Bass blog reader Bobby Sleeper sent me a link to this outstanding video of Berlin Philharmonic principal bassist Nabil Shehata and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov performing Bottesini’s Fantasia on themes by Rossini with the East-West Divan Orchestra under the...
I was doing a little tweaking on my YouTube channel the other day when I happened to notice that my Amati recital video was inching up on 20,000 views. This video consistently comes up on double bass search results, and it’s been on YouTube since 2006, so...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers techniques used in developing smooth bow changes. You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as...
This weekend we will wrap up our interview with Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer. John Grillo (a frequent guest and collaborator on the podcast) and I co-interviewed Ranaan, who is the bassist for the band Time for Three and has had a very interesting and...
This month’s issue of Bass Musician magazine just launched, and as usual you can check out our Contrabass Conversations offering in this publication. We featured Chicago area jazz bassist Eric Hochberg in this issue of the magazine, merging the two halves of...