Double bassist and all-around cool guy Oz Acavedo recently posted this video of Czech bassist Miloslav Gajdos playing his arrangement of Monti’s Czardas for bass trio with Greg Sarchet of the Chciago Lyric Opera and Leonid Finkelsteyn. Live in Chicago 1996. This...
We’ve had 90 comments so far about the recent video of Guy Tuneh playing excerpts from the Elgar Cello Concerto. This has certainly been one of the most heated discussions we’ve had on the blog during its four years of existence. I am a big fan of Mr....
Frank Zappa was a cat guy. Nothing wrong with that–so am I. Just dig through my bass blog cat archives if you don’t believe me. Photo found via The Catalyst, which it a truly righteous blog. Frank is my musical hero in may ways, so it’s good to see...
Here’s a cool event happening at Northwestern University (just around the corner from me). Peter Lloyd student and Civic Orchestra of Chicago bassist Josh Fink just sent me the following information. Josh informs me that there will be several cool bass solos:...
It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and write a solid multi-part series. I used to to this a lot on the blog–in fact, my book Road Warrior Without an Expense Account is based on a series of posts I did in 2006 and 2007...
