You find amazing things on the internet, and often without looking for them. I was at lunch one day recently and heard a bit of classical music playing. I don’t really care for classical music, but I do have a fondness for the piano and, especially, the cello. Rock and jazz are what interst me, [...]

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I interviewed Patrick Pfeiffer, jazz bassist and author of Bass Guitar for Dummies for bassplaying.com. The bulk of the interview took place during a telephone call back on June 2, 2006. We followed that up with a few emails back and forth to clarify certain points. I finally marked it up and published it yesterday. [...]

I’ve sat through my share of music instruction videos. Evidently, so has dj kels Kel McKeown. This magical video mashup (embedded Quicktime video) of three unrelated instructional videos is amazing. The vids are by drummer Louie Bellson, guitarist Emily Remler, and bassist Beaver Felton. Works like this are a good argument for allowing artists to [...]

I’ll probably watch anything that has Naomi Watts in it. I even watched The Ring Two. It was 21 Grams that sold me on her. And she’s good even in bad movies, so I took a chance on her (and on Ewan McGregor, who is generally good) in Stay. It’s a film by Marc Forster, [...]