Isla Eckinger - Isla's Island (2019)

Isla Eckinger, born 1939 in Dornach near Basel, Switzerland, is not a "modern" or "old-fashioned" musician. He's a man beyond fashion.

Since he switched from his ancestral instrument, the trombone, to the double bass in the early sixties, he has quickly become one of the most sought-after partners of European musicians such as Dusko Goykovich, George Gruntz, Joe Haider, Stephane Grapelli as well as Waldron, Buck Clayton and many others.

Eckinger always insisted on his warm, singing, swinging, human and space-creating bass playing, which ambitious newcomers like to smile at as "mainstream".