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nbbrecords-april-best-seller-contrabbassata NBB album of the Month: La Contrabbassata
On 11 May 2019 | 0 Comments |

“La Contrabbassata” by  The Bass Gang is April best seller album! Recorded in 2005, is still one of NBBrecords touchstone albums. While waiting for the fantastic quartet’s new album, we can go and read again the nice review by Riccardo Valsecchi on X-Bass Magazine at the time of the album’s release: http://win.xbass.org/Ita/xbassN1/BassGang1.php The Bass Gang […]

nbbrecords-news-puglia-sliding doors ‘Sliding doors’ by Alberto Bocini: remember NOT to turn off mobile phones…
On 6 April 2019 | 0 Comments |

Un’evento speciale quello che la rassegna “Musica Civica 2019” riserva all’oggetto più amato – e a volte più odiato – della nostra quotidianità. Onnipresente, invadente, il telefono ha cambiato il nostro modo di vivere e, almeno durante il brano di Alberto Bocini, anche il nostro modo di assistere a un concerto dato che saranno proprio […]

Perpignan-Capbreton-Perpignan: “andata e ritorno” of a prestigious Double Bass Festival
On 3 April 2019 | 0 Comments |

Gérard Massat, former professor at the Conservatoire de Perpignan, was the instigator of the first stages of Prades (1983 to 1985). In 1990, Bernard Salles, with his luthier friend Christian Nogaro, created the Capbreton Festival, which for 24 years attracted the world’s greatest names in the world of bass, and became a world reference. Back […]

John Patitucci at Geneva HEM
On 14 March 2019 | 0 Comments |

Great event at HEM in Geneva:  MASTER CLASS by John Patitucci  Sunday 19th March, 2019 9h30 – 12h30 Salle de la Bourse, rue du Grütli, 5   ► more info here ► Site internet de John Patitucci

NBB Touchstone of the Month: Sentido Unico
On 9 March 2019 | 0 Comments |

Diciotto anni fa, nel dicembre 2001, la neonata NBBrecords produceva “Sentido Unico”, unendo  al contrabbasso e al pianoforte due grandi artisti e raffinati musicisti:  Ezio Bosso e Gustavo Beytelmann. Il tempo ha reso questo album ancora più pregiato, testimonianza sonora della passione e del virtuosismo strumentale dei suoi protagonisti. La musica è come la vita, […]

The Bass Gang LIVE!
On 28 February 2019 | 0 Comments |

 The Bass Gang will be touring in Italy during the month of March. More dates will be announced soon. March 3, Sunday, h 17.00 – Rovigo March 8, Friday – Fiumicino (Roma) March 8, Friday, h 18.00 – Roma Montesacro March 10, Sunday, h 11.30 – Roma Parco della Musica March 10, Sunday – Poggio […]

“Eduard Nanny” Solo Competition – Biarritz International Bass Academy
On 2 February 2019 | 0 Comments |

From 29 July to 4 August 2019 in Biarritz, France, will take place the International Bass Academy, artistic director Thierry Barbé. Teachers involved: Thierry Barbé, Cédric Carlier, Nicolas Crosse, Ján Prievoznik, Edmond Cheng, Marc Buronfosse, Ján Krigovský, Bea Marin. On August 4th (at the end of the course) will be possible to partecipate in the […]

Alberto Bocini “Hey, good to see you! (again)”
On 20 January 2019 | 0 Comments |

The premiere of “Hey, good to see you! (again)“, a brand new composition for 2 double basses by Alberto Bocini, was held in Pelotas, Brazil, on Januar 18th, 2019,  at the 9° Internacional Festival Sesc de Mùsica. Dedicated to the brazilian double bass player Eder Kinappe, performer in the recital together with Bocini, the music […]

New release: THE DOUBLE BASS IN THE ORCHESTRA FROM HAYDN TO STRAVINSKY (book)
On 28 December 2018 | 0 Comments |

A basic approach to orchestral repertoire for beginners and advanced players see the product “A publication that offers students a method to address and solve specific technical difficulties linked to the practice of the double bass in orchestra. It is for this purpose that this book was conceived. The book is intended mainly for students […]

Giuseppe Ettorre “L’infinito minimale”
On 20 December 2018 | 0 Comments |

Giuseppe Ettorre shares his thoughts about double bass practising in the new issue of “Archi Magazine”. You can read it here: http://www.archi-magazine.it/articoli.php?art=31 E’ necessario considerare ogni punto di arrivo come una nuova base di partenza, un nuovo stimolo ad aggiornare il nostro software e ad aumentare la nostra risoluzione, per compiere un ulteriore avvicinamento all’infinito minimale […]