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CBC 69: Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand interview
We’re chatting with double bass luthier and Heartland String Bass Shop owner Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand today on the Contrabass Conversations podcast.
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Exploring Chamber Music 3 - Brahms Serenade No. 1
This Contrabass Conversations special series highlights chamber music that includes the double bass.
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People often ask me how much time I spend working on doublebassblog.org,  Contrabass Conversations, Arts Addict, and my other online endeavors.  While I certainly put in a significant amount of time on all these projects, they have grown organically over time and have interwoven so tightly into my other daily activities (playing and teaching [...]

This blog represents the constant, gopher-like work of one overcaffeinated bassist’s multi-year attempt to create a resource bank for the double bass community (plus crazy gig stories and cat posts, of course!).  Though I am constantly working to tweak the user interface to walk the line between showing too much and not showing enough, I [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog).  He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic.  Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here.  Here are some selected quotes from [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog).  He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic.  Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here.  Here are some selected quotes from [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog). He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic. Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here. Here are some [...]

The February 2008 edition of International Musician, the monthly publication from the American Federation of Musicians, contains a feature on this site and the various satellite projects that I have developed during these past few years of blogging and podcasting, including Arts Addict, Inside the Arts, and Contrabass Conversations.
This feature contains several references to [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog).  He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic.  Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here.  Here are some selected quotes from [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog). He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic. Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here. Here are some [...]

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog).  He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic.  Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here.  Here are some selected quotes from [...]