I recently found what seems like a pretty cool solo bass piece by bassist/composer Chunyang Wang. I’d be interested to know more about this player if any blog readers know about his background. [From YouTube – Chunyang Wang plays his Caprice for Solo...
I’ve set up a page for folks to follow along with live ISB Convention coverage at doublebassblog.org/live. This page will feature our Ustream live feed, my Twitter feed for the convention (I’ll be tweeting quite a bit, so you can follow along that way even...
Here’s a very 1970s-looking documentary featuring the incomprable Franco Petracchi playing the Bottesini Tarantella. Man–listen to that fantastic bass sound! Just what I imagine i my mind when I think of a classic Italian bass sound.
I’ve been meaning to put this out on the blog for some time now, but my (now ended) “student life” keeps getting in the way. This is audio footage from the chat about multimedia websites that I did for the Chicago Chapter of the Association for...
As the podcast coordinator for the Midwest Young Artists program here in metro Chicago, I have to opportunity to pore through some very cool videos, some of which I also like to share here on doublebassblog.org. This video (approx. 25 minutes) is of a master class...
