I’ve featured several recordings from this label in the past on Contrabass Conversations: The Kadima Triptych Series (cd/dvd/text package) devoted to documenting the work of bassists. Two titles are now available. 1. Mark Dresser: “Guts” — a...
My friend Andrew Harmon (he’s contributed to dbb.org in the past) is selling a very nice Wilfer bass:
A friend of mine from my student teacher training program at DePaul once told me a painfully funny (to me, at least) story from his middle school student teaching days: A bassoonist by trade, this student teacher had been assigned to strong music program in a very...
Ben Allison was invited to teach a one-week workshop on composition and group interplay at the Siena Jazz Foundation’s International Jazz Master Program. Then he debuts a new group back in New York City at the Abrons Arts Center before heading back to Europe for...
Here’s a heartbreaking and all-too-familiar personal narrative from Kirby Nunez, the (now former) principal bass of the Honolulu Symphony on why he is leaving the orchestra: The Honolulu Symphony is being dismantled, and I don’t think the public is aware...
