Bertram Turetzky专辑介绍：by Eugene ChadbourneMost bassists would agree that two hands represent a good start for work such as this, meaning basically the life of the artist. On one hand, anyone who has ever carried a contrabass around probably wouldn't question the need for a performer to go solo -- after all, who needs more instruments than this? On the other hand, the bassist's traditional role as part of a universe of accompaniment has perhaps helped set in motion the fascinating whirlwind of collaborative gestures that have taken place in the carefully thought-out solo opus of Bertram Turetzky. He overdubbed himself back in the Finnadar days when Charles Mingus himself was called in to give the composer's thumbs-up to a multi-tracked version of "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." Turetzky has also created the illusion of two people on-stage at once simply by using his own multi-dimensional voice in a dialogue with his rich, full-blooded bass tones,...