Regular bass blog contributor Benjy sent in this great photo from an old International Society of Bassists journal that he scanned, retouched, and framed. Benjy writes: I’m sure that it will amuse the bass community- we can actually count the number of strings...
Here’s a brief demonstration of how to use chord substitutions on the ever-popular “I Got Rhythm” chord progression.
I hope that readers enjoyed Orchestras – A Secret Society of Weirdoes (and I’m one of them!), which I put out on the blog yesterday as part 4 of This Crazy Business. This series has been a lot of fun to write, and I’m in the middle of putting...
This is a post by Bill Harrison – playjazznow.com ___________ I’m a musician. You know – a man with no marketable skills. Civilians sometimes ask me what I do for a living; musicians I run into often ask me what kind of stuff I’ve been doing...
In this series we have discussed the alternate mental circuitry developed by musicians, how addictive this art form can be once this circuitry is hard-wired, and how this addiction causes musicians to tolerate employment circumstances that appear untenable to...
