I’m really excited to get a chance to feature double bassist Anthony Stoops on the Contrabass Conversations podcast this weekend. Anthony is professor of double bass and chair of the strings department at the University on Oklahoma, and he also...
Though it chagrins me to admit it, I’ve recommended friends and colleagues for musical activities that are simply impossible. Whether passing a wretched gig to an unsuspecting bassist hungry for work or giving out a colleague’s name to a bass student who...
This is a post from contributor Bill Harrison. Bill owns and operates the play-along jazz tracks company playjazznow.com , and he maintains a blog called Jazz Underneath. You can read all doublebassblog.org contributions from Bill here. ___________ Among the many...
This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts. ____________ On Monday, we had...
People often ask me how much time I spend working on doublebassblog.org, Contrabass Conversations, Arts Addict, and my other online endeavors. While I certainly put in a significant amount of time on all these projects, they have grown organically over...