This week featured the second part of This Crazy Business, my new series about life as a working musician. Unlike Road Warrior Without an Expense Account (which is about being a freelance musician), this series is about life as a musician in general. If you’d...
I’d like to thanks everyone for the great feedback on last week’s podcast episode with Guy Tuneh! Expect to hear the rest of this interview very soon. We will be wrapping up our interview with François Rabbath this week and featuring music for bass and...
I’d like to let readers now that Contrabass Conversations will be a part of Bass Musician Magazine, a bi-monthly virtual publication (free to subscribe) debuting this August. This online magazine has a huge amount of potential, and I am excited to see how it...
In a sublime example of everything that is wrong with the Recording Industry Association of America, Universal Music has demanded that a mother take down a 29-second video of her toddler dancing while Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy plays in the background....
Philanthropic organizations in Chicago have been organizing themselves in a very interesting way when it comes to providing support for jazz, creating the Chicago Jazz Partnership in an effort to draw in new audiences for this music and find innovative ways to support...
