CBC 34: Colin Corner interview and music from JC Jones and Daniel Nix
This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Minnesota Orchestra bassist Colin Corner. Colin joined the orchestra in 2006 after being a member of the Vancouver Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. We got a chance to talk auditions, orchestra life, gear, and much more. We also feature a piece from Israel-based musician J.C. Jones and Victoria, British Columbia-based musician Daniel Nix. Enjoy!
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CBC #34 Show Notes
Release Date: 8/19/07
Length: 49:16
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Colin Corner bio:
Colin Corner joined the Minnesota Orchestra in September 2006 after serving as associate principal bass of the Vancouver Symphony and touring with the Minnesota Orchestra on the summer 2006 European Festivals Tour.
Corner began his musical training in Indianapolis, studying with Peter Hansen, Bob Goodlett and Bennett Crantford of the Indianapolis Symphony. He attended Interlochen Arts Camp, where in 1997 he was awarded the Double Bass Class Studio Award, which was recently renamed the Colin Corner Bass Award in his honor. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, Corner earned a degree from Indiana University, studying with Lawrence Hurst and winning the University’s 2003 Concerto Competition; while there, he also played in orchestras around the state. He next won a position with the Louisiana Philharmonic and was active on the avant-garde jazz scene, sitting in with Ellis Marsalis and playing in El Radio Fantastique, a “dark rock band beyond categorization.”
A recipient of numerous awards, Corner won third place in the 2001 International Society of Bassists Orchestral Competition and two years later took the competition’s first prize, which led to a one-week internship with the Detroit Symphony. Corner has attended the Music Academy of the West and the Aspen Music Festival. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, mountain biking and snowboarding.
Musical Guest: J.C. Jones
Music Played: Coming: live episodes
visit J.C. Jones online at www.kadimacollective.com/JCJones.htm for purchasing information
J.C. Jones bio:
Jean Claude Jones was born in1949 in Sfax, Tunisia, raised in France, and educated in the US.
From Tunisia he moved to France, where by the age of17, a self taught musician, he began working in professional popular music and jazz bands on lead and bass guitar. After majoring in jazz guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received a music degree in 1980, he spent two years in Los Angeles studying at the Music Institute of Technology. He emigrated to Israel in 1983. In 1986 he made a definitive switch from bass guitar to double bass, and started to immerse himself in free improvised music. He later added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal.
JC Jones is an esteemed music educator and served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance between 1996 and 2000.
He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets and vocal artists, including Stan Getz (1985), Red Rodney (1986) Dave Liebman (1988). Since the 1990s he has appeared with John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Ned Rothenberg, Slava Ganelin, Steve Horenstein, Albert Beger, Arkady Gotesman, Avishai Cohen, Julien Hamilton, Amos Hetz, Anat Shamgar, Ariel Shibolet, Harold Rubin, Victoria Hanna, Josef Sprinzak, and many others.
His most recent release, Hosting Myself, from Kadima Collective Recordings is his first solo disc.
JC Jones’s current projects include the Excited Strings with cellist Yuval Mesner and guest reed player Steve Horenstein, and the Between the Strings trio with viola player Nori Jacoby and violinist Daniel Hoffman, featuring soprano sax player Ariel Shibolet.
The driving force behind his work is “finding one’s space.”
Musical Guest: Daniel Nix
Music Played: Claude Debussy – Beau Soir (Beautiful Evening)
visit www.danielnix.com for more information about Daniel
Daniel Nix bio:
Daniel Nix began the double bass at the age of fourteen because of the insistence of his orchestra director in Richardson, Texas. Having previously studied violin from the age of ten, Daniel was persuaded to make this supposedly temporary switch of instruments in order to accommodate the needs of the orchestra. After having played the double bass only one day, the director of the orchestra concluded that Daniel demonstrated too strong an affinity for the instrument not to continue. After much reluctance, Daniel focused his efforts on playing the double bass but subconsciously longed for the gorgeous melodies so easily played on the violin. After his years on the violin, Daniel found the double bass massive, uncomfortable, and extremely difficult for producing a beautiful and satisfying sound. At first he could not see a way to play such a cumbersome instrument in the way he wanted. Upon hearing famed bassist Karr in concert, Daniel, at the age of seventeen, realized the enormous potential of the instrument. After this brief encounter, Daniel began to experiment and learn how to produce what he considered “a gorgeous sound” with which he could convey strong emotional messages similar to those he heard in the Karr concert.
After studying for a year at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, where Daniel had the extraordinary opportunity to study with the finest members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, he attended KarrKamp, an intensive course in double bass studies, in 2003. There, for the first time, Daniel had the chance to play for his mentor. Upon hearing him play, Karr expressed a strong interest in working with Daniel privately. This encouraged Daniel to move to Victoria, British Columbia in order to study privately with Karr while also attending the University of Victoria to major in music performance and study with Mary Rannie, principal bassist of the Victoria Symphony.
Throughout his musical journey both as a student and performer, Daniel’s most important goal is to be a lyrical player. Daniel says, “with so much importance placed on technique with little regard for lyricism in today’s competitive world, so many musicians become cold technocrats rather than expressive artists.”
Music provided by:
JC Jones
Daniel Nix
Eric Hochberg
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