Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi left some great comments on the blog recently, pointing to a video of the second and third movements of the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota. I had originally blogged about this back in April of 2007. Click here to check out the first...
Contrabass Conversations listener and double bassist Greg Sowell wrote in recently with a very interesting dilemma, wondering if he has stumbled across a very old cake of Oak Bass Rosin. He writes: I love the show. Its an excellent source for all us Bass Geeks out...
The Chicago Symphony is on tour at the moment, and I’m holding off on releasing any additional material for Contrabass Conversations from CSO bass section members Michael Hovnanian, Rob Kassinger, or Brad Opland until they get back. It’s always better to...
I got married one month ago today on the beautiful island of Kauai, and I realized that, apart from some wacky animated photos, I never put up any pictures of the wedding here on the blog. I’ve got a ton of them (as well as a few thousand other photos from...
Readers could easily have missed double bassist Phillip Serna’s great post yesterday on double bass private studio teaching amidst the glut of posts we’ve put out this week. In this post, Phillip details the steps he went through in establishing...
