I’m putting up a new poll on the blog each week–it’s located in the sidebar just below the Contrabass Conversations and Twitter widgets. You can vote for more than one option on these polls, and they actually help me to know who’s reading and...
Matt Wengerd (104 Weeks) just put up a post highlighting a really cool project that Wired Magazine recently did for its subscribers. When he got home from the Aebersold Jazz Camp, this was what he found in the pile of accumulated mail:That’s Matt smack dab on...
Following up on yesterday’s story about taking a bass on a train, Joe Lewis related some of his own tales about annoying train travel on a recent post on his blog San Bei Ji. Some of the lines he has often heard include:Is that a body in there?Is that your...
Have you ever wondered if the upright bassist can effectively slap on their instrument like the electric bassist can? Well, check out this supremely funky solo by Charnett Moffett on “Return Expedition” with guitarist Stanley Jordan. Charnett’s bass...
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