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As far as I can tell, vast portions of human scholarship in general and the internet in particular are devoted to drawing gigantic distinctions between things which are almost indistinguishable. For example, around here that might look something like, "My bass totally opened up when I...

Although I am not a veteran, I always recognize that your service made it possible for me to make a different choice. We might disagree about some things but I respect you both and thank you for your service.

What I LOVE about this clip is how Joe Cohn does NOT comp four-to-the-floor. He's doing his job and letting the bass player do the bass player's job. Such a simple concept yet all too infrequently spotted in the wild!

Wise choice! Search around the DB side for "Gary Karr technique" or "Karr fingering" or "vomit" (no, I am not kidding -- "vomit") and you will see that different people take different approaches to technique. Stick to it, maestro -- it's so worth the work!

See you and raise:

Huy, forgive them. They don't know what they don't know.

If you, a topnotch player, think it's worth it then it must be worth it. You know what you're doing. I have to learn from that by taking it at face value and pondering on how that would and does work. But a beautiful bass sound inspires me. It's never irrelevant to me. And no-one has ever...

I when I was a young player in Hartford, Connecticut in the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a Sunday night session at the 880 Club on Maple Avenue. The house bassist was Joe Fonda. Joe was always gracious and supportive; he slid me some of the very first jazz gigs I ever played. At that...

Easy to say but not easy to accomplish!

Have you ever read Ray Padget's Pledging My Time? 40+ musicians describe their experiences in Bob Dylan's bands, generally concurring that he is one of the great bandleaders of our age. Julian Lage only plays by choice. If he concludes that his time is well spent heading out with Zimmy I...

Yes! I studied with Michael Moore from 1978-1984 or so. He is such a patient person, a generous educator and a blazing bassist. No-one has influenced my playing more thoroughly, even though I can barely see his dust far ahead. People who walked into Michael and Anita's music studio were...

No, it's like the notion that this will make it hard for you in many musical situations: but this will help you wherever you want to go: @Chris Fitzgerald said it better but a picture is still worth a dozen words

Sorry Ed. I was responding to Francis' post about his situation. Although that topic is relevant to me and Francis (and perhaps to others) you are correct that its direct correlation to your situation is negligible. Please accept my apology for my role in the distraction.

I play in Portland Jazz Orchestra, which is almost entirely current or retired music teacher / professors. I refer to it as, "Sixteen people with music degrees and me." It's a nice regional band, boosted up a step or two because half a dozen current or former members are nationally-published...

One of the many things I respect about Chick Corea is how he kept working on his tunes -- even his masterworks -- long after most people would consider them 'finished.' He had many versions of "Spain." I really like this one -- there's a lot to learn from the piece as it sits, and even more...

Sez who? Try to get someone else to play it while you stand out front. A. Don't tell them about what you're hearing -- ask them what they're hearing. It's possible that they don't hear any problem. B. It's possible that you don't hear the same problem out front. As my old boss used to...

I saw him about 2004 at Symphony Hall in Boston and it was the precise opposite. The concert was OK. Sonny's beat was a kinda ricky-ticky. But for the last note, the band held out one note for several minutes while Sonny Rollins took his own time, blowing freely over a static chord. It was...

The liner notes tell this story: Dizzy told Stitt that Rollins was gunning for him. Dizzy told Rollins that Stitt was gunning for him. Dizzy watched the sparks fly!

Our friends on the BG side have a thread running here. Let's join them, shall we?

A long life, robustly lived. He worked so hard and gave so much to music lovers!

I practiced bankruptcy law for about 25 years, representing debtors, creditors, committees and trustees, and I worked for two US Bankruptcy Judges. I do other things now as a lawyer, by choice. Civil insolvency law dates back almost four thousand years. The philosophy underlying modern...

Waaay back there was a very prolific TB/DB poster named Bruce Lindfeld. (I'm sure old-timers remember TalkBruce.) He went straight to EUB and hewed to it for a long time. Near the end he finally embraced DB and you could feel his satisfaction across the internet. Slightly sorry for the derail...

One reason I left music school in 1981 was because I thought that if I made my living as a musician I would wind up making a lot of musical compromises. I guessed that I would be happier continuing to play but doing other things for work. Sometimes now that looks like ignorant hubris...

From what I can tell it's a mistake to think in terms of "this" or "that." You can formulate oil, spirit or poly in an endless variety of ways with different degrees of plasticity and cure-time. You can apply any of them in any degree of thickness. And different people can have different...

Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and James Cobb: Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and James Cobb: Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and James Cobb: I don't know much but I first studied playing with drummers by playing along with Jimmy Cobb.

Nice work as always, Mr. Bulmer. Maestro -- I'm nobody special but WELCOME to TB/DB. This is a wonderful and and a robust online community. Please consider starting a new thread so that people can see what you're looking for. That would dramatically increase your chances of success.

Dagnab! TREMENDOUS job. It looks like you did all the work to convert a Brockless Wonder into a neck-Brock bass! Sorry . . . I come from a long line of Dads, and that pun was just waiting there.

"Be careful what you wish for!" If the long and detailed process of working on this bass presents its own reward to you, then there you go. The chances that you recover the financial equivalent of your time is probably modest, but that's another story. Phrased otherwise: It's a bad candidate...

Perhaps you need to communicate a bit with your colleagues so that everyone's expectations are aligned. I respect you and our instrument too much to hold back: That's on you. Play things that capture and retain your audience's attention. Our challenge as musicians is to use the improvisor's...

Here's the Italian travel-bass box: The way to keep the box as short as it is and use a one-piece fingerboard is to set up a clip-down rig that would allow the entire finger board to come off the neck for travel. Even then you might need to make the box just a drop wider. It would take some...

IMO he never played better.

Plywood top and back, no question. I don't have to leap to the conclusion that the seller is actively dishonest -- lots of people don't know the lingo. Y'know, "It's not liquid wood so it must be solid wood!"

Ms. Healey's 2016 essay begins, "In my first year in one of the top Australian tertiary jazz programs, only 12 out of the 40 students were women." Her bio says that she graduated from that program in 2015. That means she's describing her cohort from around 2010. In contrast, her 2020 release...

IMO the most positive development in jazz music in this century has been the dramatic increase in involvement by female musicians at the most elite level. There's still a long, long way to go of course. When you double the talent-pool the music takes off. When you add a new bunch of people...

Rumor has it that there are countries in which the governments financially support artists, including musicians. I play jazz. A fun audience is fun but IME it is unwise to play jazz expecting to lean on the audience. An interesting point on multiple levels. One is that I think you're...

The band sounds crisp great and you sound great. I play in a big band. I get to solo 3-5x / year. You get it. I never would have said, "That's an 8" speaker." Nicely done!

Thank you for all that you've done for bassists in general and the TB/DB online community in particular. I don't need to tell you that TB/DB is an oasis online. TB/DB is a rare example of the world-wide web we old people were all promised once upon a time. I think that your work has resulted...

J, I'm not here to spat with you but I haven't heard that. What I did see is this: Around 2008 Upton decided to stop importing basses from Eastern Europe and bring all building in-house. Countless people told them, 'You cannot compete with the Eastern European and Asian builders on price or...

Streaming is now available here. If you buy a stream and don't listen, you have not squandered six dollars: You have contributed a very modest amount to a worthwhile venue. Thanks everybody. I'm eager, and for all the right reasons too!

Jazz isn't dead. There are millions of people playing jazz today. In every decade jazz trolls told me that jazz was dead. In every decade, without looking hard, I have found brilliant, blazing, beautiful new jazz to enjoy and play. Jazz trolling is dead: Discuss