Matt Heller put out a thoughtful post last week on his blog hellafrisch about Paul Ellison’s teaching style. You can visit Matt’s post here, but I’ll put out a few teaser quotes.Matt paraphrases Ellison:First there are the things that you know you...
Bass blog contributor Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me this great photo and accompanying story: Some claim that commuting around London is getting to be really difficult and expensive. Not so for my colossal friend John Bakewell! As former Principle Bass of the London’s...
Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers)....
Northwestern University double bass faculty member DaXun Zhang has accepted a position with the University of Texas-Austin beginning Fall 2007 and will be leaving his Northwestern teaching post. This is sad news for the double bass community in Chicago, but great news...
Scott DiTullio, Director of Bands at Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District in Pennsylvania, recently wrote a guest post on MUSicTECHnology.net that has a great deal of relevance to my recent post on reasons why I teach:I guess when Dr. Creasap first asked me to...
