Interview – Marvin Rabin

For the last evening of 2013, here’s a great video of the esteemed music educator Marvin Rabin, who recently passed away at age 97.  I only worked with him one (at Northwestern University in the nineties), but I found him remarkable even in that one encounter,...

Barry Lieberman Bass Tutorials

University of Washington double bass professor Barry Lieberman, who I’ve featured several times before on the blog/podcast, has  released an excellent series of double bass tutorials on major double bass excerpts.  These valuable contributions to the double bass...

Norman’s Bistro – great Sunday jazz venue on the South Side

It’s great to see a place like Norman’s Bistro thriving in the North Kenwood/Oakland area of Chicago.  The major east/west streets of the South Side used to feature dozens of nightclubs with live jazz.  After decades of decline, life on 43rd and 47th...