links for 2008-01-22

Double Bass Padawan: My Way of Practicing the Double Bass, Part 2: Nitty Gritty Here’s a very insightful post from a bassist who thinks very deeply about the art of practicing and improving. Great work, Ben! (tags: double bass blog ben huff) Kenneth Woods- a...

2000 posts reached at DoubleBassBlog.org!

We passed the 2000 post milestone over the weekend on www.doublebassblog.org. It seems like it was only a few months ago that we hit 1000 posts…oh wait, it was just as few months ago (in May 2007)! That’s what happens when you put out 3-5 daily posts, I...

Dragonetti’s bass

This photo of Domenico Dragonetti’s Gasparo da Salò comes from Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi.  Note the broad shoulders, richly colored varnish, and three string set-up. A student of mine recently performed the Dragonetti Concerto with orchestra, and he...

Congrats to Andy and Rose Anderson…

…on the birth of Eli, their second son!  Andy plays bass for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, teaches at Roosevelt University, and is a regular contributor to the Contrabass Conversations podcast.  He also happens to be a dear friend, and I wish him and his...

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-20

Making a mushroom, onion, and jalape # Watching Bill Friedkin’s movie ‘Bug’ with Courtney. # Watching some streaming Netflix movies with Courtney. # Huddled inside trying to avoid the Arctic air. I’ll be running around outside all day later...