OK–I started the double bass archive page I had blogged about yesterday. This is going to be a big and probably never ending task, but I will update it regularly, so feel free to email me or become my MySpace friend so I can get your MySpace URL.Here’s a...
I may regret starting this mammoth project, but I am going to try to provide a listing of double bass pages on MySpace. I have always had a hard time figuring out how to link to these pages. Are they blogs? Sometimes, but usually not.I like it whenever I find a double...
This is a great video of Monti’s Czardas by double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Guanaco from the Cellomania blog recently sent me a link to this post.Digging through my archives, I realized that I...
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...
Are you in the mood for some rip-roaring, top-notch bass playing? Then check out this video of double bassist Alper Mufettisoglu playing an extremely virtuosic rendition of Gliere’s Tarantella, the fourth in his series of pieces for the double bass.
