Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard workshop in Brussel on 10 of july 2011.  Dont miss it! info & reservations

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An article from Acoustic Image their latest newsletter on the subject of phase invertion. Click here for the online version. If you want to know more about it, check also the incredible interview with Steve Rodby on amplifying double bass.   What’s “Phase?” And why would you want to invert it? We recently introduced a [...]

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In this interview Steve Rodby talks indepth about all aspects of amplifying the double bass. Highly recomended! http://contrabassconversations.com/guests/episodes/steve-rodby/

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Very nice website of music journalist Anil Prasad containing some great interviews with  Ron Carter, Stanley Clark, Dave Holland, Marc Johnson, Miroslav Vitous, Eberhard Weber and many others. Definitely worth visiting. www.interviews.com

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Don’t miss the Charlie Haden concert  on wednsday 31 of march in de Doelen in Rotterdam.  Playing with his Quartet West and accompanied by the Metropole Orkest. More info and tickets here.

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Lawrence Bernard “Larry” Gales (March 25, 1936 – September 12, 1995) was an American jazz double-bassist. Gales began playing bass at age 11, and attended the Manhattan School of Music in the late 1950s. In that decade and the beginning of the next he worked with J.C. Heard, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Mann, Junior Mance, and Joe Williams. From 1964 to 1969 he [...]

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Three concerts in Lantaren Venster in Rotterdam: 12 dec Craig Taborn Trio with Thomas Morgan, 9 jan Lage Lund Will Vinson Quartet with Ben Street and 14 jan John Escreet Project with Matt Brewer.

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The Bad Plus blog is a bomb! Check out the Ron Carter interview!

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Look what i’ve found on the Bad Plus blog – Ben Street and Jeff Ballard playing Winter Wonderland! What a treat! Winter Wonderland

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“The strange thing with Charlie is, even having played with him so much for so long, i really still can’t put my finger on what that x-factor is that he brings to, not only each situation but every note that he plays, that carries the music and gives the music this quality, this  texture, this [...]

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