I’m quite proud of my double bass student Dan Carson. He got into a bunch of the top music schools in the country, and will be attending Indiana University starting this fall. Here’s a link to a video (cross-posted from the WMYA.FM podcast) featuring Dan...
I quite like this photo from Bob Strickland, who has written in many times on all things bass. It’s titled “practice”:
I’ve featured several recordings from this label in the past on Contrabass Conversations: The Kadima Triptych Series (cd/dvd/text package) devoted to documenting the work of bassists. Two titles are now available. 1. Mark Dresser: “Guts” — a...
My friend Andrew Harmon (he’s contributed to dbb.org in the past) is selling a very nice Wilfer bass:
A friend of mine from my student teacher training program at DePaul once told me a painfully funny (to me, at least) story from his middle school student teaching days: A bassoonist by trade, this student teacher had been assigned to strong music program in a very...
