Bass Shot of the Day – Jazz Bass

Steve Riddle plays another angle… Jazz Bass, originally uploaded by Claire Tamara.   Related Posts: Lucite Double Bass Art Davis with ice sculpture Bass faculty at Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops My post on Dark Roasted Blend – automated musical...

No Child Left Behind leaves music education behind

Stan Haskins (Glued to the String) pointed me to a thought-provoking post from Dr. Jim Horn’s Schools Matter blog titled “I Test, Therefore It Exists”:If you thought that the orgy of tabulation that has infected our society had reached a climax...

Interact with Ranaan Meyer and the Time for Three guys

We have featured Ranaan Meyer, the bassist for the excellent bluegrass/classical/unclassifiable trio Time for Three, in both audio and video episodes on Contrabass Conversations. You can click here to check them out over on the CBC page. We’ll be putting out the...

Donovan Stokes this week on Contrabass Conversations

This weekend we will be featuring an interview with and music from double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes. Donovan teaches bass at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and he is an extremely active soloist, clinician, and composer. We featured music from Donovan...

New projects for Contrabass Conversations coming this week

I hope that you all enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring an interview with Scott Rosenthal, a pit musician veteran here in Chicago’s musical theater scene, as well as some Bottesini from the always excellent Stefano Sciascia. If...