Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) for several years has handed the following list of recommended texts out to his incoming double bass students. These books touch on all sorts of issues relating to musicians and...
Double bassist Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) sent in this great photo of the late jazz giant Art Davis (see obituary here) posing with a very fitting ice sculpture:Greg has contributed frequently to both the...
Double bassist Andy Anderson (member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra and Grant Park Symphony, and a frequent Contrabass Conversations guest) mentioned to me recently the usefulness of conducting a survey of double bass airline travel experiences. I think that...
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...
Here’s a great photo of Guy Tuneh (this past week’s Contrabass Conversations guest) and Miloslav Gajdos performing together. I have some time to work on getting some of Miloslav’s videos out this week, so expect to see these coming very soon. Lyric...
