Double Bass Buell Neidlinger

[Earl]

I have been checking him out a lot recently and noticed that he does not have his own thread here (except for an RIP one). I have been enjoying his sound and low note focus on records by Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor and his own groups like Buellgrass, and his outspoken views in several interviews. I have only found this one video of him playing, does anyone know of any others?

 

[LouisF]

I knew Beull when he was in the Boston Symphony (I studied with Leslie Martin) and then when he came out West to teach at CalArts (I went there for my MFA in theater, not music). He was complicated - cranky, fun, intense. He gave me a cake Lebenzeller rosin that he signed (the case, not the rosin!) that still sits in my desk.