{"id":2115,"date":"2020-02-02T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2020-02-02T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:04:06","slug":"beyond-the-spotlight-episode-5-ross-kratter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/02\/beyond-the-spotlight-episode-5-ross-kratter\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Spotlight &#8211; Episode 5: Ross Kratter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2117\" src=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-005-480x480-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Ross Kratter is a bass player, tuba player, and composer based in New York. He is equally at home on string bass and electric bass, both fretted and fretless, 4, 5, and 6 string, as well as on tuba. While primarily known as a jazz musician, he is equally comfortable in any and all styles of music.<\/p>\n<p>Ross has performed with such notable and varied artists as Joshua Redman, the Drifters, Bob Franceschini, Victor Wooten, Bob Reynolds, Alex Sipiagin, and many more. He was the bass player on the 2019-2020 First National Tour of Bandstand the Musical, the 2018 national tour of A Charlie Brown Christmas Live, and the 2016-2017 national tour of FAME the Musical. He has also served as a Musical Director for P&amp;O Cruises and Queen\u2019s Room Orchestra Leader for Cunard Line.<\/p>\n<p>Kratter released his debut album &#8220;It\u2019s Time&#8221; with his working quartet in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Ross:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosskratter.com\">https:\/\/www.rosskratter.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/rosskratter\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/rosskratter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/rosskratterjazzorchestra\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/rosskratterjazzorchestra<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rosskratter\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rosskratter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rosskrattermusic\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rosskrattermusic<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-2497906\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/754013\/2497906-ep-005-ross-kratter-freelance-bassist-and-composer-arranger.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-2497906&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nOr, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcast, TuneIn, or wherever fine podcasts are streamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Kratter is a bass player, tuba player, and composer based in New York. He is equally at home on string bass and electric bass, both fretted and fretless, 4, 5, and 6 string, as well as on tuba. While primarily known as a jazz musician, he is equally comfortable in any and all styles of music. Ross has performed<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/02\/beyond-the-spotlight-episode-5-ross-kratter\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond the Spotlight &#8211; Episode 5: Ross Kratter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,167,127,130,170,168,171,128,35,131],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arranger","tag-bandstand","tag-bass","tag-bassist","tag-big-band","tag-composer","tag-jazz","tag-pit-orchestra","tag-tour","tag-upright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}