Here’s a dynamite arrangement of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” from a performance at Indiana University about ten years ago featuring the original members of the a capella ensemble Straight No Chaser. It’s a great little video to get folks out...
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...
Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to...
Grant Park Symphony bassist and blogger John Floeter put out a recent post on his blog about organizing practice time. He writes:I divide practice into two large categories, technique and repertoire. Within these two categories are many subcategories.Technique Goals:...
Just a quick note to readers and listeners regarding upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks on Contrabass Conversations:This weekend I will be putting out the next segment of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. John Grillo...