H: One of my students at CalArts asked me why I close my eyes when I play. The obvious answer is for concentration, but I told him, “The first night we opened at the Five Spot, I looked across at the bar and there was Charlie Mingus, Wilbur Ware, Percy Heath, Paul Chambers, and just about every great bass player in New York, looking right at me. And from that moment on, I closed my eyes!”
F: Is that true?
H: Yeah! Not really, but . . . . [Laughs all around.]
In Memory and Honor of George Vance: Summer Bass Workshop 2010
Lutheran Church of St. Andrew, Silver Spring, Maryland
François Rabbath in Recital Friday, July 9
All Ages Welcome!
Bass Master Classes / Semi-private Lessons / Student Recitals / Evening Faculty Recitals / Finale Bass Choir Concert Classical Bass / Jazz Bass & Improvisation
Faculty: François Rabbath, Robert Peterson, Frank Proto, Barry Green, David Young, Anthony Bianco, Ted Botsford, Tracy Rowell, Etienne LaFrance, Hans Sturm, John Hamil, Lloyd Goldstein, Nicholas Walker, Ira Gold, Christian Laborie, Liz Azcona-Hartmark, & Sylvain Rabbath.
Early Bird Discount: $450 (by April 15th)
Tuition: $475
Next week, the Frankfurt Musikmesse will open the doors for four days. I’ll be at my booth at hall 1.2 most of the time – and always enjoy to meet my www.doublebassguide.com readers there!
This clip at YouTube shows the use of Everyday Looper, a really cool iPhone app. My iPod touch doesn’t have a microphone, so I guess I really need to buy an iPhone now.
Dave Holland has relaunched his website. For this week, the recording “Archive Series Vol. 1: DHQ ’07” for download for only 1 USD (or only 3 USD in lossless quality).
The Violin Craftsmanship Institute offers weeklong hands-on workshops in violinmaking and setup skills. Led by Horst Kloss, Paul Wiessmeyer, Francis Morris, Lynn Hannings, George Rubino. Sponsored by University of New Hamsphire; Durham, New Hampshire
www.learn.unh.edu/violin
A couple of apps turn your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad into a web radio. I’ve been using last.fm a lot, but the available music has recently become less exiting, in my opinion. I now have discovered the Jazz.FM91 app at the App Store, which immedieately became my new favourite! Jazz.FM91 is a Jazz radio station from Canada, which is available worldwide via the internet. With the new iPhone app, you not only can enjoy their radio shows via live stream, they also offer Podcasts, additional web radio streams (“singers” or “contemporary Jazz“), a feature to listen their shows while using other apps (“background”), direct links to their website, program schedule, twitter, webblog, etc …
Five stars from me!
12 august to 20 august 2010 master classes classical, levels A,B
14 august to 20 august 2010 master class Jazz
16 august to 19 august 2010 Edouard Nanny classical competition
Master Classes with Thierry Barbé, Alberto Bocini, Jeff Bradetich, Evgheny Kolossov, Miloslav Jelineck, Catalin Rotaru, Dan Styffe, Jean Ané, Jean-Marc Faucher, Bernard Salles, Christophe Picot for classical in level A (professional, advanced) and B ( lower level), and mini bass classes for kids.
Hein Van de Geyn, Julien Duthu for Jazz Classes.
Highlights:
Solo master class, professor recitals, student concerts with pianist Marina Pacowski and Marcella Jelineck
Technique Workshop
One lesson per day with different professors
3 concerts in the Festival international des contrebasses (classical and Jazz)
Link: www.contrebasse.com
Yesterday, Apple has launched the iPad with it’s new iBooks (E-Book reader and online store) features. I think the iPad will be great for sheet music. All iPhone Apps, like iRealBook, will run there, too. Pretty interesting.
Today, it’s Eberhard Weber’s 70. birthday. The German bassist, who lives in south of France, is best known for his work with Jan Garbarek (sax) and Wolfgang Dauner (p), and the exclusive use of an electric upright bass since the 1970ies.