My dad got me a papyrus painting of the Egyptian cat god Bubastis while on a trip to Cairo recently, and my wife and I put it up on the wall after moving into our new digs. For some reason, our cat Angel (I used to stroll her and her brother Dan around the...
Bassist Bobby Sleeper sent me a link to this great arrangement of the Bach Badinerie from the Orchestral Suite No. 2, played masterfully by Cristian Braica and accompanied by Boguslaw Furtok (featured many times on the blog in the past) as virtual orchestra....
Interested in a new aluminum double bass? Dave Gartland from midnightrockers.co.uk is making new ones. Here’s a link to the specific page on these new basses.
Ahhh, Facebook… it certainly has an ability to bring back all sorts of fond memories. Here’s a photo in which someone tagged me recently. It’s of the IRIS Orchestra from the mid-2000’s. I’m on the right along with double bassist Scott...
Jeff Weisner (National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest, and a regular contributor to doublebassblog.org) let me know that Ira Gold (also a National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest) will be joining the...
