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This week featured the second part of This Crazy Business, my new series about life as a working musician. Unlike Road Warrior Without an Expense Account (which is about being a freelance musician), this series is about life as a musician in general.
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This week we are wrapping up our interview with double bass virtuoso François Rabbath. You can hear the previous sections of this interview on episode 16 and episode 22 of the podcast.
We will also be featuring in interesting new twist in Contrabass Conversations interviews today—the Lyric Opera’s Andy Anderson (a regular collaborator on [...]

I’d like to thanks everyone for the great feedback on last week’s podcast episode with Guy Tuneh! Expect to hear the rest of this interview very soon. We will be wrapping up our interview with François Rabbath this week and featuring music for bass and ukulele by Seattle-area bassist Matt Weiner. Ukulele [...]

I’d like to let readers now that Contrabass Conversations will be a part of Bass Musician Magazine, a bi-monthly virtual publication (free to subscribe) debuting this August. This online magazine has a huge amount of potential, and I am excited to see how it develops. Even though it hasn’t launched yet, you can [...]

In a sublime example of everything that is wrong with the Recording Industry Association of America, Universal Music has demanded that a mother take down a 29-second video of her toddler dancing while Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy plays in the background. Apparently, the use of this song (playing on a radio in the kitchen) [...]

Philanthropic organizations in Chicago have been organizing themselves in a very interesting way when it comes to providing support for jazz, creating the Chicago Jazz Partnership in an effort to draw in new audiences for this music and find innovative ways to support the art form. Chicago Tribune arts critic Howard Reich reports:
Two years [...]

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Bill Harrison’s post Why I’m a jazz bass player has sparked some very interesting comments, including one from Contrabass Conversations guest Eric Hochberg. Check out the comments here.
Also, thanks so much for the great feedback on This Crazy Business Part 2 - Full-TimeLoyalty at Part-Time Rates!

University of Arizona bass professor Patrick Neher recently asked me to pass the following information along on the blog:
Arizona Bass Players is incorporating and working with the three major universities in Arizona to present the third annual Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop, to be held March 6-9, 2008, at ASU School of Music, [...]

Readers of the blog may have noticed this already, but we have had a huge amount of activity in the comments about the Guy Tuneh podcast episodes. We’ve had well over 100 comments on the various episodes featuring Guy Tuneh, and hearing from people who have been inspired by this great artist is really [...]