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Discovering the bowing techniques for articulation in Jazz (2016)

Bernardo Sacconi
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Name: Bernardo Sacconi Main Subject: Jazz Double Bass Research Supervisor: Yvonne Smeets Title of Research: Discovering the bowing techniques for the articulation in jazz Research Question: How can I use the classical bowing technique in order to create exercises for practicing swing phrasing within a Jazz Solo with the bow? Summary of Results: The double bass has mostly been played with the “Pizzicato” technique throughout history the history of jazz, even though some famous bassists in the 30s and 40s were incorporating the bow in their solos in order to explore different sound possibilities. My methodology is to write bowing articulation over the transcriptions of five solos, two by tenor saxophone-players and three by bass-players, in order to sound as close as possible to the original and then I wrote five bowing-examples that could be used as an exercise to practice some of the lines in the transcriptions. Biography: I was born in Florence (Italy) on December 1989 and I grew up in a family where my father and my brother were both electric bass players and I started playing guitar and bass on my fifteenth birthday. I graduated at the Conservatory of Florence “Luigi Cherubini” in Jazz arrangement “Cum Lauda” and composition with Riccardo Fassi, Barend Middelhoff and Stefano Zenni and at the Royal Conservatoire in Double Bass with Janos Bruneel, Roelof Meijer, Clemens van der Feen, Tony Overwater and getting workshops with Renaud Garcia Fons, Dominic Seldis, Panagiotis Andreou, Eddie Gomez, Anders Jormin, Paolino Dalla Porta, Furio Di Castri, Omer Avital, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nicholas Walter and others.
typeresearch exposition
date02/03/2016
published23/08/2016
last modified23/08/2016
statuslimited publication
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licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/130761/130762
published inKC Research Portal
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