I’d like to welcome jazz bassist Bill Harrison to the doublebassblog.org writing staff. An active double bassist and educator, Bill is the owner of PlayJazzNow.com, the world’s only source for downloadable play-along tracks, and he maintains a blog called...
Bass Blog reader Jon recently let me know about this great resource from Rice University bass professor Paul Ellison on career opportunities in music. This resource is especially relevant considering some of the subjects that have been explored in the past on this...
I heard this track a few months ago on the Project Studio Network podcast (a great show for people involved in recording or producing audio content).Some perceptive guy took a couple of Nickelback songs–How You Remind Me from 2001 and and Someday from...
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...
Here’s a great photo of Guy Tuneh (this past week’s Contrabass Conversations guest) and Miloslav Gajdos performing together. I have some time to work on getting some of Miloslav’s videos out this week, so expect to see these coming very soon. Lyric...
