This story also has an audio and video version!___________I hate driving. I am also a bass player. This is a problem. As I watch my violinist, flutist, and clarinetist colleagues getting off of the train outside of a gig while I circle frantically for a parking spot...
I am playing a chamber music festival this week and next week in Door County, Wisconsin. The schedule is busy and internet access is extremely limited, so don’t wonder where I went if you don’t hear from me for a day or two. Summer is a time for kicking...
I just did a great interview with Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bassist Jeff Turner yesterday for Contrabass Conversations. I think that folks will really get a lot of this interview, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to get to sit down wit Jeff and learn his...
The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music bass studio has a tradition that they call Burger Madness. Bass blog contributor Nicholas Hart is a member of Albert Laszlo’s CCM bass studio, and he sent me a link to this video documenting the tradition: Related...
While recording this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Michael Hovnanian, I inadvertently fumbled the Gunnelpumpers and Chicago Bass Ensemble introductions, somehow mixing the two together. To clarify, the track that I played on the show was ‘Floobah...
