Ripping Off Your Teachers

I’ve got story for you, and I promise it’s true! When I was getting started as a freelance musician at the tail end of my masters degree, I was quaking in my boots about my future prospects. After all, I was regularly buying CDs at Borders and Barnes and Noble from...

Twelve Survival Tips for Freelance Musicians

Over time, professional freelancers develop a set of skills quite peculiar to the profession, alternately taking on the role of long-haul trucker, delivery man, cabbie, and crisis control expert. Though they share the same basic musical skills as their more stably...

New double bass composition from Leonardo Presicci

Double bassist Vito Liuzzi recently let me know about a new composition from Italian bassist and composer Leonardo Presicci. Vito writes: LEONARDO PRESICCI from ITALY and his new composition : CROSS OVER BASS (HR) for db. and orchestra Dear Jason, I’m happy to...

Instrumental Junkies Part 1: Overview

The cycle repeats itself, the faces on the gigs and the music on the stand changing in a never ending cycle of concert halls, Styrofoam cups of coffee in underground orchestra lounges, hauling basses, stools, and stands out of parking garages. Kennedy Expressway...
Buy Road Warrior Without an Expense Acount – the book!

Buy Road Warrior Without an Expense Acount – the book!

Want to learn the realities of being a freelance musician?  Check out my book Road Warrior Without an Expense Account!  Inspired by a series of posts regarding various facets of making a living as a freelance musician, it covers the following topics: Part I – Adjunct...