Eric Hochberg sent me a link to a set of videos from a master class with Ray Brown. Divided into nine parts (solely because of upload limits on YouTube), this is perhaps one of the best jazz bass treasures on YouTube to date.Bassist Matt Wengerd has posted this series...
Before I get started on the blog entries for this week (regarding private studio teaching), I wanted to make sure I invited anyone in the Chicago area who is interested to my upcoming recital:Dr. Phillip W. Serna – The Seventeenth-Century Lyra-Viol, a RecitalPhillip...
I have been checking in regularly with Corner Violin Shop, a blog started by A. Cavallo Violins about daily life in a violin shop. This blog is an outstanding example of a small business utilizing the power of social media (like blogs, podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and...
The highly useful podcast text search tool EveryZing continues to both amaze and amuse me daily. It does a good enough job with the speech to text transcription to allow for really useful search results, but if you actually sit down and read the transcripts,...
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...
