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Archive for September, 2007

Vito Liuzzi performs Nino Rota’s Divertemento Concertante (mvt 2 and 3)

Yazan: Jason | 27 September 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi left some great comments on the blog recently, pointing to a video of the second and third movements of the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota. I had originally blogged about this back in April of 2007. Click here to check out the first part of this great performance by Nino, and [...]

Mystery Rosin – what is this stuff?

Yazan: Jason | 27 September 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass

Contrabass Conversations listener and double bassist Greg Sowell wrote in recently with a very interesting dilemma, wondering if he has stumbled across a very old cake of Oak Bass Rosin. He writes: I love the show. Its an excellent source for all us Bass Geeks out here. I am a double bassist reborn from years [...]

The Grinding Wheel – post from Michael Hovnanian

Yazan: Jason | 27 September 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass humor, blogging

The Chicago Symphony is on tour at the moment, and I’m holding off on releasing any additional material for Contrabass Conversations from CSO bass section members Michael Hovnanian, Rob Kassinger, or Brad Opland until they get back. It’s always better to put podcast episodes out when the featured guest is around to appreciate it! It’s [...]

Getting married in paradise

Yazan: Jason | 26 September 2007 | 4 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

I got married one month ago today on the beautiful island of Kauai, and I realized that, apart from some wacky animated photos, I never put up any pictures of the wedding here on the blog.  I’ve got a ton of them (as well as a few thousand other photos from our honeymoon), so here [...]

Great post on how to assemble a teaching studio from Phillip Serna

Yazan: Jason | 26 September 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Readers could easily have missed double bassist Phillip Serna’s great post yesterday on double bass private studio teaching amidst the glut of posts we’ve put out this week.  In this post, Phillip details the steps he went through in establishing himself as a full-time double bass studio teacher in the Chicago suburbs. If one is [...]