Double bassist John Floeter just sent me a link to this completely wild video from the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra playing Bernstein’s ‘Mambo’ from West Site Story. This Venezuelan youth orchestra makes American orchestras...
We will be leaving tomorrow for our Kauai wedding and honeymoon, so I will be dropping off the online radar until early September. During that time, Phillip Serna will be regularly updating the bass blog, so there will still be blogging activity here.I will be setting...
Yesterday I posted a video sent to me by Peter Szczepanek featuring Stringfever (a U.K.-based string quartet) playing Bolero on one cello all at the same time.After asking when bass players would try the same thing, Márcio Domingues from Portugal said… hi jason!...
Double bassist, electric bassist, and Shenandoah Conservatory bass professor Donovan Stokes and I just wrapped up an interview this afternoon. Donovan is a very creative bassist and composer who was feature on Episode 13 of the podcast. Expect to hear this interview...
Although I will be taking a real break from the blog for the rest of August (I’ll be back in early September), I have put together two podcast episodes which will be “magically” appearing while I’m gone. One will come out this Sunday morning...
