Here’s a trailer for a documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. What is amazing to me about this is her undiminished love for music and playing the piano (you’ll learn more about her musical background in the trailer). As I like to...
Double bassist Juan Pablo Navarro has recently released a set of his own tango compositions for double bass and piano. I’ll be doing a Contrabass Conversations episode featuring his music, but in the meantime, please enjoy this YouTube video of Juan performing...
Double bassist Erwin has emailed before with questions about double bass techniques–here’s another one that I thought I would toss up on the blog for some reader comments: Hi Jason, To my surprise i found my question about holding the bass in thumb...
I’m wrapping up teaching a music technology course for music education students at DePaul, and I’ve been looking back at what worked well and what didn’t in terms of projects. One of the ones that seemed to be a hit in the class was the following...
This week bassist Michael Cameron from the University of Illinois heads to the deep south for master classes and recitals. He will be the guest of Professor Marcos Machado at the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, giving master classes Tuesday and...
