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Archive for August, 2008

More podcast transcriptions coming soon

Yazan: Jason | 25 August 2008 | 6 Comments
Categories: podcasting

We’ve gotten a great response after sending out a request for volunteer transcribers for the Contrabass Conversations back catalog. This, to me, is a great example of how cool the bass community is and how folks will really step up to the plate for something in which they see value. Darlene Marshall (an oboist!) has [...]

The John Grillo Experience

Yazan: Jason | 25 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, education, podcasting

Double bassist, blogger, and entrepreneur John Grillo has been a pivotal part of Contrabass Conversations since its inception in early 2007. John was one of our very first guests on the podcast, and his role quickly grew to that of collaborator and co-host. John and I have now co-hosted many of the Contrabass Conversations podcasts, [...]

PBDB Book Review Dept: Marcel Tabuteau – How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe if You Can’t Peel a Mushroom?

Yazan: jeffweisner | 23 August 2008 | 3 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

(crossposted at PBDB) So who the heck is this guy?  Why is this book worthy of any bassists’ attention?   If you are interested in anything related to woodwind playing, string playing, phrasing, music education, orchestral performance, musicianship, the history of American orchestras, rhythm, sound, or the Curtis Institute, the name and teachings of Marcel [...]

CBC 92: DaXun Zhang interview part 1

Yazan: Jason | 23 August 2008 | 6 Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations, podcasting

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We’re featuring an interview with and music from double bass soloist DaXun Zhang this week on Contrabass Conversations. The winner of numerous prestigious solo competitions, DaXun is a true virtuoso, capable of a level of musical expression and technical dexterity rarely seen on the instrument. In this first segment of our interview (which we will [...]

Franco Petracchi performs Bottesini Tarantella

Yazan: Jason | 22 August 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass videos

This video (courtesy of Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi) features the incomparable bass virtuoso Franco Petracchi performing the Bottesini Tarantella on a hard-to-find documentary that RAI (Italian state television) did on this great artist: