Robert Black (bassist)

Person, US, United States

Releases

Albums

=> 1994 State of the Bass
=> 1996 Ryoanji
=> 2002 Look She Said (Complete Works for Bass)
=> 2007 The Works for Double Bass
=> 2011 Modern American Bass
=> 2017 Northern Lights
=> 2017 Possessed
=> 2019 The Not-Doings of an Insomniac: Bass Partita and Poetry
=> 2023 Darkness and Scattered Light

EPs

=> 2020 Live @ Colorado Public Radio

Relations

member of band

=> 🧑 Bang on a Can All-Stars

member of band

=> 🧑 Basso Bongo

member of band

=> 🧑 The Orchestra of Excited Strings

member of band

=> 🧑 June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra

1995-06-22 instrument

=> 🎶 Ryoanji

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 450 Tuskegee Airmen

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Basquiat

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Blinky Blanky Blokoe

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Credits

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Despite a Barrage

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene I

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene II

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene III

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene IV

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene V

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Eugene VI

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Explanation

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Finally in 1941

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Fortunately

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Fyodorovich

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Integrity

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Show Him Some Lub

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Silver Wings

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Spin

2004-12-16 – 2006-01-18 instrument

=> 🎶 You Can Fly

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 59 1/2" for a String Player

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Arioso and Etude: Arioso

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Arioso and Etude: Etude

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Beast

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 For Double Bass Alone: Allegro ritmico

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 For Double Bass Alone: Moderato

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 For Double Bass Alone: Rubato

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Lyric Piece for Contrabass and Piano

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Monody II

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Movement for Double Bass and Piano

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Bass Alone: Meditative

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Bass Alone: Recitative and March

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Bass Alone: With Relaxed Motion

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Double Bass and Piano: Adagio

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Double Bass and Piano: Con moto

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonata for Double Bass and Piano: Scherzo

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonatina: Allegro ma non troppo

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonatina: Andante

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Sonatina: Poco lento ma ben ritmato

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Suite for Bass and Piano: Allegro moderato

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Suite for Bass and Piano: Moderato con moto

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Suite for Bass and Piano: Not Too Slow

2006-08-24 – 2006-08-25 instrument

=> 🎶 Valentine

2012-11-03 instrument

=> 🎶 4:33

2012-11-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Ridgeway

2012-11-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Worker's Union

2016-08-06 – 2016-08-07 instrument

=> 🎶 Sweet May Again

instrument

=> 🎶 2x5: I. Fast

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=> 🎶 2x5: II. Slow

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=> 🎶 2x5: III. Fast

instrument

=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: I. An Especially Fine Dress Rag

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: II. Amalia, Hanging in a Painting

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: IV. Swallow the Neck of the Guest Who Hisses When You Pass

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: IX. Shamefaced Smiles and the Back of Frailty

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: V. Amalia's Secret (Modeled After the One for Your Parents)

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: VI. The Smallest Glimmer Disturbs Them

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: VII. A Weak Little Gentleman, Gazing, Too Dumb to Wonder

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: VIII. The Letter Opened, The Bottle Broken

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=> 🎶 Amalia's Secret: X. All Debts Owed Paid, She'd Survive This Too

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=> 🎶 Amok! 1

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=> 🎶 Amok! 2

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=> 🎶 Amok! 3

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=> 🎶 Amok! 4

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=> 🎶 Amok! 5

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=> 🎶 Amok! 6

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=> 🎶 Androgyne, Mon Amour

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=> 🎶 Arapua

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

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=> 🎶 art is self-alteration is Cage is...

instrument

=> 🎶 Big and Cheap

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=> 🎶 Composed Improvisations for Steinberger Bass Guitar and Snare Drum

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=> 🎶 Dark as a Dungeon

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=> 🎶 Dharana

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=> 🎶 Dharana

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=> 🎶 Et maintenant c’est à vous de jouer…

instrument

=> 🎶 Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass

instrument

=> 🎶 Jasper: I

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=> 🎶 Jasper: II

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=> 🎶 Jasper: III

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=> 🎶 Jasper: IV

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=> 🎶 Ko-Tha “Three Dances of Shiva”: I.

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=> 🎶 Ko-Tha “Three Dances of Shiva”: II.

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=> 🎶 Ko-Tha “Three Dances of Shiva”: III.

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=> 🎶 Kshara: I.

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=> 🎶 Kshara: II.

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=> 🎶 Kshara: III.

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=> 🎶 Lizard Belly Moon

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=> 🎶 Look She Said: I

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=> 🎶 Look She Said: II

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=> 🎶 Look She Said: III

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=> 🎶 Look She Said: IV

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=> 🎶 Look She Said: V

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=> 🎶 Maknongon

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=> 🎶 Mantram

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=> 🎶 Mirrors

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=> 🎶 Mirrors

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=> 🎶 Mirrors

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=> 🎶 Nuits: I. C’est bien la nuit

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=> 🎶 Nuits: II. Le Reveil profond

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=> 🎶 Okanagon

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=> 🎶 Piece no. 1 for Double Bass and Tape

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=> 🎶 Prelude to Endgame

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=> 🎶 Prelude to Endgame

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=> 🎶 Radio Sonata

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=> 🎶 String Bass Exercise Out of "Bandiera rossa": I

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=> 🎶 String Bass Exercise Out of "Bandiera rossa": II

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=> 🎶 String Bass Exercise Out of "Bandiera rossa": III

instrument

=> 🎶 Stronghold, part 1

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=> 🎶 Stronghold, part 2

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=> 🎶 The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory

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=> 🎶 The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory: Part II

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement I - Not Dreaming

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement II - Not Tasting

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement III - Not Smelling

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement IV - Not Hearing

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement V - Not Seeing

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement VI - Not Touching

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=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Partita for Solo Double Bass: Movement VII - Not Beginning, Not Ending

instrument

=> 🎶 The Seasons: Vermont Winter (excerpt)

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=> 🎶 Trio

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=> 🎶 Two Bits

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=> 🎶 Two in the Hand

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=> 🎶 Untitled: I

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=> 🎶 Untitled: II

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=> 🎶 Untitled: III

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Babel

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: I Wonder How Many People in This City

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Neighborhood

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Shine, Shine

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Small Town

vocal

=> 🎶 The Not Doings of an Insomniac: Telephone Song

instrument

=> 💿 More Field Recordings

instrument

=> 💿 Renegade Heaven

discogs

=> https://www.discogs.com/artist/550261

official homepage

=> http://www.robertblack.org/

other databases

=> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no92019613

other databases

=> https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14156362r

other databases

=> https://d-nb.info/gnd/133805921

other databases

=> http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hz4bhh

other databases

=> https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no92019613

songkick

=> https://www.songkick.com/artists/413929

VIAF

=> http://viaf.org/viaf/8587026

wikidata

=> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7342124

commissioned

=> 🎼 Mirrors

composer

=> 🎼 Big and Cheap

composer

=> 🎼 Trio

composer

=> 🎼 Two in the Hand

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