The Good Musician

The Collaborative Piano Blog just informed me that a new blog just launched from b5 media called The Good Musician. Even though it is a very new blog, it looks like it really holds a lot of promise to become a very interesting read. Some of their posts...

Joel Quarrington to teach at Toronto Summer Music Festival

San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz recently passed this announcement along to me. Joel is a phenomenal player, and I would highly recommend checking it out.Joel writes:The Toronto Summer Music Festival and Academy is a new program taking place this year at...

Bass shot of the day

This is a bass photo from a Flickr user named Sophie. She takes a lot of very beautiful and interesting photos:Related Posts:Related Posts:Christian McBride videoRay Brown videoCharlie Haden videoReg Kehoe and his Marimba QueensPrevious bass shots of the day – 1...

Kitties like fans

Bass blog reader Andrew Harmon passed along a link to this cat video recently. This one’s a real classic, so you may have seen it if you’ve spent a fair amount of time on YouTube. Either way, it’s worth a view. Real? Well, based on what my kitties do...

Gaelen plays David Anderson duet

Contrabass Conversations listeners will probably be familiar with this selection from the fabulous composer and bassist (and all around great guy) David Anderson. John Grillo played it on his Recital Showcase as well as on episode 6 of the podcast. Dave and I played...