The raffle for the Upton Bass Revolution Pickup is over, and the winner (drawn at random out of the doublebassblog hat) is… Luis Baars (author of Crash!) I put out stories submitted on the topic of worst gig experiences on the blog from the following bassists:...
Renaud Garcia Fons will be coming to Ball State for a FREE concert to be held March 25 at 5:30 in Pruis Hall. He is coming with the Arcoluz Trio featuring flamenco guitarist Kiko Ruiz and world percussionist Pascal Rollando. March 25, 5:30 pm Pruis Hall Ball State...
From Madeleine Crouch, the manager for the International Society of Bassists, on the first day of spring in Dallas. As I recall, it was warm and sunny up here in Chicago that day…
The ever-evolving bassist Rufus Reid – performer, educator, composer and Guggenheim Fellow – has sent the ISB a quantity of his recently published solo for double bass and piano, Caress The Thought (Expressly for Diana Gannett). If the molto adagio section...
A couple of weeks ago, I put out a post about my new Honda Element and what a great bass car it is. Double bassist Bob Strickland wrote in with another good recommendation for a bass car from Honda: Jason, my friend has an Element. They are, indeed, great musician...
