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Archive for January, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-31

Yazan: | 31 January 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Hanging out with Courtney and watching TiVo after a long (but fun!) day of Elgin Symphony. # Doing some morning blogging. I’ve got a full line-up of bass activities today. # Both cats are helping me podcast at the moment. # Dreading my afternoon commute – the snow’s coming down pretty hard right now. #

Compendium of Jazz Quotes – Jaco Pastorius

Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2008 | No Comments
Categories: jazz, jazz bass playing

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog). He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic. Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here. Here are some selected quotes from [...]

Invitation to Hear the Chicago Bass Ensemble at NIU

Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, events

This is a guest post from bassist John Floeter – johnfloeterbassstudio.blogspot.com ____________ The Chicago Bass Ensemble will be performing in DeKalb at Northern Illinois University as the featured artists for the All-School Convocation at 11am on February 14th,2008. This will essentially be a 50 minute concert with a minimal amount of lecture. Although it is [...]

Dissecting opera repertoire with John Grillo

Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2008 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, education, podcasting, student resources

Double bassist and classical music blogger John Grillo put out a recent post on his blog highlighting his upcoming performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto with Opera New Jersey.  John writes: I look forward to playing Rigoletto again.  This is my second time tackling this mighty work.  It is really an outstanding piece of art with many [...]

The virtuosity of Victor Wooten – video

Yazan: Jason | 31 January 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, electric bass, videos

OK–he’s not an upright bass player. But the indisputable awesomeness of the Woot certainly warrants attention here at doublebassblog.org. He’s one of the most popular electric bassists of all time, and rightly so–his inventiveness, creativity, and virtuosity shine through in everything that he plays. Go Victor!