Jon Dreyer: Links

• Bass
  • Gollihur Music: pretty much everything for the double bass
  • Electric Upright Bass Database
  • eub_list (Electric Upright Basses)
  • Bruno Råberg
  • Bass Northwest
  • Bass luthiers I have used and recommend
    • Mark Carlsen, The Set Up Shop
    • Zachary Martin
  • Other Boston-area bass luthiers I've heard good things about
    • Volker Nahrmann
    • Upton Bass
• Jazz around Boston
  • Acton Jazz Café: A real, smoke-free jazz club in a strip mall that seems more appropriate for a dry cleaner or a pizza joint. The cover all goes to the musicians, so remember to buy some food and drink to help pay the staff and the rent.
  • Wally's Café
  • Les Zygomates
  • Ryles
  • Scullers
  • Regattabar
  • The Beehive
  • Lily Pad
  • New England Conservatory Jazz
  • Berklee
  • JazzBoston
• Recording Studios
  • Notable Productions
  • Madden Music Studio
• Violin shops
  • Zachary S. Martin
  • Douglas Cox Violins, Brattleboro VT
  • Stamell Strings, Amherst MA
  • Johnson String Instrument, Newton MA
  • Quinn Violins, Golden Valley MN
  • Shar
  • Skinner
• Orchestras I've played in
  • Boston Philharmonic
  • Fairfax Symphony
  • Lexington Symphony (ok, I've never played in the Symphony, but BJ has, and I'm their webmaster)
• Maestronet
• Books etc
  • The Vanilla Book (Vanilla changes to jazz tunes)
  • Jamey Aebersold Jazz
  • Sher Music
• Jazz Camps
  • The summer program at the Vermont Jazz Center. The amazing faculty there has included Marcus McLaurine, Jamie MacDonald, Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Howard Brofsky, Valery Ponomarev, Pete Yellin, Harvey Diamond, Eugene Uman, Helmut Kagerer, Claire Arenius, and Satoshi Takeishi
  • Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps
  • Jazz Vermont - Big Band Camp for Grown Ups
  • Jamey Aebersold summer jazz workshops
  • Lowell Jazz Day Camp
• Ken Burns Jazz, more or less, in three minutes
• Bill Evans Jazz Resource

Jon Dreyer • 781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email