I hope that readers enjoyed yesterday’s installment of Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. If you’re looking for more long form original content (stories, articles, essays, and he like), just click the Articles link in the upper left hand corner of...
In part 3 of Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, we discussed all of the hassles that go into the modern double bass-laden air travel experience. While flying with a bass has never exactly been a joy, each passing year makes it more and more of a not fun...
I hope that folks enjoyed this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Brad Opland (Chicago Symphony Ochestra member). If you haven’t checked it out, you can do so here. Fire it up and play it in the background while you’re reading the...
Although I am a daily Chicago Tribune reader, this short article escaped my notice. Double bassist Jerry Fuller brought it to my attention, and I’m glad he did, because it really highlights the priorities a donor may have in choosing an organization for their...
Readers may have missed this post (the steady flow of new posts makes it hard to catch everything on the blog here) last week containing my musings on why so many bassists blog. Although there are players of every instrument who blog these days, I think it’s...
