Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Bertram Turetzky, François Rabbath, Barry Guy, Karl E. H. Seigfried, Svante Henryson, Giovanni Bottesini, Homer Mensch, Paul W. Whear, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Gary Karr, Anton Torello, Gerald Drucker, Tim Cobb, Johann Joseph Abert, Mark Dresser, Michael Benjamin Nigrin, Jeff Bradetich, Joëlle Léandre, Warren Benfield, Hal Robinson, Oscar Zimmerman, Jon Deak, Allan von Schenkel, List of contemporary classical double bass players, Orin O'Brien, Franz Simandl, Joel Quarrington, Donald Palma, Frank Proto, Ludwig Manoly, Don Harper, Paul Ellison, Serge Ngando, Antonio Scontrino, Max Dimoff, London Double Bass Ensemble, Albert Laszlo, Jorma Katrama, Douglas Sommer, Franco Petracchi, Teppo Hauta-aho, List of historical classical double bass players. Excerpt: Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947, in London) is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe. He also taught at Guildhall School of Music. Born in London, Guy came to the fore as an improvising bassist as a member of a trio with pianist Howard Riley and drummer Tony Oxley (Witherden, 1969). He also became an occasional member of John Stevens' ensembles in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. In the early 1970s, he was a member of the influential free improvisation group Iskra 1903 with Derek Bailey and trombonist Paul Rutherford (a project revived in the late 1970s, with violinist Philipp Wachsmann replacing Bailey). He also formed a long-standing partnership with saxophonist Evan Parker, which led to a trio with drummer Paul Lytton which became one of the best-known and most widely-travelled free-improvising groups of the 1980s and 1990s. He was briefly a member of the Michael Nyman Band in the 1980s, performing on the soundtrack of The Draughtsman's Contract. Guy's interests in improvisation and formal composition received their grandest form in the London Jazz Composers Orchestra. Originally formed to perform Guy's composition Ode in 1974 (released as a 2-LP set on Incus and later, in expanded form, as a 2-CD set on Intakt), it became one of the great large-scale European improvising ensembles. Early documentation is spotty - the only other recording from its early years is Stringer (FMP, now available on Intakt paired with the later "Study II") - but beginning in the late 1980s the Swiss label Intakt set out to document the band more thoroughly. The result was a series of ambitious, album-length compositions designed to give all the players in the band maximum opportunity for expression while still preserving a rigorous sense of form: Zurich Concerts, Harmos, Double Tr