bass scroll shot

bass scroll Originally uploaded by chelseagirl The photographer writes: “I’ve stared at him longingly for days but only had a few seconds to snap this shot. Oh bass, how I luuuuv thee :)”

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-20

Just got home from an 18 hour day in Milwaukee. # Interviewing Cincinnati Symphony principal bassist Owen Lee tomorrow morning for Contrabass Conversations. # Preparing for an interview this morning. # Just wrapped up an excellent interview with Cincinnati Symphony...

links for 2007-12-21

Chuck Norris Facts One of my all-time favorite web sites! (tags: Chuck Norris facts humor) Jazz Bassist/Composers Bill Harrison writes a blog post about Ben Allison, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, and Dave Holland–four of the best jazz bassists of all time....

3-D Double Bass animation

Here is a quite cool (and very short) video of a 3-D rendering of a double bass, complete with a little pizzicato riffing in the background. I like how the virtual camera swoops down to string level, then beyond it to body level, like Luke Skywalker going into the...

Steve Reinfranck on Contrabass Conversations this week

We hope that folks enjoyed this past weekend’s first installment of our Contrabass Conversations feature on Peter Seymour and his kickin’ new trio Project.  We’ll be featuring the rest of this interview plus more from Project in the next few...