After finishing my doctoral coursework in 2002, I moved out to the suburbs of Chicago, not knowing what I was getting into with building a private studio. Like many bassists, I planned on trying my hand at freelancing (in a bassist saturated city like Chicago). What...
Taking a week-and-a-half off from blogging has been a really great thing for me. I didn’t get online once while in Kauai. No e-mail, no Facebook, no Flickr, no podcasts–no internet activity of any kind. I didn’t even attempt to check phone messages....
I just pulled in to Evanston, Illinois after an exhausting couple of days of travel from Kauai to Honolulu to Oakland to Chicago. What a blast! I’ve got a lot to share about the trip, including some lovely pictures of my wife Courtney and me getting married...
As I pack my bags and put the finishing touches on the next two week’s podcast episodes, I’d like to take a moment and let people know about several new projects we’re cooking up for the fall here on the blog and for the Contrabass Conversations...
We will be leaving tomorrow for our Kauai wedding and honeymoon, so I will be dropping off the online radar until early September. During that time, Phillip Serna will be regularly updating the bass blog, so there will still be blogging activity here.I will be setting...
