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Jason explains the bass and plays Rabbath composition
Author: Jason | 16 August 2007 | 5 comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos
This is a video of a section of my recital yesterday for the Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I am doing a demonstration with the bass, and the first minute or so features me explaining some fundamentals of the bass. I’m basically improvising this demonstration as I go–I wasn’t sure of exactly what I [...]
Jeff Bradetich plays the BB Wolf
Author: Jason | 15 August 2007 | 1 comment
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos
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 Jon Deak this fall on the podcast, so stay tuned [...]
Weekly Wrap-Up
Author: Jason | 13 August 2007 | No comments
Categories: bass, blogging
I spent the past two weeks performing with the Grant Park Symphony. This has been a real treat for me, both musically and personally. The GPSO is a great ensemble, and we played a lot of excellent repertoire, including Beethoven 2, Mahler 5, and the Firebird Suite. Bass blog readers will actually be familiar with [...]
Weekly Wrap-Up
Author: Jason | 06 August 2007 | No comments
Categories: blogging
This week marked the launch of Bass Musician Magazine, a new publication available at www.bass-musician-magazine.com, and one in which Contrabass Conversations will be a regular feature. Check it out!___________ We released the next part of the Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles featuring tales of woe regarding plane travel. This is the first in an extended [...]
Weekly Wrap-Up
Author: Jason | 30 July 2007 | No comments
Categories: Uncategorized
This week featured the second part of This Crazy Business, my new series about life as a working musician. Unlike Road Warrior Without an Expense Account (which is about being a freelance musician), this series is about life as a musician in general. If you’d like to read the 50 or so more substantial articles [...]
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