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Summer has brought about much more free time for me, and I have been using it to get elbow-deep in code on my blog and work on a lot of background and interface stuff. You’ll probably notice some subtle changes, but I’ve also been working on some technical issues to get things loading [...]

This is a live performance of Aaron Copland’s Violin Sonata 3rd Movement. This piece is transcribed for double bass and piano by Gary Karr, and is accompanied by Gaylien Chun on piano.

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I am wrapping up my portion of the Midsummer’s Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin this week with some fabulous performances. This is my third summer with this ensemble, and it is a great way to decompress after getting up at 4 a.m. and working until 11 p.m. for the past six months. [...]

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers). Anyway, she does a weekly wrap-up that I always find [...]

We hit 1000 posts and sailed past earlier this month—an artificial landmark, perhaps, but it still makes me think about what has been developed so far and what is coming up in the future on the blog. Readership has mushroomed, the comments are pouring in, folks are checking out the podcast, submitting content, trading [...]

I’d like to thank d’Bassists for adding the Contrabass Conversations widget to their site. Emily, PY, and the rest of the bass quartet in d’Bassists have been featured in the Bass Videos section of the blog here. Click here to see their quartet in action.
Emily and PY were among the first double bass [...]

How quickly time flies! It feels like I just started this blog, and it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have pushed that ‘publish’ button one thousand times (and many, many more times than that if you count edits, rewrites, and the like). Think about it—if you looked [...]

This video is a little grainy and slightly out of sync, but it features great bass playing and allows for folks who are unfamiliar with the Hoffmeister Concerto No. 1 to give it a listen. Carmine Laino plays the double bass with Pierfrancesco Borrelli accompanying splendidly on Harpsicord.
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I’d like to see what people are into checking out on the blog these days. I’ve done these polls in the past, but it has been a while since the last one, so let me know what is of value to you here. You can vote for as many choices as you want.

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Here is an excerpt of the fabulous Boguslaw Furtok playing an excerpt from the last movement of the Cesar Franck Violin Sonata in A. Ewa Warykiewicz is accompanying on piano, and you’ll be seeing more of this great player on the blog in the near future. To see more bass videos, visit [...]