Here’s one of our more popular interviews in the Contrabass Conversations archives: Interview: Kristin Korb – jazz bassist and vocalist Born and raised in Montana, Kristin grew up in a musical family and often presented concerts with her three younger...
I’m down at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana today to do a talk about setting up a private teaching studio. Being the neurotic musician that I am, I arrived extremely early, knowing that where there’s a music school, there can’t be a...
Just in time for Easter… Martha Bishop – 2 Lenten Pieces for Male Speaker & Viola da Gamba (1987) Lord, Who Throughout These forty Days Forty Days and Forty Nights watch through the following link: http://blip.tv/file/1964502 From a Lenten Organ...
Here’s another one of our most popular offerings over the past two years. I can’t even begin to tell you how much positive feedback we’ve had over the two years since these videos originally appeared on the blog; they’ve been watched several...
Back in 2007, International Society of Bassists president Hans Sturm and I recorded a set of videos. Set up as mini-lessons (with me playing the role of student), we recorded these in order to give folks a primer on some of the concepts of the Rabbath technique, a...
