Chuck Norris Facts One of my all-time favorite web sites! (tags: Chuck Norris facts humor) Jazz Bassist/Composers Bill Harrison writes a blog post about Ben Allison, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, and Dave Holland–four of the best jazz bassists of all time....
Here is a quite cool (and very short) video of a 3-D rendering of a double bass, complete with a little pizzicato riffing in the background. I like how the virtual camera swoops down to string level, then beyond it to body level, like Luke Skywalker going into the...
Here’s a bit of light entertainment for folks today–it’s Messiah ‘performed’ by a pack of cross-dressing nuns. Enough said!
We hope that folks enjoyed this past weekend’s first installment of our Contrabass Conversations feature on Peter Seymour and his kickin’ new trio Project. We’ll be featuring the rest of this interview plus more from Project in the next few...
The always excellent Boguslaw Furtok performs the third movement of the J.M. Sperger Concerto in A major with orchestra. Listen to that projection over the orchestra! If only it were a longer clip…
