazz to classical tunes.
Simply amazing!
I hope to hear you guys plying once.
 
Paul

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

Paul, I've seen other bass quartets that are made up of symphonic musicians using four string basses. What's nice about our band is the different voices created by using the different basses. Kurt plays string bass, Bill plays a frettless Fender Jazz and of course I play my six-string Alembic.

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

After re-reading the above the first sentence means four players with string basses not basses with four strings.
 
Wally

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Hi Wally,
 
I understand. In  fact: you consider the three types of bass as 3 different instruments (what they are in my feel).
By the way: you don't have any recording of something you play that you can send me in a MP3 format? My business e-mail is on the club profile board.
CU
 
Paul

[Wally Malone (wally_malone)]

Paul, No recordings yet. This time of the year we're all into our other projects. We'll start early next year getting ready for the festival season. Maybe then we'll work on a recording.
 
Wally