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Loving the unemployment

Yazan: Jason | 29 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, Contrabass Conversations

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 stress, especially in my early years of [...]

Summer festivals – a good deal?

Yazan: Jason | 07 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: advice, freelancing, travel

Adaptistration blogger and Inside the Arts mastermind Drew McManus recently put out a post about summer music festivals that really caught my eye. In this post (dated 6/27/08), Drew writes: Unlike regular season positions, music festivals have an added bonus by offering their exclusive location as an added incentive to performance and travel pay. Add [...]

Best of the Blog

Yazan: Jason | 01 July 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: blogging

It’s been a great year of blogging for me personally, and I’m really excited to have reached the phase of development for both Contrabass Conversations and doublebassblog.org that I’m at currently. We’ve got a large daily readership (we were pushing 2000 daily page views for these sites plus Arts Addict during the spring) and a [...]

CBC 85: bass gear with Steve Rodby

Yazan: Jason | 28 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations, jazz, jazz bass playing, podcasting

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This week’s episode concludes the interview with jazz bass legend Steve Rodby that we featured on episodes 58 and 78 of the podcast. Rodby has played bass on every Pat Metheny Group record since 1980, co-produced the group’s last five albums and won 10 Grammy Awards with the group. He has toured with jazz greats [...]

The Art of Slowing Down

Yazan: Jason | 25 June 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: photography, travel

Though this post’s title could easily be tied to a post about slow practice or something like that (which would make a good future blog post!), I’m actually referring here to the deliciously laid-back summer schedules that I’ve managed to get away with for much of my freelance career. While I have certainly had my [...]