CBC 121: Ben Jensen performance
We’re featuring the Courante and Gigue from the Sixth Cello Suite by J.S. Bach as well as the first movement of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 on Eclectic Bass this week, played impeccably by the wonderful bassist Ben Jensen, currently a student of Bruce Bransby at Indiana University. These were recorded live in a master class at Indiana University and are an outstanding example of bass playing. Enjoy!
We’ve featured Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst on Contrabass Conversations previously–if you haven’t checked out this interview before, I’d encourage you to check it out. Indiana University has an established reputation as one of the premier institutions for top-notch double bassists to perfect their craft, and if Ben’s example is any indication of the talents of the younger generation of bassists, we’re in good hands indeed!
13 June 2009, 10:50 am
Wasn’t this already posted several times, the latest being with Eclectic Bass episode 7?
14 June 2009, 11:27 am
Yes he is playing very nice, but why the big noise?
he is letting the “bass play alone”, like E. Meyer, O. Badila, M. Gajdos, K. Stoll the Great Guy Tuneh and many others to study the German-school.
it sound nice also beacuse he is not “pressing” the sound like the American-school do normaly!
and his talent is very big.
Good Job- keep on doing well!
15 June 2009, 4:20 am
We’re in good hands – to say it because of one Bass-player?
dream on J.
Something has to change, its not enouth one B. Jensen or one
G. Tuneh each in his segment…
we need more than one or two to say we are in good hands, so many lonly-bass-hearts are out there, without the right teacher,
like to fight alone…
thanks that you bring close to us performars like Gajdos, Karr,
Jensen & the special Guy Tuneh, let hope that all together would make the cange, so that we all could say we are in goos hands!
16 June 2009, 4:11 pm
The Shostakovich is new, but I have posted the Bach before on the blog.