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I am sure that must have been a special performance! I don't think that there is an official recording of that trio. There are two pretty amazing duo records by Ibrahim and Dyani ("Echoes from Africa" and "Good News from Africa", both on the Enja label). There is also video on youtube: I was...

I first heard Jesper Lundgard on the marvelous Warne Marsh record "A Ballad Album". Beautiful playing all around on this one!

Thanks for the reply! What you describe is similar to what will happen to our wood furniture. I'm not sure how to clean inside the bass. The top has been off that Kay once before and I hope to avoid doing that again. In terms of smoke damage, smoke and ash did enter the house but it is not that...

My house is in the evacuation zone for the Eaton Fire in southern California and sustained smoke damage (thankfully, it is still standing!). I was not able to move my backup bass, a 1965 Kay, and it remained in the house during the fire. Does anyone have experience cleaning instruments after...

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It looks like all volumes are available on Amazon. The cheapest option is to purchase Vol. 17 and then recreate the other volumes using the compendium of table of content posted in the first message of this thread.

Here is a post from a while back that gives an overview of how Dave Holland used the Zimmerman material with students: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/zimmerman-book-for-pizz.1578378/#post-26829807

I think you mean Rabbath 3 (blue cover, first ~50 pages are 3 octave scales w/fingerings). If so, I think the answer is "yes", at least for me. I love Rabbath 3 and it has really opened/pushed up my technique (along w/Vance's Vade Mecum, a gentler intro to multiple fingering of scales). That...

Good stuff so far. Here are some of my favorite small group records: Sara Vaughan in Hi-Fi Sara Vaughan +2 (great trio w/Joe Comfort on bass) Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake "The Newest Sound Around" (features George Duvivier on a few tracks) Helen Merrill "You and the Night and the Music" (Charlie...

The other day I was listening to Walt Dickerson's "To My Queen" and thinking how great George Tucker sounds on it. Nice big tone and interesting playing. The record also features Andrew Hill and a young Andrew Cyrille. Definitely worth a few (or more) listens!

Dr. Drone is not too bad. I've tried several others and it is the most satisfactory.

I came to a similar conclusion on the perpendicular approach and use it sparingly these days. I had the privilege to study with John Lockwood around this same time and he gave me one of the studies from Zimmerman to work on. I think it was the etude for Pattern 1 (p. 12). He advocated a playing...

I studied with a former student of Dave Holland many years ago. He showed my the exercises that he got from Dave. I'll do my best to recount here but keep in mind this was about 20 years ago. Mr. Holland provided a handwritten sheet that contains the basic patterns in Zimmerman: Pattern 1 (p...

If you are just starting with Boardwalkin', try working the C major scale just in third position. The pivots are more manageable there than first and second position. Once you get the hang of it, you can work your way down (or up). It's kind of nice to span an octave and a half without shifting...

How about something slightly less classical...