Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Rolle from BassFireBlog just left me a comment pointing out these two great sites from Jonas Lohse in Germany. One site is his own blog:http://www.kontrabassblog.de/
It is an all-German site. My German is pretty terrible, so reading the posts is slow for me, but it is a really excellent blog. He has [...]

Playing movements of the Bach cello suites is a must for all bass players these days. It is a requirement for many (if not most) orchestral auditions, and it is a bass player’s only real opportunity to play solo works from this great master.
Several challenges arise when playing the Bach cello suites. The [...]

Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues will be playing this weekend at Oak Park’s beautiful Unity Temple. The Unity Temple was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 20th century, and it is really a magnificent building and a great place to hear a concert.
The unity temple’s website is:
www.unitytemple.org
Click on the following link to learn [...]

These guys are great players. Check them out if you happen to be in Southern Wisconsin the weekend. Here is their recent announcement:
This weekend, July 21-23, is the Badgerland Bluegrass Classic! Southern Wisconsin’s largest Bluegrass festival of the season. This year at a new location more centrally located, Jefferson County Fair Park. [...]

I am beginning to create a double bass blogroll for my site, and one thing I am discovering is how few double bass blogs there are out there. This is surprising to me. Most of the ones that I have found haven’t been in the U.S. My favorite bass blog by far [...]

I am playing “The Student Prince” for the Music by the Lake festival in Williams Bay, Wisconsin this week. Williams Bay is on the shores of Lake Geneva and is a really beautiful setting for a concert. The concerts take place at Aurora University, which is an extremely attractive campus set on the [...]

I am in the process of transferring my June recital on Gary Karr’s former bass onto my blog. You will be able to listen to the tracks here, download them, or subscribe to the recital itself as a podcast and have iTunes (or another such program) put it on your iPod.
Method #1: Click the [...]

I don’t know if readers of my blog have been checking out the excellent website chicagoclassicalmusic.org recently, but if not they really should (especially Chicagoans). There are really great articles, chats, links, and concert information. This blog features multiple authors from many different musical organizations in Chicago. Some recent articles include:

Wynne [...]

Most of my YouTube content will be posted on my spin-off blog bassfun.blogspot.com, but some topical videos will also be posted here. A lot of internet cafes and schools block YouTube, so if you just see blank white boxes in some of my posts then that is most likely what’s happening. Check it [...]

I just stumbled across this great video of violinist Maxim Verngerov and several bass players playing Monti’s “Czardas”. Does anyone know who these bassists (particularly the one playing the solo part) are? Leave me a comment if you know. Stephen Swanson (of the Spokane Symphony) tells me that the solo bass is [...]