Bass Blog TV for 2/6/09

We’re continuing with these new ‘Bass Blog TV’ episodes this week, rounding up some of the more interesting stories from the bass community this past week. These are new sorts of video episodes, and I’m still getting comfortable with the...

Count Basie – Booty’s Blues

My bass student Kevin Helfman just passed along a link to this very cool video of Count Basie playing a duet with Cleveland Eaton, Basie’s long time bassist. Listen to him wail in the upper register! [From YouTube – Count Basie – Booty’s Blues]...

Miloslav Gajdos plays the Hoffmeister Concerto No. 1 Mvt. 1

Here’s a video from 1996 featuring Miloslav Gajdos performing at the Harold Washington Library as part of Chicago’s International Artists Exchange. Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist and Northestern Illinois University double bass professor Greg Sarchet (who...

Miloslav Gajdos plays his own composition Elegie

Here’s a video from 1996 featuring Miloslav Gajdos performing at the Harold Washington Library as part of Chicago’s International Artists Exchange. Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist and Northestern Illinois University double bass professor Greg Sarchet (who...