Dave Holland Plays Mr. P.C.

Never been much of a Stanley fan…too show-offy and repetitious for my taste. Here’s a great video of the master jazz bassist Dave Holland playing Coltrane’s tribute to another bass master, Paul Chambers. Now that’s what I’m talkin’...

new video episodes for Contrabass Conversations

The short Contrabass Conversations video episodes (featuring Guy Tuneh, Ranaan Meyer, and Miloslav Gajdos thus far) that we’ve been putting together over the last few months have proven to be very popular, and we’ve got a lot more of them coming to you...

The incomparable Stanley Clarke

My students have often asked me if it is possible to slap on an upright bass. While I usually mention that there is a whole unique style of upright slap prevalent in rockabilly music, I know that they are usually talking about slap a la Flea or Victor Wooten.I usually...

Brad Opland this week on Contrabass Conversations

We’ll be featuring an interview with Chicago Symphony bassist Brad Opland this week on Contrabass Conversations. Brad has also provided some great tracks featuring both himself on electric bass and an arrangement of Ibert’s Quatre Cansons de Don Quichotte...