Archive for August, 2008
CBC 93: DaXun Zhang interview part 2
Yazan: Jason | 30 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations
We’re concluding our interview with double bass soloist and University of Texas-Austin bass professorDaXun Zhang today, as well as featuring more tracks from this stellar musician. Check out episode 92 for the first part of this interview. Along with the conclusion of our interview, we’ll be featuring DaXun performing a very cool Chinese piece for [...]
Audition preparation advice with Matt Heller
Yazan: Jason | 29 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: advice, auditions, bass, practicing, student resources
Calgary Philharmonic bassist Matt Heller (a frequent subject of posts here at doublebassblog.org) recently put out an excellent audition preperation breakdown on his blog hellafrisch.blogspot.com. Matt is an excellent bassist and blogger (and a swell guy to boot–we’ve been friends for years) who was featured in the New York Times by columnist Dan Wakin while [...]
Why I love iPhone blogging
Yazan: Jason | 28 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, Uncategorized
I have been doing a surprising amount of blogging on the iPhone ever since the WordPress mobile application was released for the iPhone operating system. While it may seem kind of cumbersome to write extended blog posts on a mobile device–I only planned on doing some editing on the fly with it–this is a marvelous [...]
Southwest adventures part 2
Yazan: Jason | 27 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: travel
After spending time in the Black Hills, we set out for the biggest drag of the trip–the drive from Hot Springs, South Dakota to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a loooooong drive (about 760 miles) and we pass through some pretty uninspiring scenery between in Wyoming, causing us to reconsider the wisdom of driving over [...]
Southwest adventures part 1
Yazan: Jason | 26 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: travel
Though I fear that my luxuriously long summer vacations are nearing an end (I can’t really afford to just drop off from the musical landscape like I have in previous years), I have had the opportunity to head out to South Dakota and New Mexico this past July and August, and my batteries are all [...]
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