Audience members may be completely unaware of this, but there is a lot of wacky stuff going on in a pit that would probably never happen in an onstage performance. There’s just something about being located 6-10 feet below floor level that unleashes something in...
Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Greg Sarchet sent me this photo to mark Christmas in 2006, and it certainly deserves another viewing. Merry Christmas!
My extensive research into the area of influential and prolific jazz composers who happen to be bass players has been something of a bust. Much as I wanted to shill for my fellow low note creators, the sad truth is that there are not enough outstanding musicians who...
daily observations » odds and ends Some good links for the week from Charles Noble (including one of mine from Arts Addict!). (tags: charles noble viola classical music blog) PostClassic: Cats Cats from bloggers… (tags: cats bloggers artsjournal) PostClassic:...
We hope that folks enjoyed this past weekend’s first installment of our Contrabass Conversations feature on Peter Seymour and his kickin’ new trio Project. We’ll be featuring the rest of this interview plus more from Project in the next few...
