Double bass luthier Martin Sheridan has moved back to the United States after spending some time enjoying the good life down in Mexico. Martin has been an active luthier in metro Chicago and Iowa for many years, and I have had many students purchase instruments from...
Check out the stylings of Von Thord, a very talented and cool Swedish cello and bass duo. Swedish bassist Anders Olsson forwarded me the link for this: [From YouTube – Von Thord – Titaniclåten]
I was recently poring over a mailing list from the International Society of Bassists, attempting to locate an actual double bass faculty member with actual working contact information. My task: find out if there’s a bass instructor, get his/her email address,...
Several people at the 2009 International Society of Bassists Convention remarked to me that their all-time favorite video on the blog was the “Duets” video featuring a bassist wearing, off all things, a Santa hat (!), and demonstrating quite an innovative...
A recent post from Michael Hovnanian (Chicago Symphony, DePaul University, Discordia Music, and a Contrabass Conversations guest as well) reminded me of a post I wrote a while back called The Babbling Conductor. I wonder if the conductor I referenced (albeit in a...
