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...
Double bassist, electric bassist, and Shenandoah Conservatory bass professor Donovan Stokes and I just wrapped up an interview this afternoon. Donovan is a very creative bassist and composer who was feature on Episode 13 of the podcast. Expect to hear this interview...
This is the next part of my recital/demo/lecture for the Silk Music Camp last week. I played Rabbath’s Ode D’Espagne for the first part (you can check that out here) of the class, along with a “this is the bass” talk for the students. This...
Eric Hochberg sent me a link to a set of videos from a master class with Ray Brown. Divided into nine parts (solely because of upload limits on YouTube), this is perhaps one of the best jazz bass treasures on YouTube to date.Bassist Matt Wengerd has posted this series...
This week we featured double bassist Daniel Nix on the Contrabass Conversations podcast performing “Beau Soir” by Debussy. Daniel is a very lyrical player who can really create a beautiful melody on the bass, and I enjoyed including his music on the...
