Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:33 pm
Cool stuff!
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Cool stuff!
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:43 pm
As a surprise to nobody he sounds great
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:49 pm
For a moment, I thought it might be another one of those videos. So, what mpc is he using?
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:50 pm
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:03 pm
Good stuff on site. I really glad he is expanding the bass material. Often has an easier arrangement as well as the full version.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:36 pm
Probably the 1F or whatever the deepest cup is they make at Griego. Or an actual bass piece, since they make em in that blank too.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:04 pm
Shires Alessi bass on the way?
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:31 pm
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:42 pm
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pm
Oh come on there's another one of them!?!?Bach5G wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:42 pmThis one:
https://trombonechat.com/viewtopic.php? ... ft#p132531
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:28 pm
I took action to call him out on it. The moderators seemed to not like that too muchskeletal wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:07 pmOh come on there's another one of them!?!?Bach5G wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:42 pm
This one:
https://trombonechat.com/viewtopic.php? ... ft#p132531
I've got to figure out how to walk that line lol
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:16 am
Most excellent playing and terrific sound!
Okay, correct me if I am wrong b/c I don't know classical music. I did not actually hear a bass trombone per se. What I heard in the vid was someone playing a tenor part ON a bass trombone. I understand that a bass trombone theoretically has the same range as a large-bore tenor trombone. But this is more what I expect to hear from both a tenor and a bass trombone:
Okay, correct me if I am wrong b/c I don't know classical music. I did not actually hear a bass trombone per se. What I heard in the vid was someone playing a tenor part ON a bass trombone. I understand that a bass trombone theoretically has the same range as a large-bore tenor trombone. But this is more what I expect to hear from both a tenor and a bass trombone:
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:59 am
Wow, that was excellent!ArbanRubank wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:16 am .... I did not actually hear a bass trombone per se. What I heard in the vid was someone playing a tenor part ON a bass trombone..... . But this is more what I expect to hear from both a tenor and a bass trombone:
I love Verhelst and Van Dijk. Alessi is obviously brilliant as well. Sounds like there was the audio equivalent of some photoshopping going on there, but well done.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:03 am
He was playing the BASS trombone part of the Haydn Creation in the beginning.ArbanRubank wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:16 am Most excellent playing and terrific sound!
Okay, correct me if I am wrong b/c I don't know classical music. I did not actually hear a bass trombone per se. What I heard in the vid was someone playing a tenor part ON a bass trombone. I understand that a bass trombone theoretically has the same range as a large-bore tenor trombone. But this is more what I expect to hear from both a tenor and a bass trombone:
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:10 am
WGWTR180 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:03 amHe was playing the BASS trombone part of the Haydn Creation in the beginning.ArbanRubank wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:16 am Most excellent playing and terrific sound!
Okay, correct me if I am wrong b/c I don't know classical music. I did not actually hear a bass trombone per se. What I heard in the vid was someone playing a tenor part ON a bass trombone. I understand that a bass trombone theoretically has the same range as a large-bore tenor trombone. But this is more what I expect to hear from both a tenor and a bass trombone:
Used to be the thing to play the creation on large tenor, with small bore and alto on the upper parts
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:20 am
Uhhh yeh I realize that.Vegasbound wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:10 am
Used to be the thing to play the creation on large tenor, with small bore and alto on the upper parts
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:24 am
But many of our younger readers may not!WGWTR180 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:20 amUhhh yeh I realize that.Vegasbound wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:10 am
Used to be the thing to play the creation on large tenor, with small bore and alto on the upper parts
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:47 am
Yes but you were quoting me. That's why I quoted the person who was unaware.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:13 am
I was also unaware. Now I know. Apparently, composers have written lines for bass trombone to play up in the tenor range. They obviously knew what they were doing, b/c the ones I have heard sound fantastic.
But for my personal endeavors, this is more like the kind of range concept I have for bass trombone:
But for my personal endeavors, this is more like the kind of range concept I have for bass trombone:
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:39 am
Joe has played Bass before - there's some overdubbing on a Latin-themed CD that he released a few years ago. Also, he had to cover some Bass Trombone on his first gig in the Philadelphia Orchestra. I remember seeing his Bass Trombone going up for sale in some Trombone classifieds just after he became the Principal in NY. He has obviously picked up a new one.
Jim Scott
Jim Scott
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 4:17 pm
CalgaryTbone wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:39 am Joe has played Bass before - there's some overdubbing on a Latin-themed CD that he released a few years ago.
Ah! You are referring to one of my favorite albums, Caliente! See more info here!
best,
jr
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 4:31 pm
It sounds too perfect.....but everything does this days. I have only listen two brass concerts live where I was moved. One was with Philip Jones brass ensemble, the another was with Christian Lindbergh.
Leif
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Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:37 pm
Christian's refusal to play from the score during performance (there are exceptions, but they are rare) I think is a huge part of why he can draw so much emotion out of a piece. Others are, literally, just playing notes on a page. I got chills during the concerts of his I've been able to see live. One was the Kalevi Aho Symphony 9. He passes off a high E or something to a clarinet and the handoff was so clean I thought it was the chandeliers reverberating. The other was watching a warm up rehearsal in Colorado. He played a few Fs from the back of the stage that were not loud, but sounded like he was playing from the seat next to me. The other guy he was playing the double concerto with was warming up, much louder, but sounded a thousand miles away. Blew my mind.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:34 pm
In the early 1970s when I was studying with people who had played with the San Francisco Symphony in San Francisco, they kept talking about this young high school player named Joe Alessi. I guess he’s done good for himself since then. Not a bit surprised that he plays bass as well as Tenor.
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:14 pm
Re: Mr Alessi playing bass!
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:52 am
That’s how I’d have thought he’d sound on bass trombone. Splendid.