| Sorry for not posting a review, as I said I would. I didn't think there was much interest.
The clinic was fairly well-attended with, not suprisingly, a lot of bassists including Lindsey Horner and Marco Panascia. They were filming the clinic for possible release (a la the Patitucci clinic that was filmed there). The cameraman were a bit of an annoyance from where I was sitting, but they didn't interfere too much. A nice touch to the location was the 40 or so basses lining the walls!
As an instructional clinic, it wasn't the best I've been to, however, it was good. It was more along the lines of "showing by example" than "let me show you how I do what I do." In other words, a lot of performing, and not as much specific technique lessons. A central theme to the clinic was "Find your own voice/sound" which Eddie certainly has. He was very inspirational in that regard. Eddie was very funny at times, and his dialogue was relaxed and conversational. He had a lot of interesting and funny anecdotes (he was gigging with Bobby Darin when Bill Evans asked him to join the trio!). He played solo a lot, but also had his musical partner, Mark Kramer, accompany him on a lot of the tunes. They played about about half jazz standards, and half of Mark and Eddie's through-composed with some improvisation pieces (these could come under the banner of "classical" sounding.)
His tone, particularly arco, was very nice. It seemed like he had trouble getting in tune with the piano for the first several tunes. I believe someone else, perhaps The Jazz Lawyer, posted some info about his amp/pickup system at this clinic in another forum. Another topic was air travel with a bass (he keeps basses in Japan, the U.S. and Europe to avoid this problem).
All in all, it was an enjoyable experience; some fine playing and some very funny dialogue from a very heavy bassist. His resume includes Bill Evans, Miles, Chick Corea, etc. | 
some great, vastly underreated jazz.
