On An Overgrown Path’s Bob Shingleton discusses blogging on video

On An Overgrown Path is perhaps the best example of how classical music blogging is moving ahead of traditional journalistic outlets. Bob Shingleton has become one of the leading voices in the world of classical music journalism, and he is a prime example of how the...

Getting a good sound – post from John Floeter

Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to...

New poll on the blog

I’m putting up a new poll on the blog each week–it’s located in the sidebar just below the Contrabass Conversations and Twitter widgets. You can vote for more than one option on these polls, and they actually help me to know who’s reading and...

Matt Wengerd and Wired Magazine

Matt Wengerd (104 Weeks) just put up a post highlighting a really cool project that Wired Magazine recently did for its subscribers. When he got home from the Aebersold Jazz Camp, this was what he found in the pile of accumulated mail:That’s Matt smack dab on...

More train travel woes from Joe Lewis

Following up on yesterday’s story about taking a bass on a train, Joe Lewis related some of his own tales about annoying train travel on a recent post on his blog San Bei Ji. Some of the lines he has often heard include:Is that a body in there?Is that your...