Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony double bassist Andy Anderson has just been appointed as a member of the bass faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. This is really exciting news both for Andy and...
I just added Chicago jazz and classical bassist Kells Nollenberger’s MySpace page to the Double Bass MySpace archive. Kells is an awesome jazz and classical double bassist, and he also has done a ton of electric playing as well. Check out his MySpace page...
Russell Kahle recently e-mailed me this absolutely stunning performance of and excerpt from Carnaval in Venezia by Giovanni Bottesini. This is how to play the bass! Listen to the sparkle and virtuosity of this performance–really amazing.
OK–I started the double bass archive page I had blogged about yesterday. This is going to be a big and probably never ending task, but I will update it regularly, so feel free to email me or become my MySpace friend so I can get your MySpace URL.Here’s a...
I may regret starting this mammoth project, but I am going to try to provide a listing of double bass pages on MySpace. I have always had a hard time figuring out how to link to these pages. Are they blogs? Sometimes, but usually not.I like it whenever I find a double...
