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0:10 - Ben Allison Crowdsourcing New Album
0:42 - Adam Booker Gear Reviews
1:10 - D’Addario Strings [sponsor]
1:39 - Lauren Pierce New Course
2:14 - Alex Ritter Bass Festival
3:31 - P. Kellach Waddle String Quartet Nomination
4:03 - Bass Capos [sponsor]
4:33 - University of Michigan Faculty Position
5:03 - Fort Worth Symphony Strike Ends
5:42 - Feedback


Ben Allison Crowdsourcing new album
* Ben on Contrabass Conversations this week http://contrabassconversations.com/benallison
* Ben’s website: http://benallison.com
* pre-order new album at http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/benallison
* pledge ends December 28th, so pledge now!

Adam Booker Gear reviews
* University of Minnesota Duluth has started to review gear on YouTube, and the reaction has been tremendous
* he got hundreds of views on his review for his first review
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYxqgRMtTAM
* http://adambookeronbass.com

Lauren Pierce New Thumb Position Course
* on Geoff Chalmers’ newly revamped discoverdoublebass.com site
* New course: http://www.doublebasscourses.com/p/double-bass-thumb-position
* Lauren has been a guest on Entrepreneur Week
* I had Lauren and Geoff on the podcast almost a year ago

Alex Ritter hosts his Double Bass Festival at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
* he’s doing great things for the double bass in Brazil
* check out these photos and hear a bit of his performance of Sconcerto by Trovajoli
* link to Trovajoli:
* TROVAJOLI – I TEMPO DI BLUES – ALEXANDRE RITTER 2016 (YouTube)
* TROVAJOLI – II ALLEGRETTO – ALEXANDRE RITTER 2016 (YouTube)
* TROVAJOLI – III PAVANE – ALEXANDRE RITTER 2016 (YouTube)
* TROVAJOLI – IV SCHERZO – ALEXANDRE RITTER 2016 (YouTube)
* http://contrabassconversations.com/alexritter


P. Kellach Waddle’s 5th String Quartet (including bass) “A Vonnegut Quintet” has been nominated as a semifinalist for the American Prize in Chamber Music
* https://www.facebook.com/pkwaddle
* http://contrabassconversations.com/pkellachwaddle


University of Michigan School of Music

Announces A Faculty Position For:
Teacher of Double Bass
Rank: Open, tenure or tenure-track

Additional Job Information Found At:
http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/133071/teacher_of_double_bass

Professor emeritus Diana Gannett is teaching this year along with Cleveland Orchestra principal bassist Max Dimoff, and you can find their interviews on Contrabass Conversations through links in the show notes.

http://contrabassconversations.com/dianagannett
http://contrabassconversations.com/maxdimoff

Congratulations to the Forth Worth Symphony Bassists

William Clay, Principal
Paul Unger, Assistant Principal
Jeffrey Hall
Julie Vinsant
On reaching an agreement for their long strike. Yesterday they came to an agreement and I am so excited. It's been a long scary process to see such a quality symphony potentially dissolve.

Thanks to Mitch Moehring for the idea!
http://Mitchmoehring.com

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