John Goldsby returns to the podcast to celebrate Big Band Bass, a project that spotlights the double bass at the front of the band alongside the legendary WDR Big Band and arranger/conductor Bob Mintzer. We talk about what it felt like to close a 30-year run in one of the world’s rare full-time jazz ensemble… Continue reading 1144: John Goldsby on Big Band Bass
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783: John Goldsby on Tell Your Story
John Goldsby is one of the world’s best-known jazz bassists and a course creator for Discover Double Bass. His latest course Tell Your Story covers the topic of developing jazz soloing abilities. We talk about this course, what it’s like filming courses for Discover Double Bass, John’s latest album Segment (check out his website for… Continue reading 783: John Goldsby on Tell Your Story
680: Working as a Jazz Bassist
Today’s episode features the following past podcast guests on the topic of what it’s like working these days as a jazz bassist: Ben Allison – NYC Dan Chmielinski – NYC Herbert Smith – Brazil John Goldsby – Germany Katie Thiroux – Los Angeles Kenneth Knudson – Denmark Larry Gray – Chicago Rufus Reid – NYC… Continue reading 680: Working as a Jazz Bassist
589: John Goldsby on his Building Up course
John Goldsby has recently released a new course on Discover Double Bass called Building Up. This course contains four hours of video in 45 different lessons. Many of the tracks feature piano and drum accompaniment and also include tracks without the bass so you can practice along. The course is perfect for intermediate to advanced… Continue reading 589: John Goldsby on his Building Up course
397: John Goldsby on writing books, life overseas, and innovation
Where do you even start when you’re talking with John Goldsby? I mean, this is the person who literally wrote the book on jazz bass playing with his groundbreaking work The Jazz Bass Book. I’ve been reading articles by John in Bass Player Magazine ever since I picked up the instrument, and it was such… Continue reading 397: John Goldsby on writing books, life overseas, and innovation