Edgar Meyer, Ray Brown, and Victor Wooten

After posting my lengthy post about Edgar Meyer’s playing last week, I though it would be good to put out a little video of this great player out on the blog. There’s precious little on YouTube, and what is there is usually from a shaky cell phone, but...

Locking my keys in the car right before a gig

I was chatting with a student recently when the topic of locking keys in cars before gigs came up–I can’t recall what on Earth we were talking about that led us to this topic, but I told him a story about the times (yes, I’ve done this more than...

Joel Negus – YouTube Symphony bassist and awesome guy

I can’t believe I didn’t blog about this already (I chalk it up to my psycho student/teacher/performer schedule, but still…), but Joel Negus one of the very talented bassists at the Cleveland Institute who has appeared several times here on the blog...