Recent content by jbjazz74

Sorry, my silly sense of humor seems to make me unclear in this case. The “smaller, inferior” bass-related instrument I play is usually just called guitar. My parents were the bassists in the family. My father spent his young adulthood in NYC studying with Homer Mensch and Doug Watkins. He was...

Hi all, shiny new member here, from Oakland, CA. I own a couple of double basses via inheritance, and I can do a pretty convincing impression of Charlie Haden, for about three minutes, at which point my forearms burst into flames. I can’t do a darned thing with a bow. So, I don’t really call...