Hat tip to Reddit user cosmicplacebo for this link to University of Texas at Austin Double Bass Professor doing a master class as part of the Mayerson Masters Artists Series. DaXun was on Contrabass Conversations back in 2008, and we had a great chat and got to...
The wonderful musician and visionary bassist François Rabbath is featured in this hour-long video from McNally Smith College of Music performing and speaking about his life. Watching this brings back memories of my interview with Rabbath in the early days of...
One of my DePaul bass students pointed this video out to me a week ago when I let them know that I was reposting David’s great CBC interview. The video quality is bizarrely bad, but the audio is great, so close your eyes and listen to what David is talking...
The amount of helpful online content for bassists today is truly staggering. As an “old” guy, it’s hard to conceive of how many more resources young bassists have these days at their disposal. There’s so much, in fact, that knowing where to...
Kurt Muroki, Indiana University double bass professor and upcoming Contrabass Conversations guest, is featured in this video from D’Addario about the development of the Kaplan bass strings. This is an interesting video about the development of these new strings...
