Archive for April, 2009

Eclectic Bass 6: Haberdashery

Yazan: Jason | 11 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations

We’re featuring music from the engaging and unusual band Habersashery on Eclectic Bass, the all-music episode series from Contrabass Conversations. We’ll be playing three tracks from their new album Illuminated Road, which you can learn more about on their website. Enjoy! Tracks featured: -Toys – Sunset Cowboy – Not Here

Classic Post: Kristin Korb feature

Yazan: Jason | 10 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, podcasting

Here’s one of our more popular interviews in the Contrabass Conversations archives: Interview: Kristin Korb – jazz bassist and vocalist Born and raised in Montana, Kristin grew up in a musical family and often presented concerts with her three younger brothers. Her passion for music eventually led to a bachelor’s degree in music education from [...]

down in Champaign-Urbana for a talk

Yazan: Jason | 09 April 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogging, music news

I’m down at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana today to do a talk about setting up a private teaching studio. Being the neurotic musician that I am, I arrived extremely early, knowing that where there’s a music school, there can’t be a coffee shop too far away. That turned out to be the case, [...]

Best of the Viols in our Schools GambaCast – Martha Bishop – 2 Lenten Pieces for Male Speaker & Viola da Gamba (1987)

Yazan: Phillip Serna | 09 April 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Phillip Serna, podcasting

Just in time for Easter… Martha Bishop – 2 Lenten Pieces for Male Speaker & Viola da Gamba (1987) Lord, Who Throughout These forty Days Forty Days and Forty Nights watch through the following link: http://blip.tv/file/1964502 From a Lenten Organ Recital with Organist Cathryn Wilkinson, March 1, 2009 in Baker Memorial Methodist Church in Saint [...]

Classic Post: Andy Anderson Virtual Lessons

Yazan: Jason | 09 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos

Here’s another one of our most popular offerings over the past two years. I can’t even begin to tell you how much positive feedback we’ve had over the two years since these videos originally appeared on the blog; they’ve been watched several hundred thousand times, both here and on YouTube, and have been downloaded an [...]

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