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Mark Dresser Quintet Expect a night of dazzling aural adventure when San Diego contrabass great Mark Dresser is joined by a stellar band featuring the superb flutist Nicole Mitchell, rising piano phenom Joshua White and trombonist Michael Dessen.
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There was a sense of coronation as one witnessed her confident next-generation contrabass playing side by side with McBride’s electric bass guitar.
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Origin and Etymology of contrabass
Italian contrabbasso, from contra- + basso bass
Definition of contrabass
: pitched lower than a bass instrument of the same type
- a contrabass clarinet
First Known Use of contrabass
1834
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