Donovan Stokes, one of our guests back on Contrabass Conversations #13, wrote Titanium Jr. for double bassist Ken Fuller (seen playing in this video). The piece was premiered with orchestra earlier this year. Donovan is a great composer and bassist, and I think that...
I spent the majority of this week playing up around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While the concerts were fun and in a beautiful setting, these long drives are slowly killing me, and I see less and less of them in my future. I played the same festival last year right around...
I recently interviewed Susanne Dunlap, the author of Liszt’s Kiss, about her writing process and the book in general. Susanne also wrote a novel titled Emilie’s Voice, and both this novel and her new novel ae published by Simon & Schuster.JH: Thanks...
In the first part of this series I described the utter nastiness that results when you combine cabs and double basses. The horrible experiences from this first installment have given me an irrational hatred of cabs. I never take them, bass or no bass. To this day,...
John Floeter sent me a link to an insanely funny service called Gizoogle which allows you to read my blog in glorious Snoop Dog jive talk. You can click here to read the whole site in jive (warning–lots of profanity if you try it) , or check out this version of...
