From the February 22, 2009 Chicago Early Music Consort Performance of ‘Per Amore – Music of Love from the Italian Seicento.’ Audio Recording by Free Chin, Choice Media Design, Chicago, IL. For more information about the Chicago early Music Consort, visit...
Former Contrabass Conversations guest Justin Locke is the author of a very funny book titled Real Men Don’t Rehearse. Justin has created several tongue-in-cheek YouTube video commercials for this book. Here’s one that I find particularly funny: [From...
Double bass luthier Martin Sheridan has moved back to the United States after spending some time enjoying the good life down in Mexico. Martin has been an active luthier in metro Chicago and Iowa for many years, and I have had many students purchase instruments from...
Check out the stylings of Von Thord, a very talented and cool Swedish cello and bass duo. Swedish bassist Anders Olsson forwarded me the link for this: [From YouTube – Von Thord – Titaniclåten]
I was recently poring over a mailing list from the International Society of Bassists, attempting to locate an actual double bass faculty member with actual working contact information. My task: find out if there’s a bass instructor, get his/her email address,...
