Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post. Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger...
I was thinking recently about a funny and masterful prank pulled by the principal bass of a very high-quality orchestra while performing Mahler’s First Symphony several years ago. Now, part of this piece utilizes offstage trumpets, and this particular...
Double Bass Originally uploaded by krakow81 Here’s a great shot of George Lyle playing double bass with the Tight Meat Trio, a free jazz ensemble, at the Hive, GUU, Glasgow, on Saturday 24th, February 2007.
My recent interview with the always entertaining and anecdote-filled Justin Locke prompted me to poke around his site in search of more amusing tales. There, I found this post about ways in which musicians woefully misrepresent themselves to orchestra...
People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different! I...
