Quote # 64 by Mike Stern

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“Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can’t take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.”   – Mike Stern     Mike Stern (born Michael Philips Stern; January 10, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. After playing for a few years with […]

Quote # 37 by Jaco Pastorius

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“It ain’t braggin´ if you can back it up”   – Jaco Pastorius   Question to Jaco Pastorius: “Would you ever consider playing a 5 string bass?” Jaco answers: “What for? Low E’s been good enough for the last 200 years, what are you trying to prove?”   Jaco Pastorius is one of my absolute […]

Yiorgos Fakanas is a Greek musician

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Yiorgos Fakanas is a Greek musician, bassplayer, composer, orchestrator, author, producer, publisher, professor of Bass and Jazz theory.   To give you a flavor of Yiorgos musicianship, listen to the following videos and sound clips:   Y.F.G. performing “footprints” Live @ Cotton Club (Tokyo, Japan, 2011) The musicians are; Yiorgos Fakanas – Bass Guitar, Anthony […]