Archive for June, 2009
Chunyang Wang plays his Caprice for Solo Double Bass
Yazan: Jason | 11 June 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos
I recently found what seems like a pretty cool solo bass piece by bassist/composer Chunyang Wang. I’d be interested to know more about this player if any blog readers know about his background. [From YouTube - Chunyang Wang plays his Caprice for Solo Double Bass]
Live ISB convention coverage
Yazan: Jason | 10 June 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass, ISB
I’ve set up a page for folks to follow along with live ISB Convention coverage at doublebassblog.org/live. This page will feature our Ustream live feed, my Twitter feed for the convention (I’ll be tweeting quite a bit, so you can follow along that way even if you can’t tune into the live video feed), and [...]
Franco Petracchi plays Bottesini Tarantella
Yazan: Jason | 10 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos
Here’s a very 1970s-looking documentary featuring the incomprable Franco Petracchi playing the Bottesini Tarantella. Man–listen to that fantastic bass sound! Just what I imagine i my mind when I think of a classic Italian bass sound.
Audio from my ACM talk about blogging and podcasting
Yazan: Jason | 09 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: podcasting, technology
I’ve been meaning to put this out on the blog for some time now, but my (now ended) “student life” keeps getting in the way. This is audio footage from the chat about multimedia websites that I did for the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This is the raw, unedited audio [...]
Classic Post: Steve Rodby interview
Yazan: Jason | 08 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, jazz, jazz bass playing
My friend Kells Nollenberger guest interviewed Steve Rodby for Contrabass Conversations in 2007, and this has ended up being one of our most popular interviews. Not only has Steve played bass for the Pat Metheny Group (playing on every record since 1980), but he co-produced the group’s last five albums, winning 10 Grammy Awards along [...]
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