Bill Harrison joins the Bass Blog writing staff

I’d like to welcome jazz bassist Bill Harrison to the doublebassblog.org writing staff. An active double bassist and educator, Bill is the owner of PlayJazzNow.com, the world’s only source for downloadable play-along tracks, and he maintains a blog called...

Bass shot of the day – Jazz & Wine

A bassist takes a little break at a jazz festival: Related Posts:Crazy musical instrument catalogueDePaul Symphony Orchestra bass sectionPencil drawing of double bassThe other kind of double bassCats in actionsubscribe to the blog – subscribe to bass blog photos...

Titanium Jr. by Donovan Stokes

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...

Weekly Wrap-Up

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...

Interview with Susanne Dunlap

I recently interviewed Susanne Dunlap, the author of Liszt’s Kiss, about her writing process and the book in general. Susanne also wrote a novel titled Emilie’s Voice, and both this novel and her new novel ae published by Simon & Schuster.JH: Thanks...