Archive for March 2008
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More Choice Quotes from Jerky Bass Teachers
After finishing a performance in a master class, the student looks up, wide-eyed and expectant, at the teacher, expecting some sage advice or pearls of wisdom.
The teacher opens his mouth and says:
"You have two problems……your left hand and your right hand!"
What wisdom!
Barrie Kolstein featured on Contrabass Conversations this weekend
We’re featuring Barrie Kolstein on Contrabass Conversations this week. One of the most prominent and influential figures in the double bass community, Barrie was a real treat to interview, and co-host John Grillo and I really had a blast chatting with him. In this interview, Barrie discusses his father Samuel Kolstein and [...]
How people use doublebassblog.org
Actually, this post could quite easily be framed as a question rather than a statement: how do you, the reader, use, access, and derive value from this site? Though I’ve posed this question on polls in the site (and have gotten very interesting results), readership continues to grow by leaps and bounds each month, [...]
Bass shot of the day - real bass reflections
Some basses come with built-in spy cameras:
Photo Credit: Karen McAllister
Dreaming of fun in the sun
The nasty cold and never ending snowstorms seem to have finally ebbed for this season (knock on wood!). What a winter! I seem to have become fixated on the bad weather this season, and for good reason!
Download any individual CBC orchestra excerpt track
In 2007, double bassist and blogger John Grillo and created the extremely popular orchestral excerpt breakdown series for the Contrabass Conversations podcast network. This series includes performances of John playing much of the double bass orchestral audition repertoire, with commentary about each specific excerpt preceding each performance.
We’ve now made available for download any [...]
Ben Allison performs in Chicago
Jazz bassist Ben Allison will be in Chicago performing at both the Green Mill and the Chicago Cultural Center this weekend. Details follow. Check out one of these performances if you can!
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MARCH 13 - CHICAGO, ILChicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater78 East Washington StreetConcert at 7 PMInfo: 312-744-6630Admission: Freewww.cityofchicago.org/Tourism/CulturalCenterMARCH 14 & 15 - CHICAGO, ILGreen [...]
Panic on the Podium
When you think about it, isn’t it amazing that a group of musicians can ever play together in a symphonic setting? Honestly, having all those different instruments, from tuba to tympani, with all those methods of sound production, from blowing to plucking, situated across either a vast resonant expanse of stage or a subterranean [...]
Exploring Chamber Music 3: Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D Major
Welcome to Exploring Chamber Music with Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. This Contrabass Conversations special series highlights chamber music that includes the double bass. Learn more about the Chicago Chamber Musicians by visiting www.chicagochambermusic.org.
We’d like to extend special thanks to both Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians for making this series possible. [...]
Twitter in plain English
I am a big fan of Twitter, putting up daily posts about whatever I’m busy doing. I think of my Twitter account (twitter.com/jasonheath) as my personal blog, with doublebassblog.org and artsaddict.com being more business-oriented web sites rather than traditional personal blogs.
