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Double Bass Eberhard Weber Question

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Watercolors (Pat Metheny)
Solstice (Ralph Towner, w/Jan Garbarek)
Passengers (Gary Burton, w/Metheny and Steve Swallow)

Are just three of the sides not overtly under Weber's name that I've always enjoyed a lot.

Edit for added value: check out Intercontinental, a Joe Pass side with Weber on acoustic upright, for something completely different too.
 
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'The Following Morning' album is remarkable. i got it when it came out, and it's still on my monthly playlist... there's a very cool long semi-silence at the top, with the players rustling in the cavernous ECM aural environment, then the 1st track arrives with an awesome initial sustained chord, into EW's upright-electric... great, great album from start to finish.
 
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Eberhard´s first EUB was a vastly modified Grazioso Arco resonet, made in Czechoslovakia ca 1960, an "almost look-alike" of the old Framus Triumph EUB. Then he played a bass custom made by German luthier Paul Lijsen. His current EUB is made by Israeli luthier Eyal Vodnizky. It has a semi-hollow body, and is fitted with Wilson pickups. All of Eberhard´s EUBs have a high C string.
 
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There is an ECM compilation - which is a good selection of solo recordings and work with Jan Garbarek.

I saw him play with the Garbarek quartet and in a way this is some of his most impressive work - in a European Jazz tradition - whereas the solo stuff is more arranged and has tended lately towards classical rather than Jazz..?
 
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As a long time Eberhard fan I have to add the recent Stages in a Long Journey, which I believe was recorded less than a year before his stroke. Beautifully arranged for orchestra + quintet(?) and recorded live. It's a pretty moving recording....

Big + for Silent Feet, Yellow Fields and The Following Morning.
 
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Chris Symer said:
As a long time Eberhard fan I have to add the recent Stages in a Long Journey, which I believe was recorded less than a year before his stroke. Beautifully arranged for orchestra + quintet(?) and recorded live. It's a pretty moving recording....

Big + for Silent Feet, Yellow Fields and The Following Morning.
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I listened to clips of "Stages" I was wowed...like its Orchestral Chamber Jazz Fusion. That is a good thing.
 

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