The great Charles Mingus playing with the bow at a jazz festival. Note the lion’s head scroll on this bass. Anyone know who made this bass?Related Posts:Christian McBride videoRay Brown videoCharlie Haden videoReg Kehoe and his Marimba QueensPrevious bass shots...
Bassist and PlayJazzNow.com founder Bill Harrison just started a blog called Jazz Underneath, and it is already turning into quite a resource. One of his recent posts highlights beautiful jazz-themed paintings by New Orleans painter Ann deLorge. The work to the left...
Just what the world needs…….more smooth jazz. How about some Yanni DVDs and Kenny G albums while we’re at it?Milwaukee loses classical music radio to fill void left by station shufflingClassical music disappeared from Milwaukee radio today as WFMR-FM...
Here is a video of the late jazz giant Ray Brown playing some solo bass on ‘Black Orpheus’ during his 75th birthday celebration concert. George Fludas plays drums on this high quality (both in terms of bass playing and production value) video.Related...
So where do we go from here? Do we all just turn in our instruments and quit this miserable business? Not me, and not you either, I imagine. We musicians know the value of what we do. We know that our art can change lives, create happiness, inspire greatness in...
