This San Francisco musician grew up in a musical family and played trumpet before turning his attention to jazz and being seduced by the sound of the double bass. In his late teens, he got to play ...
Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke sits at the center of the room, six young musicians focused on him ... out a melody on the thick strings of his double bass. “Love that, love that,” says pianist ...
Sturm currently serves as the Hixson Lied Professor of Double Bass and chair of the String and Jazz areas at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He also is director of the Meadowlark Music Festival.
He also composed the novelty hit Grandad (1970) for Clive Dunn, set John Betjeman’s poetry to music with the drummer Peter Boita for the album Poetry in Motion, and performed the famous four-string ...