Archive for August, 2009

Triple Fire Plug: Airline Travel with Your Bass

Yazan: Jason | 16 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, travel

Here’s a good post featuring some common sense tips for flying with a bass, which is a task about as fun as pulling out your toenails with pliers: Triple Fire Plug: Airline Travel with Your Bass

CBC 133: Scott Best interview

Yazan: Jason | 15 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations

We’re chatting with Memphis Symphony Principal Bass Scott Best on this week’s episode of Contrabass Conversations. Scott is a close personal friend of mine and an outstanding double bassist in both solo and ensemble settings. We played together in the IRIS Orchestra of Memphis, Tennessee, and it is a real pleasure to feature him on [...]

Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) – In Nomine No.1 á4

Yazan: Phillip Serna | 14 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Early Bass, performances, Phillip Serna, podcasting, videos

My book about the bass

Yazan: Jason | 13 August 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, podcasting

I’ve been poking away at a few book projects for the last couple of years, working in them when I find the time and the motivation (both of which seem to come far too rarely these days!). I managed to put the finishing touches on one of them, Road Warrior Without an Expense Account, in [...]

The iPhone – my convergence device

Yazan: Jason | 12 August 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogging, technology

Ever since I saw my first iPhone (the day after its launch in 2007), I knew that it was a revolutionary device. Getting my wife the first generation iPhone and seeing how she incorporated it into her life further convinced me of the power of this little pocket tablet, and getting one myself the day [...]

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