Archive for July, 2007

Virtual Master Class Track – Beethoven 9 Recitative – Candidate 7

Yazan: Jason | 30 July 2007 | 6 Comments
Categories: bass, education, student resources, VMC tracks

Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of the Beethoven 9 recitative. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player. Sometimes these players take 10-20 seconds to load, so give it a little time to play if it [...]

Bass shot of the day – Reuben Rogers

Yazan: Jason | 30 July 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, photography

Here’s another great shot of Reuben Rogers, bassist for the Joshua Redman Trio, in action at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007: Related Posts: Reuben Rogers with the Joshua Redman Trio Playing gut strings on the Old Crow Medicine Show Bass shot of the day – Jazz & Wine Guy Tuneh and Miloslav Gajdos [...]

Excerpt of Murray "Doc" Solomon’s Sentimental Bossa

Yazan: Jason | 30 July 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

The Singapore bass ensemble d’Bassists just put out a new video featuring an excerpt of Murray “Doc” Solomon’s Sentimental Bossa. Check out more content from this bass ensemble at their great website. Links to all of the other d’Bassists videos on this blog are located below the video. Related Posts: Blues-Style by Tony Osbourne – [...]

Last week’s poll results plus this week’s poll question

Yazan: Jason | 30 July 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging

The poll results about the educational background of readers are in for last week, and here are the results: not yet in high school 2 (2%) high school 13 (15%) college undergraduate – non-music 8 (9%) college undergraduate – music 26 (30%) masters degree – non-music 8 (9%) masters degree – music 22 (25%) doctoral [...]

The comments for Guy Tuneh continue to pour in

Yazan: Jason | 30 July 2007 | 8 Comments
Categories: bass, podcasting

I’d like to thank all of the people who have written in with their positive comments about Guy Tuneh. Every day we continue to get even more comments coming in, and it is obvious that hearing him play and speak is really affecting people. I’ll be looking forward to putting out the rest of this [...]

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