We’ll be featuring an interview with David Murray, Volkan Orhon, Paul Sharpe, and Anthony Stoops on this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode. These four bassists have been assembling from time to time as the Bad Boyz of Bass, and they are certainly...
Click to Play Listen to a very tired Jason prattle on about the pros and cons of the freelance lifestyle in this video. Though I’m trying to keep the tone light, you can tell that the last few days have been nothing but driving, playing, driving,...
A colleague of mine passed along this entertaining (and true!) tale from a concert in a local per-service gig orchestra. I know a lot of musicians who perform in this orchestra (which I’ll refrain from naming here), which makes it even funnier to me....
A reader recently passed along the following link about the Freeway Philharmonic, a new movie based on the lives of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, and I am amazed that I haven’t seen this before. This movie completely ties into the various phenomena that I...
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...
