This is a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic since 1985. He studied double bass...
Double bassist Peter Lloyd has been hired to teach at Northwestern University starting Fall 2007. He will be replacing double bass instructor DaXun Zhang, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of Texas-Austin. For some background on this institution,...
Finally, Gary Karr footage has made its way to YouTube, and I’m happy to be able to share it on the Bass Blog. This footage is generally pretty hard to find. You’ll be seeing many videos from Gary in the future (barring a takedown notice!) but we’ll...
Matt Heller put out a thoughtful post last week on his blog hellafrisch about Paul Ellison’s teaching style. You can visit Matt’s post here, but I’ll put out a few teaser quotes.Matt paraphrases Ellison:First there are the things that you know you...
Double bass players and bass guitar players may want to check out this vacancy in the U.S. Army Field Band. If your audition CD is accepted, the Army Band will arrange for and cover all of your travel expenses. You can find relevant information about this position at...
