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I hope that folks enjoyed this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Brad Opland (Chicago Symphony Ochestra member). If you haven’t checked it out, you can do so here. Fire it up and play it in the background while you’re reading the blog, download it to your iPod, or program (360)227-5632 into [...]

I hope that readers enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations interview with Chicago Symphony bassist Brad Opland. If you didn’t get a chance to listen to it, you can click here to check it out (or click the ‘play’ button in the sidebar while you’re reading the blog right now!).
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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Chicago Symphony bassist Brad Opland. In addition to the interview, you’ll get a chance to hear Brad perform on the double bass in his own arrangement of Ibert’s Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte for bassoon and bass and hear Brad perform on the electric bass [...]

Lucite electric basses pop up from time to time–I believe that my father-in-law actually has one. This photo, sent to me by Eric Hochberg after he located it on TalkBass.com, is the first example I’ve seen of a lucite double bass:
If anyone has any other photos of lucite double basses, please let me know!
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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 of videos on his blog, [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Minnesota Orchestra bassist Colin Corner. Colin joined the orchestra in 2006 after being a member of the Vancouver Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. We got a chance to talk auditions, orchestra life, gear, and much more. We also feature a piece from Israel-based musician [...]

I spent the past two weeks performing with the Grant Park Symphony. This has been a real treat for me, both musically and personally. The GPSO is a great ensemble, and we played a lot of excellent repertoire, including Beethoven 2, Mahler 5, and the Firebird Suite. Bass blog readers will actually [...]

This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features the second half of our interview with double bassist Guy Tuneh, conducted over a distance of thousands of miles. It was a real pleasure to get to sit down and chat with Guy–he’s a warm, intelligent, and passionate individual, and these traits come through in his speaking just [...]

Matt Wengerd (104 Weeks blog) pointed out to me yesterday that AllAboutJazz.com was using the Contrabass Conversations logo on their site for a series on jazz bass players. Jacque Harper (Chicago Bass Ensemble) sent me the following screen shot to demonstrate the context in which it was being used:
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Bill Harrison alerted me to this video of Contrabass Conversations guest and bass b log contributor performing with the Lyle Mays Quartet:
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This video was shot in 1992 in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. To hear more from Eric Hochberg, visit his website or check out Contrabass Conversations #21. Click here [...]