Beedster

Yep, all a bit safe wasn't it. I used to date a sculptress and she said that get any recognition in her art you had to be able to do fingers, irrespective of your creative vision. BassBoy did fingers well I think 👍

Perhaps the BBC should do an X-Factor and put all the contestants in the one band 👍 Nice point about the physical limitations of the instrument, there's always that risk isn't there that we're impressed by the overcoming of these as much by the music itself (although having said that, it's probably true of many instruments, certainly I suspect of slap on electric bass). What I noticed was how clear and well-articulated each and every one of his notes appeared to be; OK some of that might be the quality of the room and the audio engineering, but he seemed to achieve a clarity of tone that to my mind is rare. Despite the physical limitations of the instrument

Thanks guys, it seems odd that the venue wants evidence of indemnity cover and not public liability cover, it's a wedding BTW, Having said that, as per @Burns-bass post we are pretty rubbish so perhaps indemnity is more relevant 🤔

Can anyone explain the difference, we have a venue requiring indemnity cover apparently apparently indicating PL is not sufficient?

Agreed, the DB was relatively low in the mix compared to the other soloists, but my ears adapted. And of course he still won, so perhaps something was working about that mix?

Of course he is, I'd completely forgotten, I started a thread on him a while back, probably my fave bassist

I thought exactly the opposite, I'm no great fan of upright as a lead instrument (I tried with Mingus for years), but found his playing more accessible and importantly, enjoyable. I'm looking forward to watching it again 👍 Now the pianist who followed I really did not enjoy at all

Took me a few minutes to realise that he was a lefty, couldn't work out what wasn't computing visually at first 🤔

In the 70s/80s I used to dream of owning a Hagstrom Patch 🤔

Just looked again and think the lighting changes fooled me into thinking the stage had changed. Suspect the Markbass rig wasn't involved in the DB section 👍

Unless I was dreaming the rig had moved when the bass player was using it, which is why I assumed the DB guy was also going through it? But yes, what a great player, might be biased but he seemed head and shoulders above the rest in terms of range and versatility/creativity 👍

All joking aside, why - in a Jazz competition and a pretty traditional one at that - would a double bass player use a mic into a huge bas rig that was itself mic'd to front of house? I'm working on the basis that both he as a pretty competent musician and the BBC sound guys both know what they're doing. Is it simply that's the sound he prefers? Going against that is the idea that the same rig was used for the electric bass player who sat in with a couple of the other acts? I was also wondering whether the rig was just 'there' and not active during the double bass set, but the stage arrangement seemed to vary with the players so I'm guessing not? Last time I saw a double bass and a 8x10 on the same stage was Old Crow Medicine Show at the roundhouse, but that's a very different genre and sound (and to be honest he might as well have been playing an electric for the sound he was getting)

https://londonjazznews.com/2022/11/20/ewan-hastie-wins-fifth-bbc-young-jazz-musician-competition/?amp=1

Odd signal chain DB-mic-amp-cab-mic. Nice big stage though 👍

And the bass player won 👍

Don’t often see Markbass 8x10 on a jazz stage ?

What it says 👍

Well given that most other posts are either "Bass Direct are great and here's why" or "Bass Direct are stinky poo and here's why", thank god for tangents 👍

Interesting question, care to share the answer?