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Couple of recents…

I don’t take outdoor gigs in the summer anymore.

Polytone BP-100 Realist Full Circle Sennheisser MD409 Realist Soundclip

I recently flew with my bass (RN but all in one piece because I sold my hard case) and I had to buy two first class tickets to get seats with enough legroom (bulkhead) and seat width for it to fit. And on the 717 is was very tight. Really don't think it would fit in the economy seats. The last...

Only had the chance to hear him once, at the Bottom Line before it bagged. I did get to play with Masuo a Lott, he had some great stories about playing with Sonny in the 70s …

Humans are improvisational creatures. We don’t need to “learn” to improvise but, to answer your question we kind of need to know what music you want to improvise over. Quail improvising is different than blues improvising is different from gamelan improvising etc etc etc. I’m a one trick pony...

If it’s “well rehearsed” it’s not improvised.

What, no love for David Weston?

Also acceptable Squeal Swineson Or even more piggy Squeal Swinesow

How could I not have seen this? Pork Chambers

“A noble instrument should be nobly regarded.” - Frederick Zimmerman Alternately: Oinkster Piggieford Jon Boar Pigsty Heath Sow Jones William Porker Buddy Piglet That’s all I got.

Just jazz v/b duos, or with saxophone. My friend Dan had done a bunch of Bach reductions for tenor sax and bass, no libretto there but I imagine there’s plenty of Bach, Purcell, Boccharini, etc that might have. And don’t forget the John Dowland and contemporaries stuff…

Hope it’s playable in your world zone…

A huge loss for our community. I met him at Berklee, he and Makoto Ozone were playing all the time and with EVERYBODY!

The Mingus bass is called the dragon head bass, so there’s that. The “sacred geometry” thing is the Fibonacci series, also known as the Golden Ratio. I, too, was fascinated by the sound AND appearance of Glen Moore’s Klotz when I heard it live and my desire to own a bass with a lion’s head...

I really miss Paul Warburton…

Maybe contact Jeff Bollbach off board, he did work for Barrie once upon a time. He likely won’t converse about that in a public forum tho’…

Not sure I agree. It can be a kind of “get out of jail free” card; I didn’t practice but at least I feel bad about it…

Yup, Oliv D, Chorda G…

I think I’m sticking with this…

I’ve had an Oliv D on both my basses for quite some time and I dig them

It’s not that new, I bought one of these probably 04 or 05. Had to stop using it when Jeff Bollbach did the upgrade on my German bass and I put a Mike Pecanic tailpiece on it. Don’t really remember how the mic placement sounded, might have to pull it back out to see…

It’s hard to get past the jacket on MAGICAL SHEPHERD…

In answer to the OP, I don’t own this rekkid, nor do I have any recognition of hearing it. I will say that my desire to play double bass is because of Mr. Carter’s participation in two recordings-Flora Purim’s STORIES TO TELL and the Rahsaan Roland Kirk/Al Hibbler collaboration A MEETING OF THE...

The other thing to remember is, for better or worse, the history of this music is primarily of those artists whose work appeared on recordings and critically in print. And the folks who generally were making decisions about who got recorded and who got written about were male. The ability to own...

You must have LOVED the live at Sweet Basil’s Piccolo Bass recording…

There are more matte colors than those two….

If you’re as big a fan of Neal’s playing as I am, you might be interested in his book of compositions, available here. The group I worked with in NYC played his tunes SWEET TOOTH (contrafact on SWEET AND LOVELY) and LOCKE BOP (for drummer Eddie Locke, contrafact on BEST THING FOR YOU). Fun...

Barcelona or San Miguel de Allende…

I’ve been using the GK MB112X with my Clarus, they still show up for sale on the secondary market. Friend of mine, Sam Edwards, uses the Phil Jones cab with two 8” speakers and gets a great sound….

Yeah, my bad...

Carlos Enriquez!

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A sad day.

Long, but worth it… https://halgalper.com/articles/practice-and-performance-goals/

Go to the section that begins with “Hal’s latest post” https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/overdue-ovation-hal-galper/

Well, all basses are different. But I love using a mic…

Just remember, it's GIGO - garbage in, garbage out. If you have a diffuse, unfocused, and tentative sound coming out of the amp when you're accompanying at an audible volume, it will be a LOUDER diffused, unfocused, and tentative sound when you increase the amp's volume level either by pedal...

That's kind of contingent on where you're trying to sell it, where in the world are you? You putting an ad in the paper, Facebook marketplace, or taking it to a double bass shop? When I was selling my German bass, I went to some of the bass shops online (Upton, Bass Violin Shop, FinlayGage...

To me, this points to a few things you need to work on, the big one being ear training. Even for tunes you haven't heard before, particularly for those standards from the Great American Songbook that are using super functional harmony, you need to be able to LOOK at the chart and HEAR what's...