Drew McManus is following the ongoing San Antonio Symphony negotiations in his usual excellent fashion. San Antonio Symphony President and CEO has made several unfortunate recent public statements regarding these negotiations, include references to the musicians and...
While checking in on podcast statistics earlier today, I happened to notice that we’ve now past 32,000 downloads for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. That’s approximately 21,000 hours of consecutive hours of podcasts accessed by people (880 straight...
Bassist Andrew Harmon (of That’s My Cone! fame) sent me links to two extremely useful repositories for freely downloadable scores. The first (which I have used for research purposes before–extremely useful) is the International Music Score Library Project....
Eric Hochberg sent me a link to a set of videos from a master class with Ray Brown. Divided into nine parts (solely because of upload limits on YouTube), this is perhaps one of the best jazz bass treasures on YouTube to date.Bassist Matt Wengerd has posted this series...
This week we featured double bassist Daniel Nix on the Contrabass Conversations podcast performing “Beau Soir” by Debussy. Daniel is a very lyrical player who can really create a beautiful melody on the bass, and I enjoyed including his music on the...
