We’ve put out a lot of interviews in our 164+ episodes of Contrabass Conversations! At a certain point, it becomes hard to locate specific interviews. Out upcoming app will help, but I thought it would be helpful to review and categorize what we’ve done...
It’s always fascinating to look at numbers—I forget so easily that items put out online reach not just the 319 million people in the United States but potentially the billions worldwide. Even with something that I think of as relatively narrow in scope like the double...
I’m pretty sure that the first podcast I discovered was, like many tech-minded people, Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech. This discovery of it coincided neatly with my purchase of an iPod Video (my first MP3 player). Though I was having plenty of fun loading up all my...
The February 25th, 2011 edition of the Composers Datebook Radio Program & Podcast entitled “Basics” by Koussevitzky and Meyer highlights the double bass. Music featured includes the classic Gary Karr Recording of Serge Koussevitsky’s 1905...
Summer has always been a slow time for me bass-wise. Though I’ve always done at least one summer festival since college, I usually find myself with quite a bit of time on my hands during the warmer months. The lack of summer work used to cause me considerable...