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YO-YO MA, STUART DUNCAN, EDGAR MEYER AND CHRIS THILE TRANSCEND MUSICAL BOUNDARIES AND CREATE ORGANIZED CHAOS IN A BEAUTIFUL “GOAT RODEO” Thanks to a fortuitous “goat rodeo,” Sony Masterworks released The Goat Rodeo Sessions, a landmark album project by four of the great instrumentalists in music today, on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. The album uniquely showcases cellist Yo-Yo [...]
Groove 101, written by Sylvain Bolduc, hails from our friendly neighbor to the north (Canada). Groove 101 is a book and audio DVD library of 260 grooves and exercises covering a multitude of musical styles from pop to rock, funk, latin, soul and fusion. The book also comes with a data DVD containing more than [...]
Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck has reconvened the original Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. For their show at Staller Center, pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy is back in the fold alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussion/Drumitar player Roy “Futureman” Wooten. The Grammy Award-winning quartet has created some of [...]
When you think of Reggae, who is the first musician that jumps into your head? The iconic Bob Marley would be my first choice. Now, as a bass player that wants to play Reggae, what music would you want to learn? Bob Marley’s greatest hits of course. Hal Leonard makes this easy with their play-along Bob [...]
I listened to the first minute of Sound Ground by Gary Ogan and I wondered, “Who are these guys?” As I was driving at the time, I would not discover until later that there is only one “Guy” and that is Gary himself! I never cease to be amazed with what one can do with [...]
Source Audio, the multiple award winning guitar and bass effects innovator announces the release of their new compact, cast aluminum Programmable EQ pedal featuring four savable presets, an 18dB range over eight frequency bands, up to 12dB of clean boost, MIDI input, and a tremolo-like auto-scrolling feature. The Programmable EQ, designed for use with both [...]
Christian McBride has released his first big band album, Christian McBride Big Band – The Good Feeling. Christian, a true master of musical diversification, brings together a stellar line-up with his big band and matches that line-up with some top-notch composing covering some great arrangements of standards as well as Christian’s own compositions. This is [...]
Fender is proud to introduce its latest line of guitar and bass instruments, the all-new Modern Player Series. A combination of never-before-seen appointments and familiar Fender elements, the Modern Player Series provides great accessibility to trusted Fender quality at an outstandingly attainable value. “The Modern Player Series represents more than a new line of instruments,” said [...]
Check out new duo CD, Vibes & Bass, with bass player Mikael Berglund and vibraphone player Anders Åstrand… 7 original songs in mixed genres, everything recorded straight ahead, live in studio. A lot of bass features and a unique approach to making music in a spontaneous, fresh way, based on interaction and feel. For more info and [...]
STAR MONARCHY, the new project from bassist Ray Riendeau (JAMES LABRIE, ex-HALFORD) is releasing their first single ‘MONARCHY” worldwide on 10/28/2011. This track features Dan Tompkins (Tesseract) on vocals, Francesco Artusato (All Shall Perish) on guitar, Ray Riendeau on bass & guitar and Danny Handler (The Better Death) on drums. The track was mixed and [...]
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