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I spent the past two weeks performing with the Grant Park Symphony. This has been a real treat for me, both musically and personally. The GPSO is a great ensemble, and we played a lot of excellent repertoire, including Beethoven 2, Mahler 5, and the Firebird Suite. Bass blog readers will [...]

My limited German prevents me from giving much information about this video, but check it out. It’s very finely crafted and is a pleasure to watch. Guanaco passed this along to me via Michas Cellopages:

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Titanium Jr. by Donovan Stokes
Charnett Moffett ultra funky bass solo
David Anderson bass sonata video
Gary Karr plays Van [...]

I’d like to thank people for the positive comments about Ranaan Meyer’s Czardas video, which we put out as a Contrabass Conversations episode yesterday. If you’re a subscriber, then you also received this video on the podcast feed. If you aren’t a subscriber, please consider doing so! It’s free, and having more [...]

This week marked the launch of Bass Musician Magazine, a new publication available at www.bass-musician-magazine.com, and one in which Contrabass Conversations will be a regular feature. Check it out!___________
We released the next part of the Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles featuring tales of woe regarding plane travel. This is the first in an [...]

The Singapore bass ensemble d’Bassists just put out a new video featuring an excerpt of Murray “Doc” Solomon’s Sentimental Bossa. Check out more content from this bass ensemble at their great website. Links to all of the other d’Bassists videos on this blog are located below the video.

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This week featured the second part of This Crazy Business, my new series about life as a working musician. Unlike Road Warrior Without an Expense Account (which is about being a freelance musician), this series is about life as a musician in general.
If you’d like to read the 50 or so more substantial articles [...]

Upright bassist Djordje Stijepovic (Atomic Sunset, Head Cat) performs solo the song “Atomic Boogie”, combining pizzicato and slap technique. You can check him out at www.djordjestijepovic.com.

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Jaco Pastorius plays Portrait of Tracy
Christian McBride - two bass soli
Ray Brown solo from Black Orpheus
Eddie Gomez bass solo
Charlie Haden performs Speak Low

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This video was taken in Athens, Georgia, and features an mini-orchestra of basses (always an impressive sight and sound) playing a rendition of Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles. I especially like the guy in the blue shirt who doesn’t play for half the video but just stands there ‘rocking out’ to the music.

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Donovan Stokes, one of our guests back on Contrabass Conversations #13, wrote Titanium Jr. for double bassist Ken Fuller (seen playing in this video). The piece was premiered with orchestra earlier this year. Donovan is a great composer and bassist, and I think that this piece must be a lot of fun to [...]

I spent the majority of this week playing up around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While the concerts were fun and in a beautiful setting, these long drives are slowly killing me, and I see less and less of them in my future.
I played the same festival last year right around the time that I started [...]