Thinking about the Karr-Koussevitzky “Amati” bass

Double bassist, author, and musical humorist Justin Locke (www.justinlocke.com) recently emailed me about checking out my recital on Gary Karr’s former bass from 2006. I haven’t done a recital since then–only little solo performances here and there...

A Student’s Guide to Learning a New Piece

Happy New Year readers! Peter Tambroni here, from MostlyBass.com. As the new year rolls around I’m beginning to plan for my school’s annual solo festival.  I’m always looking to improve the quality of my student’s playing as well as their...

Some of my favorite posts from 2008

It’s been a great year of blogging for me personally, and I’m really excited to have reached the phase of development for both Contrabass Conversations and doublebassblog.org that I’m at currently. We’ve got a large daily readership (we were...