My friend Pete told me a few weeks ago that he is quitting the music business. The main reason for this is because of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident back in ’99 (or ’00). I don’t remember the details of the accident, but I know his right hand was mangled, his larynx was …
My first decent bass was a black Jackson Concert EX (without the sharkfin inlays or the bound fretboard). It was totally a heavy metal bass. I bought it as a step up from the Epiphone P-Bass copy I had. I played that Jackson bass for a really long time. So long, in fact, that it …
I haven’t had the focus to write anything meaningful, lately. I’m working on getting two different jobs right now (well, one or the other). I’m not going to go into any details with that until the time is right. I am into my third week teaching bass at the Governor’s School Jazz Band and having …
I just found a really awesome ‘online document’ by a guy named Marc Sabatella called A Jazz Improvisation Primer. This is an online version to a text that he sells privately, providing some broad insights to the ins and outs of Jazz improv without really zeroing in on one of the many methods on the …
