The Avishai Cohen Masterclass – New Release from Discover Double Bass… Discover Double Bass, a music education website, is pleased to announce the release of its...
Virtuosic Bassist Carlos Henriquez pays tribute to the South Bronx on The South Bronx Story, His Revelatory New Album is out now via Tiger Turn. Tiger...
The Byzantium Connection… Michael Cretu is an internationally recognized musician and composer of The Byzantium Connection, a celebration of his exceptional musical heritage. Born in Bucharest,...
Double Bass Scales… Discover Double Bass founder Geoff Chalmers has just released a great learning tool, Double Bass Scales, that at first seems applicable for upright...
Independent recording artist Tarik Hassan has released Yalla!, his second album as a leader. The album shows Tarik’s evolution as a composer as well as a...
Walking the Changes, A documentary film exploring the evolution of the double bass in jazz. “In Jazz, as in most music, the bass is the bottom line.” ...
Contrabajo. Works For Bass And String Quartet, the new recording by Argentine-born bassist, composer, arranger, and producer Pablo Aslan, is a bold self-portrait of the artist...
The authors of The English Double Bass are pleased to announce their much anticipated tome is now being printed. Produced by Arpeggio Publishing, the first copies...
Carl Fischer Music announces the release of Fantasies for the Double Bass (BF123 – Score – $11.99) composed by Georg Philipp Telemann and transcribed and edited by Nicholas...
Derek Jones, Bassist for the Cirque du Soleil production KA at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, reviews the Nadine. This microphone designed exclusively for upright bass...
The Best in Double Bass Strings by Maureen Pandos… Wow, bass strings… I could talk to you about them until I’m blue in the face. There are...
From Electric Bass to Upright Bass by Maureen Pandos… So, you’ve been playing electric bass now for some time and you’re thinking about maybe trying your hand...
Lies and Hoes by Kel Elliott… After a few minutes of listening to Kel Elliot’s “Lies and Hoes” one word came to my mind… Retro! Now let...
I interviewed Leon Bosch for the pages of this magazine in October last year but we really only briefly covered his professional playing life. In this...
Contextual by Petros Klampanis… We all know that there was a double bass well before the electric bass was an idea lingering in the back of...