Kurt Muroki, Indiana University double bass professor and upcoming Contrabass Conversations guest, is featured in this video from D’Addario about the development of the Kaplan bass strings. This is an interesting video about the development of these new strings...
LA Philharmonic bassist David Allen Moore (we recently reposted his Contrabass Conversations interview–check it out!) has a great video on Musaic, the video site created and curated by the New World Symphony (a fantastic resource, by the way). It’s really...
Chicago-based double bassist Jerry Fuller has just won the International Society of Bassists Special Recognition Award for Historically Informed Performance. Jerry and I have been friends and colleagues for many years. Jerry is quite active in the early music scene...
Cool version of Beethoven 5–check it out if you haven’t before! David Garrett – The 5th – YouTube.
Here’s a cool site called Patternroot I just discovered from bassist Gahlord Dewald: Three things for this site — getting better at playing bass instruments, helping composers use bass instruments well in making new music, sharing and promoting contemporary art...
