This month’s issue of Bass Musician magazine just launched, and as usual you can check out our Contrabass Conversations offering in this publication. We featured Chicago area jazz bassist Eric Hochberg in this issue of the magazine, merging the two halves of...
We’ve gotten some really fantastic comments on last week’s post about discouraging professional performance ambitions in music education students–this post obviously struck a chord with many readers. You can check out all of the comments on...
We’ve got a Dan Hachez bass for sale over on the bas blog For Sale page. For those who aren’t familiar, Dan Hachez is one of the best United States instrument makers active today (and the winner of several gold medals for instrument making),...
Double bass virtuoso and Contrabass Conversations guest Guy Tuneh has just come out with a new line of double bass bow cases. Here are a couple of photos of these new cases: You can learn more about these cases at Guy Tuneh’s website. He designed...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode gets more in-depth with the French bow hold, featuring many exercises and close-ups of Andy’s bow hand and arm in...
