We’ve gotten slammed here in Chicago with the first really big snowfall of the season. This kind of thing used to strike terror into my very core as I envisioned the slipping and sliding that I would be doing on rural Wisconsin back roads, commuting...
Bass Musician Magazine, the bi-monthly publication for which I write a regular column. This issue I contributed a piece on François Rabbath. Blog readers will have seen all this material before here on the blog, but you can check out this article for...
We released a video of the complete Tubin Concerto featuring blog and podcast collaborator Phillip Serna late last week. This, to my knowledge, is the only double bass recording of the Tubin Concerto available online, and Phillip does an excellent job with it. I...
Contrabass Conversations listener Pamela passed along this link to me, and I think that it’s a great gift idea for bass players with little ones. Check it out here.
Here is a video from Greek double bassist Haris Pazaroulas of the third movement of the Koussevitzky Concerto with the Ionian University Orchestra. This performance was conducted by Phaedra Giannelou earlier this year. Folks unfamiliar with the third movement of this...
