Before I get started on the blog entries for this week (regarding private studio teaching), I wanted to make sure I invited anyone in the Chicago area who is interested to my upcoming recital:Dr. Phillip W. Serna – The Seventeenth-Century Lyra-Viol, a RecitalPhillip...
Bass blog contributor Nick Hart sent me a link to this great video of University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute of Music bass professor Jeff Bradetich performing the B.B. Wolf by New York Philharmonic bassist Jon Deak. We will be featuring some compositions by...
Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) for several years has handed the following list of recommended texts out to his incoming double bass students. These books touch on all sorts of issues relating to musicians and...
Double bassist Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) sent in this great photo of the late jazz giant Art Davis (see obituary here) posing with a very fitting ice sculpture:Greg has contributed frequently to both the...
Jazz bassist Eric Hochberg sent me this obituary over the weekend for the great Art Davis, a musician who not only worked with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk but also with the New York Philharmonic and NBC and CBS Orchestras as well as earning a...
