Just saw Larry Gray play...!!

[LittleWoodenBoy]

Ok, so I'm a student at the University of Illinois, and I play in the Jazz bands down here. There's a Jazz Forum that goes on here every Friday at noon, and today's was the first of the new semester, so some of the faculty put a combo together for it. Well there's no Jazz Bass professor down here so they called in a guy whom I'd never heard of before to play Bass for this combo: Larry Gray.

 

Oh my sweet Lord, this guy's good. I don't know if he's well-known or not. I'm sure he must be, though. He's from Chicago. This guy plays the most burning upright I've ever seen live. On a latin chart they were doing he busted out a bow and did the most amazing arco solo I've ever heard. Just so beautiful and melodic. Anyway, I just wanted to say that this guy's goooood, and I'm going to try to find some recordings he's on.

 

Anybody else heard of this guy?

[Fran da Man]

http://www.larrygraymusic.com/

 

Never heard of him, I'll check him out though.

[Fran da Man]

Can only d/l some clips on his site; but it sounds like he's got some interesting stuff going on.

Cool...just listened to "Face of the Blues"...old timey real blues with what sounds to be a Classical twist...whatever it is it's frekin neat.

[fretless]

Originally posted by Fran da Man http://www.larrygraymusic.com/ Never heard of him, I'll check him out though.

 

that is some beautiful bass playing right there

[Spark]

Yah, he's well known on the Chicago jazz scene--he's kind of a top upright cat here, plays with some of the big jazz names that come through.

 

He used to be a prof. at Northern IL U, and I saw him play a solo set there on upright. He was {censored}ing amazing! I've heard him play in some combos as well and he's just fantastic.