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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 [...]

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. [...]

The 2007 International Society of Bassists Convention will be taking place June 4-9 at Wanda L. Bass (fitting name) School of Music on the campus of Oklahoma City University. I imagine that many bass blog readers will be attending this event, and I’d love to hear your experiences during and after the convention. [...]

Double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes will be in Chicago in late May to see the World Premiere of his bass concerto “Titanium Jr.”, and he will be working with double bassists in the Chicago area in masterclass settings during this visit. Stay tuned to the blog for more information. I’ll let readers [...]

 

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Hope you all enjoy episode 13 of Contrabass Conversations! This week we are featuring music of double bassist Donovan Stokes and an interview with Weldon Anderson. Enjoy!

Show Notes
Length: 58:35
website: contrabassconversations.com
e-mail: contrabassconversations@gmail.com
voicemail: 206-666-6509
blog: www.doublebassblog.com
Download the episode here
This episode features the first part of an interview that
Jason recently did with double bassist Weldon Anderson. [...]

Here is a list (updated regularly) of double bassists on MySpace. Please e-mail me if you would like to me included on the list, or you can always become my friend on MySpace (my name is jasonheathbasspage, which is about as lame as one can get:

MySpace Double Bassist Archive
Aren - Kendallville, IN bassist
Artemis - [...]