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International Society of Bassists manager Madeleine Crouch recently sent out the following information regarding jazz bassist Dennis Irwin:
Jazz icon Dennis Irwin, bassist with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band) for more than 20 years, and sideman with Art Blakey, Joe Lovano and John Scofield (among many others), has become very [...]

I’m a little late with this news, but the most recent Bass Musician Magazine has been released (February/March 2008 Edition). I am a staff writer for this publication, and my contribution for this issue features Peter Seymour and his band PROJECT. You can learn more about this cool ensemble by visiting [...]

Xbass.org, the online double bass magazine created by members of the fabulous Bass Gang (hear excerpts from this group on Contrabass Conversations episode 23) just did a fantastic new redesign of their site. This site is a tremendous resource for bass players everywhere. In many respects, it has a lot of similarities to [...]

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass.  Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.
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It’s Day 5 of our South Carolina Residency, and I’m getting deep into my schedule of concerts, classes, and outreach [...]

Contrabass Conversations frequent collaborator and classicalmusicnews.tv blogger John Grillo continues his Art of the Deficit series this week with a post examining the role that the National Endowment for the Arts plays in the budgets of many symphony orchestras.  John went to a grant workshop for the NEA in 2007 and left with some new [...]

The Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop will be held March 6-9, 2008 at Arizona State University in Tuscon, Arizona.  This festival will feature clinicians Rob Kassonger (also a former Contrabass Conversations guest), Catalin Rotaru, Rufus Reid, Joe DiBartolo, Miloslav Jelinek,, and Patrick Neher.
From the Arizona Bass Players website:
The Festival is open to the [...]

My student Daniel Chmielinski, in addition to being a very talented bassist, runs the car enthusiast site carsleuth.net, and he started a recent vlog episode with a video commercial that he put together for Contrabass Conversations.  Check it out!

Here is audition information for February 2008 posted every month on doublebassblog.org by Phillip W. Serna
For many more auditions, also visit http://www.afm.org/ for information on the auditions below:
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
DOUBLE BASS - Section Double
Bass (1 Position)
Resume Date - Postmarked no
later than April 1, 2008
Audition Date - June 8-10,
2008
Starting Date - Employment
may begin as soon as [...]

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass.  Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.
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Hello all – first of all, I’m excited to be here on the big bass blog and looking forward to [...]

 

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This third installment of my Story Time series is an audio rendition of my story  Bugs Bunny is my Mortal Enemy from 2007. Stay tuned for a video version of this in the near future, and be sure to visit the Contrabass Conversations Story Time page for the other audio and video episodes in [...]