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Dale Black

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About Me

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Cool SlideshowsGreetings, and thank you for visiting my page. My name is Dale Black and as you can see I am a bassist and have been playing this beautiful instrument for 15 years now. I fell in love with it at the age of 10 prior to that at the age of 7 i played clarinet studying from one of the best reed players in the midwest who was known by many simply as Mr. Morgan. It was under him that I learned to read music and began learning different styles of music. I then moved to upright bass in 4th grade and the rest is history. The track you hear is an old demo of mine but im working on some more studio and live stuff so stay tuned for that.Ive been blessed to play with likes of Lashaun Pace, Duranice Pace, Dalon Collins(Kirk Franklin & Family), Karen Clark-Sheard, the late Dirk Chaney, (Preachers Wife), Kierra Sheard , Beverly Crawford, Sonday and others. God has blessed me with this gift to play music and play it in order to bless and heal others, and for that im thankful. MyGen Profile Generator

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This is me doing what i love. My calling, purpose, dharma, gift, whatever you want to call it. Its the thing i do best and love with the utmost respect for the art.gospelchops
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Music:

These are some of the albums that have inspired my playing and thinking as a musician in one way or another from my early days to now.

The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
Spirits
Journey to the One
Magic Touch
Space Is the Place

Escalay: The Water Wheel
Interstellar Space
Meditations
Blues and the Soulful Truth
Music of Nubia

Love Stories
Inner Urge
Kenny Kirkland
Live
Karma

God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation
I Heard You Twice the First Time
Lost and Found
Elevation
Diz 'N Bird at Carnegie Hall

Powerlight
That's the Way of the World
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
Con Alma
East River Drive

I Wanna Play for You
At the Movies
Word of Mouth Revisited
Back on the Block
The Original Jam Sesssions 1969

Musicology
Diamonds and Pearls
The Score
Chucho Valdes Presenta: Lo Mejor de la Timba Cuban, Vol. 2
Virtuoso

Back at One
I Remember You
Superhero
Word of Mouth
Jaco Pastorius

Live from the 9:30 Club
Definition of a Band
Try Me Again
Fuego
Tales
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Among Friends
Future Shock
Head Hunters
Thirteen Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology
School Days

The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 1
If This Bass Could Only Talk
Stanley Clarke
Romantic Warrior
Black Market

Heavy Weather
Giant Steps
Doo-Bop
Monk's Dream
The Ultimate Blue Train

One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note
Innervisions
Layers
Thembi
Strength

Silver Rain
Live & More
A Show of Hands
Indecent Proposal
Gettin' to It

Kind of Blue
New Congo Square, Vol. 3
Low Blow
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Movies:



Jazz - A Film By Ken Burns
Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Mo' Better Blues
Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002
Dennis Chambers: Serious Moves

Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius
Victor Wooten - Live at Bass Day '98 DVD
The Great White Hype
Glory
Amistad

The Matrix
Flight of the Intruder
Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)
Boyz 'N the Hood
Get on the Bus

When We Were Kings
Crooklyn
Spaceballs
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Television:

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Books:



Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Choice of Weapons (Borealis Books)
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization (Exploding the Myths) powered by frazy.com

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My Blog

Runaway ipod, Paris and other stuff going on

Finally back to working on the album, this time with some awesome LA musicians! Performing in Paris this week pray for a brotha. I lost my beloved ipod!!! How do you lose an ipod???? I feel like an id...
Posted by Dale Black on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:54:00 PST

Just thinking

As i creep closer and closer to the ripe ol age of 27 im  discovering and appreciating things about life that i never would have expected to so soon. So fast that im tryi...
Posted by Dale Black on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:51:00 PST

One of the most beautiful songs Ive ever heard

I listen to all kinds of music but I’m a sucker for ballads and just plain ol beautiful music that evokes feelings of love and compassion in the listener regardles of the genre. I have to say ph...
Posted by Dale Black on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:25:00 PST

Musics Healing Power

Sound can affect the structure of water and further exploration of its effects can influence health care because about 60 percent of the human body is made up of water. Deepak Chopra
Posted by Dale Black on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:48:00 PST

Interview with Gospelbasslines.com

Check me out in Gospelbasslines.com they have alot of  useful information on bass instruction as well.
Posted by Dale Black on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:06:00 PST

Technique vs. Music

OK ima preach alittle but. To all the cats who send me letters and questions i say keep doing your thing, keep your head up and stay real to your music and yourslef. Dont play just for the money ...
Posted by Dale Black on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Gospel Chops video

Whats up yall. Gospel chops did a feauture on me in their bass section. Check it out! Its an honor to be amongst the myriad of skilled players on there. Anyway check it out and feel free to&...
Posted by Dale Black on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:57:00 PST