Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein remains one of the most irrepressible creative minds of the past century. He was awarded twenty-three Grammy Awards, ten Emmy Awards, and twenty-two honorary degrees. For Bernstein, his life and his work, his art and his political convictions, coexisted inseparably within the vast container of his unrelenting idealism.
Arriving in the form of the triple single coil-equipped AZES31 and HSS-loaded AZES40, Ibanez’s latest offerings aim to bring tone, versatility and playability to beginner and intermediate players.
This Marleaux classic is like the other. The customer can choose from countless exotic woods and different construction techniques to define the look and sound of this bass. All components are specially manufactured to the highest quality craftsmanship which guarantees perfect playability and multi-faceted sound. The bass, mids, and highs are balanced and well-defined in every position of the fretboard with lots of sustain.
Roy Smeck probably could have played a barbed-wire fence. That’s how good he was. If it had strings—steel or gut—well, that was enough. Smeck was one of the 20th century’s first superstars. He began his career in the early 1920s on the U.S. vaudeville circuit. In a few years, Smeck went from making $20 a week working in a music store to making $1,250 a week touring!
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Over nine million subscribers tune in to Davide Biale, known to all as Davie504, on YouTube. He’s a phenomenal bass player, with a sharp sense of humor that gives his videos an edge. In a rare interview, he tells us about his life before the internet came calling.
"Ground" is an electrical concept that indicates a reference point from which all voltage potentials in a circuit are measured. Ground serves as voltage-zero for a circuit, and when drawn on a schematic, is a platonic ideal that pins everything connected to it at that zero potential, whether it's sinking 1 mA or 1000 A. The real world is not as kind.
Thick, spatial and multidimensional it sounded great in mono and otherworldly in stereo through two guitar amps. In addition to being the first in a line of legendary chorus pedals, and an inspiration for countless others from rival manufacturers, the CE-1 is often said to be the first effect to use a bucket-brigade device (BBD) in its circuit. This might seem dubious when you note that the BBD-loaded Electro-Harmonix Memory Man was also released in 1976, but it takes on more validity when you consider that the CE-1’s circuit was contained in the JC-120 and JC-60 amps prior to the pedal’s arrival.
Steve Swallow placed first (electric bass) in the Downbeat International Critics Poll since 1983, and in the Downbeat Readers Poll since 1985, until the late twenty aughts, when he was overtaken by younger, fleeter players. He also won the Jazz Times Poll (electric bass) for several years, and has been voted the Jazz Journalists Association’s electric bassist of the year since 2001, when that category was instituted. He lives now in contented isolation with Carla Bley, in the mountains of upstate New York.