Podcasting from Hawaii…sort of

Although I will be taking a real break from the blog for the rest of August (I’ll be back in early September), I have put together two podcast episodes which will be “magically” appearing while I’m gone. One will come out this Sunday morning...

Negotiations heat up in San Antonio

Drew McManus is following the ongoing San Antonio Symphony negotiations in his usual excellent fashion. San Antonio Symphony President and CEO has made several unfortunate recent public statements regarding these negotiations, include references to the musicians and...

Four guys play one cello

Milwaukee Symphony and Grant Park Symphony cellist Peter Szczepanek sent me a link to this video featuring Stringfever playing Bolero. The thing is…they’re all playing it on one cello! Amazing. Now let’s see a bass quartet do the same thing. That...

over 32,000 downloads for Contrabass Conversations

While checking in on podcast statistics earlier today, I happened to notice that we’ve now past 32,000 downloads for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. That’s approximately 21,000 hours of consecutive hours of podcasts accessed by people (880 straight...

Jason plays BB Wolf and teaches kids more about the bass

This is the next part of my recital/demo/lecture for the Silk Music Camp last week. I played Rabbath’s Ode D’Espagne for the first part (you can check that out here) of the class, along with a “this is the bass” talk for the students. This...