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Archive for June, 2007

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Yazan: Jason | 29 June 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: technology

I stumbled upon a fascinating essay recently through Dana Boyd’s blog about how class differences manifest themselves in whether a teen chooses to use Facebook or MySpace. In it, she hypothesizes that the ‘preps’ go for Facebook while the counter-culture types go for MySpace. This is a very interesting essay (warning: some mild language), and [...]

Audition – El Paso Symphony Assistant Principal Bass and Section Bass

Yazan: Jason | 29 June 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: auditions, bass, student resources

El Paso Symphony bassist Jesus Apodaca alerted me to an upcoming audition for both assistant principal bass and section bass for the El Paso Symphony. Per service pay is approximately $70 per service (section) for the upcoming season. Visit the El Paso Symphony website at www.epso.org to learn more about these positions. The El Paso [...]

Bass shot of the day

Yazan: Jason | 29 June 2007 | 4 Comments
Categories: bass, jazz bass playing, photography

The great Charles Mingus playing with the bow at a jazz festival. Note the lion’s head scroll on this bass. Anyone know who made this bass? Related Posts: Christian McBride video Ray Brown video Charlie Haden video Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens Previous bass shots of the day – 1 2 3 4 5 [...]

Gary Karr plays Paul Mero’s Pitzi-Cats

Yazan: Jason | 29 June 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

Gary Karr’s concert performances often took camp to a new level, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than in this video of Paul Mero’s Pitzi-Cats: Related Posts: Gary Karr plays Paganini Moses Fantasy Gary Karr plays Van Goens Scherzo Gary Karr plays Rachmaninoff Vocalise subscribe to the blog – subscribe to bass videos only

Basses in jazz art paintings from Ann deLorge

Yazan: Jason | 28 June 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, jazz bass playing

Bassist and PlayJazzNow.com founder Bill Harrison just started a blog called Jazz Underneath, and it is already turning into quite a resource. One of his recent posts highlights beautiful jazz-themed paintings by New Orleans painter Ann deLorge. The work to the left is called Jazz in Red. Visit Bill’s blog post for more of these [...]