Contrabass Conversations #30 – Guy Tuneh interview
This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with double bassist Guy Tuneh, conducted over a distance of thousands of miles. It was a real pleasure to get to sit down and chat with Guy–he’s a warm, intelligent, and passionate individual, and these traits come through in his speaking just like they do in his bass playing. You can visit him online at www.guytuneh.com. You will also get a chance to hear the great jazz bassist Lonnie Plaxico perform two tunes on this episode, and you can check out Lonnie at www.lonnieplaxico.com. Enjoy!
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Release Date: 7/22/07
Length: 38:37
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Plaxico’s recording and performance catalog is equally impressive for its caliber, depth and diversity. He has appeared with such luminaries as Sonny Sitt, Junior Cook, David Murray, Alice Coltrane,
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Mr. Tuneh is real Artist!
i was realy amaized from his words.
a big person!!
great!!!
finaly a bass player who can be there (in front) like the other
string soloists.
go on guy, you got my heart!
He is great!!!
Jason, its the interview that i ever heard!!!
guy gave me so much power to go on.
Jason;
this interview should be in every
place in the internet,where U can
find there people who have to do with Art!!!
thank you very much, U helped us.
Mr. Tuneh is a charming person!!
Mr. Tuneh is one of the great bass players of our time.
would be nice to meet him!!
Jason, i would like to have a picture of tuneh with bass in his hands,can U help me?
Just imagine his philosophy
in every profi. classical orchestra.
it would be fantastic.(& not to thing about money !!)
good to know that they are some real artists out there!
thank you very much Jason,You made me happy.
Wowww
Mr.Tuneh sounds like someone who started his way alone.did along way until what he is today.
amazing , real hearo.
finaly!!, bass player who can tech
other string/musions how to play.(with his philosophy & his amazing tech.)
great Gary Karr,Ovidiu Badila,….
and now:
great Guy Tuneh.
Amazing !!!!
i have never seen a person that only from his words i start to play
better!!!
i try to understand Maestro Tunehs
words and his way of thinking &
its crazy…(!!)
i start to change my playing.
to play in other way…
he is amazing talent, born to be
proffesor or somthing like this.
imagine: to take an hour with him…
i dont get it, simply amazing.
It looks(sounds)to me, that Mr.Tuneh is the next Great soloist of our time!
good to know that this time its going to be Bassplayer.
Jason, you still dont know that you did, in this that you put him in your show.
Bravo,Go on !!
Jason you are doing good job with your blog.
it’s so importent that you post that interview with Maesrto Tuneh,
i could take alot from his philosophy and amazing way of playing bass.
great.!
T h a n k s .
Mann, Mr. Tuneh has amazing power in his words!so high level of energy…..
woww,i like it when people are giving so much on stage.
its like he lives for the stage & his fans.
a real virtuoso..!
i have allready seen great bass player (in solo)some of them are part of the best orchestras in world.
Mr. Tuneh is more then one level above all of them.
he is an artist,he is not playing to make because of money.
so this is why he sounds like he is!!!
I’d like to know,if some one understand how Mr.Tuneh uses his bow.(he is using it in other way..)
if someone can answer me it would be nice.
Jason can You ask Mr.Tuneh??
thanks
i would like to hear the rest of the interview with Maestro Tuneh.
please post it as soon as posible.
Hi J.
Can You ask Mr.Tuneh about Snakewood bows,because i’d like to buy one.
I’d like to know what does he think about it?,if he can say what is importent in this kind of bow.
I know Guy Tuneh, he dont like that people name him Artist,or Maestro,etc… .
from this interview, i gut to hear from him very importent things.
(like every time that say something).
it was pleasure to listen to his golden words.ones again he,showes
how great he is.
Tuneh is an amazing bassist,after you hear him live,you will change the way you look at bass players.
On one like him,
On one !!
I was at that live concert,that Tuneh played the Rossini with M.Meyer (the one in Youtube).
in the video its amazing how they play this peace, if you would be there, you will never forget it.
live has other power than the video.people you have to see tuneh live in concert, he is getting another person!, charming,fantastic
its pleasure to see & to listen to him.
ha ha ha….
you all bass players….
if not Tuneh, you where all be so slow & not intresting.
cool, nice guy This Guy.
there is a chance that i would start to like that instrument.
i just heard the interview with Guy Tuneh.i got a new way to see the violin playing, my Teacher speaks about the notes & tempo(no power for this way anymore).
i start to like what i am doing…
thank you Jason, for posting that interview with Maestro tuneh,you helped me so much.
(there is achance that i will not stop to play the violin-because of that interview)
What a Guy!
Mr. Tuneh is a charming bass i dont think that it can be learned his way of playing.
When i start to think about Mr. Tuneh’s points, i find my self in a new dimension of playing.
hard to understand & but can help me to be a better player.
What an amazing Preformer!!
I am playing in orchestra for long time.
Mr. Tuneh’s words are gold, he speaks about things above.
we, the normal musions see the things in very simple way.this is why he is a great musion & fantastic bass player.the way that he looks at the world is one of a kind.
i think that my orchestra,would love to take Mr.Tuneh to be one of us.
great person, that we can only learn from him!
Jason i like how you do the things
go on!
great player & person!
Maestro Tuneh,
show us how you play Dittersdorf
concert?
Jason,how about virtual lessen with Maestro Tuneh?
What a great Artist !!
Woww
i saw his Sonnambula in “YouTube”…
this Guy is crazy.. , AMAZING!!
Bravooo!! out of this world!
How How…
What a bass player, pleasure for the ears & the eyes!
encouraging to work on.
One of the most fantastic players i have ever seen!!
Phänomen Tuneh !
Mr. Tuneh is amazing!
What a bass player!!!
Real Maestro!!
We saw Mr.Tuneh with Maestro Barenboim , they are amazing!!
all the orchestra was cool.
two amazing artists on one stage.
Wowwwww…!!
Mr. Tuneh gave a great show as an orchestra bassist in Madrid,
under Barenboim & the orchestra
Bravoooo……..
Maestro Barenboim &b Maestro Tuneh,
what an amazing evening!!
When can we hear the 2nd part of Maestro Tuneh’s interview?
Jason, please ask Maestro Tuneh to play in a video podcast KOL NIDREI,
he playes it in a way that your breath is taking away from you.
i heard him in germany,it still in my head.no cellist playes it so original and with imagine like Tuneh.
pleace ask him, every one should see & hear his idees with this peace.
thanks.
Holla , i just heard the Tuneh interview,i have two words to say: THE KING !
jason you are LORD.
Maestro Tuneh is one of the greatests artists on earth.!!
Bravo Bravo Bravo.
please post all the interview.
My god…
Mr.Tuneh is yong but sounds like 100 years old.
amazing life experience,so smart & charming person.
Genius.
real artist,real maestro amazing true & one of his kind.
Genius.
Jason IF you find more from his kind,pleace post them!
Maestro Tuneh gave me power to go on with my bass playing with his
words.
thank you Mr.Tuneh!
thank you Jason for posting his importent words.
Amazing artist!!!
Maestro Tuneh speaks better then all the stars of the calssical world today!
Bravi Maestro.
Wow ,great interview.
Mr.Tuneh is charming bass player!
what about the rest of the interview with him??
Mr. Tuneh is amazing!
Great interview,You can learn from tuneh some things for life also,not only about music.
great person!
good job Jason!
Its good to hear & to know about Mr. Tuneh.
what an intresting view, it comes out in his way of playing.
thank you jason for postimg this &
other great interviews.
Great Jason, you got my comment.
thank you for the posting the 2nd part of Maestro tuneh’s interview.
Thank You for the fast reaction & posting the rest of Maestro Tuneh’s interview this weekend.
I heard the 2nd part of his interview!
AMAZING!! i have nothing to say!
Tuneh is out of this world!!
Hallo Jason, can you belive, i got to hear that great interview with the Big Maestro Tuneh six times since you posted it today.
mannnn , i am crazy….
Thanks.
Hi Jason,i believe that there is a lot more to ask Mr. Tuneh, a peron from his kind, you sould ask more about the philosophy of some subjects, try to bring his personality lines out.
anyway you did a great job.
Mr. Tuneh encourage to think about the bass as a instroment of making art not just to play it.
GREAT!
but as he said Artists are not allover on the street,so how to do it,talent? but not everybudy has!
it can be hard to know it!!
Woww…
What a great way to think.
stay all life open to new idees and try to learn new things.
every orchestra musion sould try this.
A good leason for all musions, who think that they are great, just hear that charming interview with Maestro Tuneh.
they will understand that great people dont have time to think about how big & special they are!!
they are just like this!!!
Bravo!!! Maestro Tuneh!
(finaly a bass player who has to say someting intresting)
Because of that interview,the Bass has a new fan, ME.
” God gave Double-Bass to GUY, put it in soul of everyone”
after “KISS”
Great interview!!
Great Maestro Tuneh!!
Jason, Great idea!
Wow… if only the leaders of the world would think and speak like that!!
Bravoooooo… Mr.Tuneh.
I think that you have to make an open live interview via internet with Maestro Tuneh, so that everyone can join & ask, Think about it Jason.
Hooo, What an interview…
Genius!!
What an interview..!
every words shows so much life experience,no wonder that he playes like he play.BRAVO!
Its a pleasure to hear Mr Tuneh idea’s, he is encouraging me to play more abd to use my head.
Thank Mr. Tuneh you are Amazing!
I Saw Mr. Tuneh in Salzburg Festspiele, plays Mozart, what a
bass player.
even as an Orchestra bassist…
Amazing.smooth, warm, sound & great musion.Great bass grup leader, so clear with his body.
wish that we all have players like Tuneh neer us.
BRAVO
Wowww…
Amazing interview.
BRAVO Mr. Tuneh
Saw Maestro Tuneh in swisserland ,
in Luzern festival, he played amazing.
what a bass player, he played for all of his grup!!!
Musions!
hear! look! & Learn!!!
First to play as he playes (Amazing)
and now his ideas of bow case..
woww so active…
nice!
Great Person,
wish that all my musion “friend”
would be like him.
true and clever.
Wow
very nice interview!
still thinking about every word.
You need to go a long way, hard fight,& to see the true till you say that smart words.
Great Mr. Tuneh!
What A Great Interview!
Words of Power.
Strong, Very strong!!
Every word=Gold!!
Like every note that he Playes.
Splendid.
Very importent interview!!
Yes, True but very sad.
Bravo for amazing way how to see the things.
What an interview!
Woww
Great words.
Thanks Jason for this interview.
every word is gold.
You played the Rococo Just AMAZING!!!,
the last week in Basel.
Thank you for your Playing and for this great interview!!!
So much personality in one bassist!
So its not only in my head that something in the music world goes wrong!!!
only cold hard musicians are on the top, the soloists of today have no idea about playing – only technic is importent, how you smile and how to leck the A++ of the others!.
Orchestra instrumentalists are arrogant and the Professors sure that they are Right in everything that they do!
For me, the hope of music in the future calls GUY TUNEH and other musicians who think like him (still he is the only one that i know).
BRAVO that this kind of player is thinking differently.
Lets hope that he will survive in this crazy cold and stupid
music world!!!!
i can understand if he dont wont to have any conection to other musicians.
Jason post more from this Genius – to wake up all the others who
like to sleep and dont see the truth!!!!!
Thank you for this interview – the most importent that you did!