Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser ( born September 26, 1952 in Los Angeles ) is an American bassist and composer. He has developed the playing techniques of the bass.
Life and work
His statements made Dresser at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied double bass with Bertram Turetzky, then with Franco Petracchi. During his training, he played with musicians such as David Murray and Arthur Blythe. Mark Dresser worked since 1972 both in solo projects and in various ensembles in the New York jazz scene. He played ten years in the Anthony Braxton Quartet and in many other formations, such as Don Cherry, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway ( Demon Chaser 1993) or John Zorn. My projects included the band " Green Force " (with Dave Douglas ) and the Mark Dresser Trio, with whom he recorded music for the surrealist Luis Buñuel Salvador Dali film Un Chien Andalou. He also played 1993, a soundtrack album for the early expressionist silent film classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari one. In addition, Dresser worked with the Arcado String Trio and the "Double Trio" formed from this and the trio you Clarinettes together.
For the Paris Banliues Bleues Festival, he played one of his composition Bosnia, which later appeared on "Double Trio" under the title Green Dolphy Street on Enja. With the Arcado String Trio and the WDR Big Band in 1991, he took his composition For Not the Law on ( published by JMT under the title For Three Strings and Orchestra ). 1992 composed and performed the title Armadillo Mark Dresser, taken with the Arcado String Trio and the WDR Big Band Cologne. In 1995 the composition The Banquet, a Double Concerto for various flutes and bass with string quartet and the Swiss flutist Matthias Ziegler, who commissioned the work. The album Invocation of 1995 ( released on the Knitting Factory Works label) contains a lengthy bass solo of Dresser.
In later years he played with Eric Watson, Ed Thigpen and Bennie Wallace in Full Metal Quartet; He also worked on various projects with musicians such as Andrew Cyrille / Marty Ehrlich, Gerry Hemingway, Susie Ibarra, Ray Anderson, Roswell Rudd, Mat Maneri, Amir ElSaffar, Achim Kaufmann / Harris Eisenstadt and Vinny Golia.
Importance
Dresser has playing techniques such as the double glissando, the hammering with his left hand, which can resonate the strings section above the tapped location and stroking sul ponticello, ie, " considerably refined and made from a compositional point of view calculable. " in a harmonically rich sheet position near the bridge Thus arose in combination with appropriately sensitive electrical amplification Martin Kunzler saying that "a multi phones concept based on the isolation and contouring and combination of overtones. " Here tried it " the traditional role of the double bass, timekeeping and harmonic foundation with the largest possible sound " with the game's avant-garde to combine - " with markings that sometimes remind modern translated Mingus, or walking sections with drivendem focus just before the Time and adventurous Drops. "