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
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Guy Tuneh bio:
Guy Tuneh has been studying in Germany and performing internationally. He is noted for his intense musical involvement and phenomenal performances, combining virtuosity and musicality. Mr. Tuneh has been active as a solo performer, chamber musician, orchestra and opera bassist. Having begun as a violin student at the age of 6, he was drawn to the tone color of the double bass, joining Prof. Michael Klinghoffer’s bass studio at the S. Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later, he continued his bass studies under Prof. Barbara Sanderling at the Hochschule Für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, he is now working towards a Solo Artist Diploma with Prof. Wolfgang Güttler at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel. Additionally, he took master classes with Yoan Goilav, Gary Karr and Miloslav Gajdos. His orchestra performances included engagements as a principle bassist with the Berliner Kammeroper, Ensemble “Echo” in the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Theater Erfurt, and most recently with the Solistes Européens Luxembourg. As an orchestra bassist Mr. Tuneh performed under such distinguished conductors as Kurt Sanderling, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Nicolas Harnoncourt and Christian Thielemann. Winner of a Villa Musica Scholarship, Guy Tuneh has performed all over Germany as a chamber musician and a soloist to great acclaim, and participated in chamber music and solo performances recorded by the SWR (Southwest German Radio). These performances included collaborations with Ulf Rodenhäuser, Guy Braunstein, Christian Altenburger, Wen-Sinn Yang, Martin Ostertag, Hermann Bäumer, and other distinguished musicians.The “Allgemeine Zeitung” described his performance as youthful and exuberant.
Lonnie Plaxico bio:
The middle child in a family of musicians, Chicago-born Lonnie Plaxico inherited a gift for music that was discovered and nurtured early. By the age of twelve he had taught himself to play the electric bass, and he was soon venturing into Chicago‘s music scene, renowned for its mix of jazz, funk and blues. It was not long before the young musician made his first recording, featuring his family’s band. At the age of just fourteen, having already performed alongside several prominent Chicago jazz figures, Lonnie Plaxico turned professional, playing the electric and acoustic bass with equal facility.
In 1980 Plaxico moved to New York and soon began to appear with such artists as Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon and Wynton Marsalis. His first extended tenure was with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: between1983 and 1986, lonnie performed on twelve of Blakey’s albums, including the Grammy Award-winning, New York Scene. In 1986 he joined Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, continuing with that group until 1993. Presently, Plaxico is the musical director and featured bassist for Cassandra Wilson; their critically acclaimed and award-winning collaboration has now spanned fifteen years.
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, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Sample, Abbey Lincoln, and Dizzy Gillespie. Just as noteworthy are his performances with younger artists — among them Steve Coleman, Rachelle Farrell and Dianne Reeves. lonnie has also recorded with Bill Cosby, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Barbara Dennerlein, as well as his Grammy-winning collaborations with Art Blakey and Cassandra Wilson. He has also recorded five critically acclaimed albums as leader.
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22 July 2007, 1:08 pm
Mr. Tuneh is real Artist!
i was realy amaized from his words.
a big person!!
22 July 2007, 9:31 pm
great!!!
finaly a bass player who can be there (in front) like the other
string soloists.
go on guy, you got my heart!
22 July 2007, 10:52 pm
He is great!!!
Jason, its the interview that i ever heard!!!
guy gave me so much power to go on.
22 July 2007, 10:56 pm
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.
23 July 2007, 9:43 pm
Mr. Tuneh is a charming person!!
Mr. Tuneh is one of the great bass players of our time.
would be nice to meet him!!
25 July 2007, 5:40 am
Jason, i would like to have a picture of tuneh with bass in his hands,can U help me?
25 July 2007, 1:36 pm
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.
25 July 2007, 2:21 pm
Wowww
Mr.Tuneh sounds like someone who started his way alone.did along way until what he is today.
amazing , real hearo.
25 July 2007, 3:54 pm
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.
25 July 2007, 9:41 pm
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.
26 July 2007, 3:16 pm
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 !!
27 July 2007, 5:41 am
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 .
27 July 2007, 5:47 am
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..!
27 July 2007, 12:35 pm
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!!!
27 July 2007, 10:33 pm
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
29 July 2007, 8:29 pm
i would like to hear the rest of the interview with Maestro Tuneh.
please post it as soon as posible.
30 July 2007, 5:14 am
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.
30 July 2007, 5:29 am
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.
30 July 2007, 7:33 am
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 !!
30 July 2007, 12:26 pm
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.
30 July 2007, 12:35 pm
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.
30 July 2007, 1:31 pm
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)
30 July 2007, 2:48 pm
What a Guy!
30 July 2007, 10:07 pm
Mr. Tuneh is a charming bass i dont think that it can be learned his way of playing.
31 July 2007, 5:55 am
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.
31 July 2007, 6:12 am
What an amazing Preformer!!
31 July 2007, 10:53 am
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!
31 July 2007, 11:44 am
great player & person!
31 July 2007, 6:54 pm
Maestro Tuneh,
show us how you play Dittersdorf
concert?
31 July 2007, 7:33 pm
Jason,how about virtual lessen with Maestro Tuneh?
01 August 2007, 8:11 am
What a great Artist !!
01 August 2007, 2:14 pm
Woww
i saw his Sonnambula in “YouTube”…
this Guy is crazy.. , AMAZING!!
Bravooo!! out of this world!
01 August 2007, 3:07 pm
How How…
What a bass player, pleasure for the ears & the eyes!
encouraging to work on.
01 August 2007, 6:58 pm
One of the most fantastic players i have ever seen!!
01 August 2007, 8:42 pm
Phänomen Tuneh !
02 August 2007, 4:56 pm
Mr. Tuneh is amazing!
06 August 2007, 5:19 pm
What a bass player!!!
Real Maestro!!
07 August 2007, 3:00 pm
We saw Mr.Tuneh with Maestro Barenboim , they are amazing!!
all the orchestra was cool.
two amazing artists on one stage.
Wowwwww…!!
08 August 2007, 2:48 pm
Mr. Tuneh gave a great show as an orchestra bassist in Madrid,
under Barenboim & the orchestra
Bravoooo……..
08 August 2007, 9:17 pm
Maestro Barenboim &b Maestro Tuneh,
what an amazing evening!!
09 August 2007, 6:36 am
When can we hear the 2nd part of Maestro Tuneh’s interview?
09 August 2007, 10:29 am
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.
09 August 2007, 10:32 am
Holla , i just heard the Tuneh interview,i have two words to say: THE KING !
jason you are LORD.
09 August 2007, 12:59 pm
Maestro Tuneh is one of the greatests artists on earth.!!
Bravo Bravo Bravo.
please post all the interview.
09 August 2007, 1:18 pm
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!
09 August 2007, 7:29 pm
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.
09 August 2007, 9:25 pm
Amazing artist!!!
Maestro Tuneh speaks better then all the stars of the calssical world today!
Bravi Maestro.
10 August 2007, 5:57 pm
Wow ,great interview.
Mr.Tuneh is charming bass player!
what about the rest of the interview with him??
10 August 2007, 10:21 pm
Mr. Tuneh is amazing!
11 August 2007, 11:01 am
Great interview,You can learn from tuneh some things for life also,not only about music.
great person!
good job Jason!
11 August 2007, 7:52 pm
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.
11 August 2007, 11:03 pm
Great Jason, you got my comment.
thank you for the posting the 2nd part of Maestro tuneh’s interview.
12 August 2007, 6:10 am
Thank You for the fast reaction & posting the rest of Maestro Tuneh’s interview this weekend.
12 August 2007, 12:54 pm
I heard the 2nd part of his interview!
AMAZING!! i have nothing to say!
Tuneh is out of this world!!
12 August 2007, 4:45 pm
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.
12 August 2007, 10:24 pm
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.
13 August 2007, 5:25 am
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!!
13 August 2007, 11:59 am
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.
14 August 2007, 1:04 am
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!!!
14 August 2007, 12:07 pm
Bravo!!! Maestro Tuneh!
(finaly a bass player who has to say someting intresting)
14 August 2007, 1:45 pm
Because of that interview,the Bass has a new fan, ME.
14 August 2007, 3:44 pm
” God gave Double-Bass to GUY, put it in soul of everyone”
after “KISS”
14 August 2007, 8:30 pm
Great interview!!
Great Maestro Tuneh!!
Jason, Great idea!
15 August 2007, 10:04 am
Wow… if only the leaders of the world would think and speak like that!!
Bravoooooo… Mr.Tuneh.
15 August 2007, 5:18 pm
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.
15 August 2007, 8:03 pm
Hooo, What an interview…
Genius!!
16 August 2007, 11:51 am
What an interview..!
every words shows so much life experience,no wonder that he playes like he play.BRAVO!
16 August 2007, 9:03 pm
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!
18 August 2007, 5:33 pm
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
21 August 2007, 9:56 am
Wowww…
Amazing interview.
BRAVO Mr. Tuneh
22 August 2007, 7:29 pm
Saw Maestro Tuneh in swisserland ,
in Luzern festival, he played amazing.
what a bass player, he played for all of his grup!!!
21 September 2007, 12:12 pm
Musions!
hear! look! & Learn!!!
05 October 2007, 6:31 am
First to play as he playes (Amazing)
and now his ideas of bow case..
woww so active…
nice!
20 October 2007, 3:41 pm
Great Person,
wish that all my musion “friend”
would be like him.
true and clever.
24 October 2007, 8:22 pm
Wow
very nice interview!
still thinking about every word.
04 November 2007, 7:33 am
You need to go a long way, hard fight,& to see the true till you say that smart words.
Great Mr. Tuneh!
11 February 2008, 8:49 am
What A Great Interview!
Words of Power.
12 February 2008, 3:55 pm
Strong, Very strong!!
13 February 2008, 5:25 am
Every word=Gold!!
Like every note that he Playes.
13 February 2008, 12:43 pm
Splendid.
27 February 2008, 5:54 pm
Very importent interview!!
28 February 2008, 11:11 am
Yes, True but very sad.
Bravo for amazing way how to see the things.
19 March 2008, 5:42 pm
What an interview!
12 April 2008, 2:44 am
Woww
Great words.
18 April 2008, 2:10 pm
Thanks Jason for this interview.
every word is gold.
29 May 2008, 1:33 pm
You played the Rococo Just AMAZING!!!,
the last week in Basel.
Thank you for your Playing and for this great interview!!!
10 July 2008, 3:03 pm
So much personality in one bassist!
09 October 2008, 6:36 am
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!