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I’d like to let Chicago-area folks know one more time about the master class that Francois Rabbath will be conducting at Symphony Center tomorrow at 1 p.m. Click here for more details. Hope to see you there!

 

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Episode 14 for Contrabass Conversations features the final part of our interview with John Grillo and a double bass recording from jazz artist Terry Plumeri. Enjoy!
CBC 14 show notes

Length: 29:23
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This episode features Part 3 of our interview with double bassist John Grillo. You can listen to the [...]

Double bass virtuoso Francois Rabbath will be holding a master class in Chicago on Tuesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. This class will be held in Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center. Symphony center is located at 220 S. Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Click here for a map of the area and to [...]

This is a portal to all of the double bass resources listed on this blog. There is a lot of information on this blog (as well as a lot of MP3 and PDF downloads), and clicking around will lead to even more information than is listed here. This should get you started, however.

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Double bassist Brian Roessler recently sent me a link to this new double bass case design by Olivier Rabbath from New York weighs only 35 pounds and utilizes a suspender system to hold the bass in place. IT will cost you $4500, but it may save you a lot of flight headaches. Check [...]

I got some great feedback from Minneapolis/St. Paul electric and double bassist Brian Roessler regarding my podcast Contrabass Conversations. Thanks, Brian! He has a great website with several videos of him playing various pieces, including some Rabbath music. Check him out at brianroessler.com.
His site is also a great example of what can [...]

As 2006 draws to a close I would like to highlight the more significant posts made this year on the Bass Blog. I started this blog a little less than a year ago and for the first six months basically just used it as a student management tool. The content management system that [...]

Matt Wengerd (104 weeks) recently wrote a very detailed post about the many modifications he made to his Rumano Solano bass. This is an interesting post which covers many of the gear modifications that bass players in the United States are doing these days. Matt had a K.C. Strings extension with chromatic stops [...]

I recently discovered this site devoted to the great double bassist François Rabbath. It was created by one of Rabbath’s relatives and is a great place to start learning about this double bass virtuoso and master pedagogue. It contains a links page to recordings and publications, information about news and workshops, and a [...]

Eric Hochberg recently sent me a link to some videos by Renaud Garcia-Fons. You can view them here. They are definitely worth checking out. Here is some biographical information about Renaud Garcia-Fons:

Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for using a customised 5-stringed [...]