Yazan: Jason | 05 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass, ISB
From the International Society of Bassists: Born in New York City in 1936, Buell Neidlinger was a child prodigy on the cello. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he began developing an ear for jazz and switched over to the double bass, playing and recording with the likes of Joe Sullivan, Herbie Nichols, [...]
Yazan: Jason | 02 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: videos
Another non-bass video, but hey, it’s summer. Have fun with this video (like the white tux?), sent to me by my good friend Aaron Burman:
Yazan: jeffweisner | 01 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
(crossposted from PBDB) The Toughest Question, Part 3 It’s been awhile since I’ve had a chance to post! My apologies…. In the first part of this series, we looked at things that might keep us from asking ourselves the following very challenging question: Do I have what it takes to be a professional bass player? In the [...]
Yazan: Jason | 01 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos
Double bassist Nick Weldon sent me the following video of a live performance in which he describes his early years on the double bass: