This video was most likely taken on a cell phone, so be sure to take some dramamine before watching if you get motion sickness easily. It does give folks a glance of the great music making of this duet if you’ve missed their recent tour, however.
Here is a video of the great Boguslaw Furtok playing a seven minute excerpt from the Bottesini Gran Duo Concertante with violinist Sha Ye. I’m not sure where this performance is taking place, but it sounds great.I have performed this piece a few times with a...
I am a big fan of gig stories from classical musicians (you can read my own stories here). I had an e-mail sent to me a little while back letting me know about bassist Justin Locke and his book of classical music gig stories titled Real Men Don’t Rehearse....
I recently found a great clip of the fabulous jazz bassist Brian Bromberg playing a solo at the Tokyo Blue Note. Brian plays a magnificent old Italian bass, and he has created some staggeringly amazing recordings in the past.Brian has disabled YouTube embedding for...
Carlos Del Pino is an amazing jazz double bass player from Cuba. Now living in NYC, he has become the epitome of passion, power and precision when performing. This cat is awesome!Accompanying Carlos in the background, you can hear Chiemi Nakai (piano), Emmanuel Bizeau...
