Double Bass Basses seen on-screen

[cnltb]

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" has a great scene in Italy with live Jazz which is provided by the best of English Jazz players - the guys I see at my local Jazz club each week!!

Guy Barker ... Trumpet (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Bernardo Sassetti ... Piano (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Perico Sambeat ... Alto Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Gene Calderazzo ... Drums (Napoli Jazz Septet) mer
Joseph Lepore ... Double Bass (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Rosario Giuliuni ... Tenor Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Eddy Palerno ... Electric Guitar (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Byron Wallen ... Cornet (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Pete King ... Alto Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Clark Tracey ... Drums (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Jean Toussaint ... Tenor Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Geoff Gascoyne ... Bass (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Carlo Negroni ... Piano (San Remo Jazz Sextet

Geoff Gascoyne is a regular - he is in Jamie Cullum's band!

Which one is your local jazz club ?

 

[cnltb]

There's a film in which robert de niro and edward norton plan a heist together...deniros character owns a jazz club and cassandra wilsons' band have a cameo.
I think it's lonnie P on bass.


Not the greatest of films though.

 

[JansenW]

How about "The Godfather"? I remember a scene with a piano and bass playing in like a dark cafe, interwoven with newspaper headlines about gang wars. The bass is bowing a brooding solo on some melancholy Italian song. I don't think you can see enough to tell anything about the bass, but it sticks in my mind because the bassist is playing in a very strange way. It's like he has his whole left arm over the fingerboard. Anyone else ever notice this?

The is one were Michel goes to Las Vegas and kick out the band and everybody who is in the room were his brother organized a party for him.

And in Godfather part two, outside at the beginning of the movie with the band playing at his girl's birthday, and one I think it's in part one, when there is a party for the marriage of Micheal's sister.

Saw The Godfather Part III last month. They're several in a orchestra scene during the assassination attempt at the opera.

That makes them in all of the Godfather movies!

 

[D McCartney]

Add Jerico of Scotland Yard; To Murder and Create
and Prarie Home Companion the movie to the list.

 

[Feral Feline]

"Walk the Line", Slick Joe Fick
"Viva Las Vegas", Bill Black (or not, movie came out in '64 and you only get a glimpse)
"Hellzapoppin", Slam Stewart
"Rock Around the Clock", Al Rex (also "Don't Knock the Rock", "Atlantic City Holiday")
"Blue Suede Shoes", Ray Campi
"All of Me"

 

[weary gill]

Man, Hellzapoppin' is so great.

 

[CPike]

The Playhouse (1921) Buster Keaton...

 

[punkinfantry]

Scott Pilgrim vs the World...a Rickenbacker held together by duct tape, and later a sweet black n white one.

 

[CPike]

The Changeling (1980) - scene near the beginning following George C. Scott walking around Seattle, he passes a guy carrying a bass in a bag along the plaza...

 

[CPike]

Gosh, how could I've forgotten this! In an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, King Friday declares his desire for a bass violin festival...

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[fred pratt]

That's excellent, a day-long bass violin festival.

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned The Last Picture Show, which I watched a couple weeks ago. Nothing special, just a Saturday night dance with a country band. Good movie, and a good book too.

 

[petesenkowski]

"That Thing You Do". Yeah, I know it's been mentioned before (for bass guitar), but Count Basie bassist James Leary plays double bass in a jazz trio at the "Blue Spot".

 

[gerry grable]

I remember an old TV production, one of those play housesthey had in the 50s and early 60s.
Henry Fonda played a high society bassist who worked at (I believe ) The Stork Club which was run/owned by Sherman Billngsly at the time. He is just returning from his steady 6 hour 6 day a week gig when he gets arrested for murder. A case of mistaken identity;it may have been based on a true story.

 

[Turock]

I remember an old TV production, one of those play housesthey had in the 50s and early 60s.
Henry Fonda played a high society bassist who worked at (I believe ) The Stork Club which was run/owned by Sherman Billngsly at the time. He is just returning from his steady 6 hour 6 day a week gig when he gets arrested for murder. A case of mistaken identity;it may have been based on a true story.

I believe you are talking about this:

Henry Fonda was a bass player in The Wrong Man, another Hitchcock movie, IIRC.

 

[BrBss]

If I recall, there's a DB in "The Thirteenth Floor".

 

[Herbie 80's]

In the ballroom scene in Get Smart, you can see a beautiful Mario Lamarre bass. The film was shot in Montreal where this luthier lives. You get to see the bassist as well in a couple of shots. I'm not sure who it is though.

The extension looks something like this: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
except it is of a dragon.

That bassist is a teacher here named Frederic Alarie. He teaches at Universite de Montreal, from what I know.

 

[bejoyous]

There is an interesting 2003 made-for-TV movie about the private premiere of Beethoven's Third Symphony called Eroica. There are several scenes with the basses. See 3:42 and 7:03 of the first clip for starters.

 

[glenfong]

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) plays doublebass for Jack Benny:

Mel Blanc with Jack Benny - Classic Sy sketch.avi - YouTube

 

[RBrownBass]

Didn't see (or missed) Sting in "Stormy Mondays".

Sting in "Stormy Moaday" - YouTube

Didn't say he was playing it well, just recalled it from years ago.