ISB: Dear Madeleine

You will want to buy the new CD from ISB. Dear Madeleine, a love letter from the world’s greatest bassists to Madeleine Crouch, the longtime executive director of the International Society of Bassists (ISB) in the form of a crowd-sourced fundraiser for the organization. These are the monsters of the instrument, presenting a collection ranging over the spectrum of the expressive possibilities of the bass. Dear Madeleine should be required listening for every student of the instrument and in every music history and orchestration course.What an assemblage of artists! What a smorgasbord of styles!An instant collector’s item, Dear Madeleine features as performers and often composers:• Intrepid jazz masters such as John Clayton, Ron Carter, Rufus Reid, Lynn Seaton, Tom Knific, Chris Kosky, Todd Coolman, Alan Lewine and Jim Ferguson;• Superb classical maestros David Murray, Jeff Bradetich, Thierry Barbé and ISB founder Gary Karr;• Broadminded new music specialists Mark Dresser and Michael Moo