I just added Chicago jazz and classical bassist Kells Nollenberger’s MySpace page to the Double Bass MySpace archive. Kells is an awesome jazz and classical double bassist, and he also has done a ton of electric playing as well. Check out his MySpace page...
Jacque Harper sent me a link to this recent post from On An Overgrown Path. It is a review of Vivaldi and the Number 3 by Ron Butlin, which sounds like a very interesting book. Check out the post here–it’s a lot of fun, and it looks like a good...
If you want to read about real winter misery, check out my story titled Freelancing + Snow = Pain.We’ve been socked left and right with horrible, miserable weather here in Chicago this month. First we got hit by a massive Arctic bubble of air, plunging...
Former Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist was featured in a recent New York Times article. Double bassist John Grillo let me know about this article, which is definitely worth a read.I played with Ted in the American Russian Youth Orchestra (see my...
June Matayoshi recently contributed a post to Chicago Classical Music blog about getting by as a freelancer. I have played a lot of gigs with June in the past, and it is great to hear from her on this blog. In the post she describes the complications of keeping a...
