Description

A Salsa Encore for Double Bass, Quartet The Drums Must Never Stop! is a fun and accessible piece, rich in melodic and rhythmic invention, and …ideal for any audience or occasion.
Instantly appealing, the quartet offers solo possibilities for each bassist and an opportunity for the intermediate quartet to feel the groove. ” As a professional jazz pianist for the last 40 years, something I do as a hobby really, I’ve noticed that the audience always gets really evoked when we kick a Montuna/Salsa/Samba groove.
It occurred to me in writing this salsa encore for my friend David Heyes that the furthest thing from the minds of the audience at a double bass recital would be the inclusion of a Latin groove, high intensity work at the end. So I wrote this work as a little ‘surprise package’.
The joke which inspired the title speaks to the great humour I’ve always found with double bass players. They take themselves and their music seriously but are always able to laugh and take great joy in the process – not always the case with instrumentalists who play instruments in the higher registers!”
[Eric Funk / Montana, USA]