Now here’s an event that I would love to attend! The Hawaii Contrabass Festival is an event sponsored by the Hawaii American String Teachers Association (HASTA with NSOA), and it will run from March 24-30, 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Faculty members include:...
I’d like to thank my student Daniel Chmielinski for putting together a great new background for my YouTube page. You can check it out here. In addition to being a fine bass player in both the jazz and classical spheres, Daniel is a talented photographer, graphic...
Chicago-area bassist Ben Huff has been a helpful contributor for both the bass blog and Contrabass Conversations over the past year. He recently let me know that he had started a bass blog of his own. I’ve been checking it out, and it is full of...
Sounds & Fury: A Sad If Sobering Bit Of Reading For The New Year Something happened in 2007, something ended. Old gods stumbled and fell. New ones sprang up. But they sprang up in their thousands. That’s the point these days. (tags: sounds fury classical music...
Taking stock at the end of a calendar year is a natural for most people, and I am certainly no exception. Things are moving pretty quickly for me in these early years of the 21st century, and I feel like this is doubly true for my blogging and podcasting activities....
