Doesn’t the expression on my face (below) make you curious what this video’s all about? Check it out–notice how I put my hand up to shield my face as a car pulls into the spot next to me in the parking lot. I guess that I didn’t want to look...
After finishing a performance in a master class, the student looks up, wide-eyed and expectant, at the teacher, expecting some sage advice or pearls of wisdom. The teacher opens his mouth and says: "You have two problems……your left hand and your right...
We’re featuring Barrie Kolstein on Contrabass Conversations this week. One of the most prominent and influential figures in the double bass community, Barrie was a real treat to interview, and co-host John Grillo and I really had a blast chatting with him. In...
Actually, this post could quite easily be framed as a question rather than a statement: how do you, the reader, use, access, and derive value from this site? Though I’ve posed this question on polls in the site (and have gotten very interesting results),...
The nasty cold and never ending snowstorms seem to have finally ebbed for this season (knock on wood!). What a winter! I seem to have become fixated on the bad weather this season, and for good reason! While in the bookstore a few days ago, I passed by this enticing...
