Archive for November, 2007
Any post now printable from DoubleBassBlog.org
Yazan: Jason | 30 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging
Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post. Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger set-up. Check it out–it’s really slick. BTW, I’m in [...]
Messing with the trumpets is fun
Yazan: Jason | 30 November 2007 | 7 Comments
Categories: bass humor, crazy gig stories, humor
I was thinking recently about a funny and masterful prank pulled by the principal bass of a very high-quality orchestra while performing Mahler’s First Symphony several years ago. Now, part of this piece utilizes offstage trumpets, and this particular prank revolved around these musicians. Mahler was a big fan of the offstage instrumental sound, as [...]
Bass shot of the day
Yazan: Jason | 30 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
Double Bass Originally uploaded by krakow81 Here’s a great shot of George Lyle playing double bass with the Tight Meat Trio, a free jazz ensemble, at the Hive, GUU, Glasgow, on Saturday 24th, February 2007.
The Heart of an Orchestra Contractor
Yazan: Jason | 29 November 2007 | No Comments
Categories: music news
My recent interview with the always entertaining and anecdote-filled Justin Locke prompted me to poke around his site in search of more amusing tales. There, I found this post about ways in which musicians woefully misrepresent themselves to orchestra contractors. As a performer-turned-contractor, Justin now finds himself on the other end of the hiring spectrum, [...]
Reconstructing the Bass Blog!
Yazan: Jason | 29 November 2007 | 2 Comments
Categories: blogging
People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different! I finally made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which means two things: There is a huge [...]
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