I had the pleasure of sitting down and interviewing the great double bass virtuoso Guy Tuneh today. Guy radiates a love of the instrument in everything he does, and I know that musicians of all disciplines will love to hear this great artist speak from the heart.
If you haven’t heard Guy’s bass playing, you’re really missing out. You can hear his playing through the following links:
- www.guytuneh.com – Guy Tuneh’s official website
- Contrabass Conversations #28 – Guy Tuneh performs L. Mozart 20 min. into the show
- Guy Tuneh plays La Sonnambula – video
- Guy Tuneh performs Rossini Duetto mvt 1 – video
- Guy Tuneh performs Rossini Duetto mvt 2 – video
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So when can we hear it?
Next weekend we will feature Guy Tuneh on the program, so you can expect it on Sunday, July 22nd. Stay tuned here and at http://www.contrabassconversations.com, or subscribe to the podcast to have it automatically download when it’s available.
Hallo Jason
we know tuneh from villa musica in germany,he is a wonderfull Chamber
player.
we think that it is good that you
made an interview with him.
we will be there, to hear him!
Guten Tag Jason.
we sau guy tuneh in St.Aegigien(germany) before two weeks.
he playid “Kol Nidrei” on his Kontrabaß,it was wonderfull.!!!
we enjoyed from him like from no one in the last time.
The Televition was allso there,so we had the chance to see him again in the TV.
do you thing you can put this show in your show? it is interesting.
it was mor interesting then the cello record thas we have at home.
Woawww..
To make interview with Mr.Tuneh,
Intresting to hear the person and to get more info about him.
Guys Rossini Dueto with Meyer was
out of this world.two Artists,one of a kind
iam looking to hear Guys intervew.
Jason, You are doing a great Job.
go on with bringing the best Bass players in the world.
we loved very much Guy’s Bottesini
Concerto B minor, he played it in Basel not long ago.lot of energy!
he is giving so much from him on stage, he is doing 180%, it is geart to see someone like this.
lot of fire & emotions.just great.
I heard so many bass players,some
famous & some not, but this Guy is
Charming,every time when i see his videos, its amazing me.
Bravooo guy tuneh,it speak as you
play, it will pleasure to hear your interview.
Herr Tuneh :
Du Bist phänomen!!!!
Bravo (für Bottesini und Rossini)
I know Guy since the days of Berlin,when he studyed there.
he did along long way to be what he is,a real fighter, i can remmember how everybody tryed to put him down. alot of us left the bass playing because of “little” people like these in Berlin, i am one of them!!
Guy if you read this,U have to know, they did it only because
they could fill that You are what you are; great Artist and amazing person.(and they are N O T !!!)
May god be with you,
be strong !!!!!
we love U!!!
did you see he is playing ?
this Guy is crazy….
he’s like the Lord of bass,or the Buddha Bass.
cool mann!
Jason You are doing a very good Jod.
your interviews and the bass players that You bring are realy good! not only Tuneh (who is one of the best !), also the others.
go on.
Something About Guy:
Guy is very special person,if you work with him, you will get only better.his idees are amazing & sometimes exetrim hard to understand & only after some time you will understand what he wont.
he never do less then 170% !!.
just to be with him in one room & you are getting other player,you are in your best!.you can fill his energy and his presents,sometimes its not easy,but after you played with him on stage & get good newspaper article because of this… !!! amazing….
i know , because i worked with him.
i hope i will have that chance again!!
One of his Chamber music member!
You & Guy are doing so mush for the Bass.
go on!!
After i saw Mr. Tuneh in internet.
his sound is very worm,loud,nice and not heard.its very smooth.i’d like to know how he does it.
Hi Jason
we are now in Salzburg and i have the chance to work with guy tuneh.
he is amazing bassist, great soloist and amazing orchestra player.
so its cool to see his name in the net, on the time that we are working in Salzburg.
one of the W.E-Divan 2007
Guy tuneh is great , real Artist.
amazing bass player , and great musicion.
Jason keep it that way, your show is realy realy cool!!
Can we buy CD of Mr Tuneh, or
something ?
Very nice that in Utube you can find more about guy tuneh.
this “Piccola”, is it old ??
I am not sure if Guy has any CDs available yet, but I will be sure to let you know. The ‘Piccola’ piece that he played was written in 1976. Isn’t it great? I’ll post it on the blog later today.
Hallo Jason,
Mr. Tunehs video is realy intresting, first time that i hear that music, it looks like a peace
that is short & intersting.
something great to play, Nr. Tuneh has great idees!!
thank you Jason.
thank You Guy Tuneh.!!!
I am still flying from that interview.
profi. bass player!
Jason,do know when guy tuneh is going to visit in america.
in his web there is no info about
visiting there.
can you ask him?
Can you ask Mr. Tuneh for an internet lesson? (via Webcam)
so.., it looks like bass players
can make music… o.k
i allways was thinking that bass players are slow and …..
so ,Tuneh is another kind.
good for him.
who is that Guy, he is so smart!!
he speaks like an old person with alot of head.
he also play nice.
cool, good to know him.
Maestro Tuneh plyed With Maestro Barenboim the Orchestra var. from Schonberg in Malaga,var. no 4 – the solo bass was amazing.!!
Maestro Tuneh played it so well…
one of its kind!!, better then any CD that i heard!
Bravooo !!
How How,so special….
i am shocked from his way of thinking.
After that interview;
Maestro Tuneh is an Amazing Artist from other Dimension.
i liked his way of speaking about music but most of all, to teach us the right thing: to love what we do and not to Step the others on our way.we will not even need it!
What a great person!!!!
hoo Jason, go on …!!
So there are Angels on earth!
I ask again,is Mr. Tuneh alone or he has a wife?
What a Big Heart!
i’d love to work with Mr. Tuneh.
Great Artist.
What a Big heart.
This Guy is Crazy or somthing or maybe Genius.
he thinks that the bass is like a Violin or somthing.
well if he can play like fast things & to “sing” on that instroment(solo)…. why not!
for people like me, i’m happy to play in orchestra or something like this.
he is trying to make the bass “big”,
the bass sould be where it is all the time!!
Very good,very smart, every word is true.
Thank you Mr. Tuneh.
Mr. Tuneh speak like a Violin player, not like a bassist.
its a pleasure to hear this Great performer.
Still thinking about every word that Maestro Tuneh said,
finaly musicion who dont have his EGO in the sky (never forget where he is comming from).
Great true and helpfull interview for everyone.
In the end i got the feeling that Mr.Tuneh gave us so much from himself and that the interview is about us, about everyone and not only about him.
about how to help us the “little” people
the simple bass players.. (you need to be Big nobel person to help Just like this and to speak from his heart, without to ask for something for it, my Bass Prof. in Germany
did only busines all the time-and teachted to less)
Mr. Tuneh you are great, thanks alot for changing my way of thinking about the bass and music. (My Prof. could not do it in 5 years!!)
It would be nice to hear from you again in one of the interview with Jason or someone else.
Mega!
And now what..?
why all the rest are getting “secend chance” – for one more interview and Guy Tuneh not?
his interview was for sure one of the best ever in that blog!
INDEED,
Great Interview, please post more from this Bassist (he isnt bass player, he is a Violin player with a soul of an Opera singer!!!)
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 the 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.
Guy Tuneh is the finest Bassplayer alive today!!!
What a Great Interview!
The interview sound is very pur…
The interview sound quality is very pur.
its time to make anew interview, Tuneh has so much to say!
and i’m sure that so many people would be happy to understand what he say.
point to think about J.
from what i could understand, Tuneh appears as one of the greatest artists of our time.
After surfing around in this Blog:
Why when a person speaks so deeply and so truthful from his heart
saying very important things!!! and gives his wishs to every one out there,
why SOME people using this Great Blog as a stage to “to pay back” Guy Tuneh??
After all, very few (if not less than) can speak or play like him!
Bravo Mr. Tuneh for speaking smart
Bravo Mr. Tuneh for playing so beautiful.
I think that the biggest mistake that Mr. Tuneh is doing, is that he tries to be “beloved” by bass-players.
It will lead him to misconceive!!!
Bass-players can be moronic, how can you even dare to think that the level of bass playing today is so good or impresive???
It needs more than just to play the right notes in the right time to say that bassists are amazing or the bass world is getting “kick”, look all over, bassists are playing like a machines, copying each other, is this the level that we as bass-players would like to achieve??
(…some will say yes, well, this comment is not for these guys, they souldnt read it!)
Every monky to play fast is getting the stage, if Patkolo would hear the original Sarasate or the original Cerney he would hide
and very fast, to be a “hero” because all the Idiots out there are simply morons without any idea how the things sould realy sound, or because he is playing just fast like a shocked-monky in a circus!! (sorry for sounding so hard…)
To try to impress the bass-community is a big mistake especially when we have to do with player like Guy Tuneh!!
He sould go and perform to a real audiance and not infront of moronic people to make a moronic comments.
Mr. Tuneh can be in front of the stage with first class muscicians who try to show more than just “I can play the notes”
(like our Prof. from Arizona – Rococo have never being so boring
or cramped on bass, he sould try to impress a real musicians and yound students who are looking for teacher…).
The same mistake did the great O. Badila – try to show to bassists a “new world”, they didnt understand it!! (in 50 years maybe…) and he made himself very tangible because of that Amazing Talent that he was.
Guy Tuneh sould take care and just do his way, and never sould listen to comments from morons like some bassists can be!
its waste of time and energy!!!
Huge Talent like G. Tuneh sould go on with creating new standarts
and giving us like always alot to think about!!.
(To give 5 stars in You-Tube for a drunken-bassist who “try” to
play standarts and “proud” that his orchestra – LSO – was making him to a Joke after playing wrong! – bunch of idiots),
Thank you for making my point:
Once again – its waste of time and energy!!!
(sorry if i heart someone – but its a free land….)
and i’m not stupid Dragotesini!!
I Think that Mr. Tuneh give us some new things to think about and he has the “power” to make us looking at ourself
and to ask: what can i do better?
This is like gold – its the best teacher
that someone can have!!!
This Guy is Genius!
I still thinking that to be a GREAT musician, You have to be
a GREAT person,
thank you Maestro Tuneh for making my point!!!