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Bass instinct: a new generation of double bass players

2024-07-31T08:32:00

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The Strad speaks to five double bassists who are helping to shape a multifaceted and forward-looking new generation of players

Kebra-Seyoun Charles

US soloist and composer

The child of an African dancer and drummer, jazz singer and church chorister, 26-year-old US bassist and composer Kebra-Seyoun Charles tells me their first introduction to music was ‘being dragged’ to all of their mother’s rehearsals. ‘My understanding of music was formed around my experiences as a Black person in America’…

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