Eric Hochberg performs with the Lyle Mays Quartet

Bill Harrison alerted me to this video of Contrabass Conversations guest and bass b log contributor performing with the Lyle Mays Quartet:Lyle Mays QuartetUploaded by mwdrumsThis video was shot in 1992 in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. To hear more from Eric Hochberg, visit...

That’s my cone! – bass on a train story from Andrew Harmon

This bizarre story comes from double bassist Andrew Harmon and is about a wacky experience he had while taking the Chicago El with his bass. I take this train all the time with my own bass, and I can certainly relate, although I’ve certainly never had this sort...

Contributor articles soon available through ‘Articles’ link

If you are looking for ‘flagship content’ (the meatier, longer writing on this blog), clicking the Articles link just below the Contrabass Conversations banner will take you to a page listing the fifty or so long-form works on this blog that I have...

Improvisation Skills – post from Bill Harrison

Bass blog contributor Bill Harrison wrote a very interesting post recently on his bog Jazz Underneath. His post was prompted by this post from jazz vocalist Carol Sloane. Regarding the skills necessary for constructing a solid improvisation, Bill writes:Just because...

Double bassist Art Davis dies at 73

Jazz bassist Eric Hochberg sent me this obituary over the weekend for the great Art Davis, a musician who not only worked with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk but also with the New York Philharmonic and NBC and CBS Orchestras as well as earning a...