Double Bass Originally uploaded by krakow81 Here’s a great shot of George Lyle playing double bass with the Tight Meat Trio, a free jazz ensemble, at the Hive, GUU, Glasgow, on Saturday 24th, February 2007.
My recent interview with the always entertaining and anecdote-filled Justin Locke prompted me to poke around his site in search of more amusing tales. There, I found this post about ways in which musicians woefully misrepresent themselves to orchestra...
People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different! I...
Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog. I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more...
Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt...
