Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Phillip Serna has started a musical events calendar for the Chicagoland area. It focuses on his performances, which tend to be orchestral and early music oriented. It is a good cross section of Chicago classical musical events, and recommend checking it out. There will be a permanent link to it [...]

I just read a great post on Andrew Leahey’s blog about eight free alternatives to major applications:

1) Windows replace with Ubuntu. Well, might as well make #1 the biggest. For the average user there is absolutely no reason to pay Microsoft for the (wonderful) experience of running Windows XP. So you should pirate it? [...]

Here’s a short movie of my kayaking adventures today. My brother and dad are putting together a Folbot and taking it out on a creek that Jesse James jumped back in the day:

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I just read a new post by Renaud Garcia-Fons in the International Society of Bassists Events page:

On the 28th of October, departing on an Air France/Alitalia flight [...]

Earlier this week Blogger unveiled its new Beta version. I have been playing with this service and am extremely happy with the new features Blogger is unveiling. Blogger, originally created by Pyra Labs was one of the pivotal fores n the explosion of the blogosphere over the last several years. [...]

Recently I have been using Odeo, the podcasting/content management system, for my double bass MP3 audio content. It is a very slick service. They give you very easy-to-use content management tools. Odeo will host your audio content for free (unlimited), and they provide you with many methods of accessing, publicizing, and distributing [...]

There are four main methods used to find a bass. In this post I will write briefly about these methods and their benefits and drawbacks. These are my opinions based on my own bass searches and those of my students. I welcome any feedback and comments on any of these methods. [...]

Cleveland Orchestra bassist Charles Barr was struck and killed by a truck this past Friday. He was riding home from work on his bicycle. Charles and I were the same age, and we had worked together when I subbed in the New World Symphony. Before becoming a member of the Cleveland Orchestra [...]

I live in Evanston, Illinois, which is a college town just north of Chicago. It has a population of just under 100,000 people. Most of it is densely populated, much like Chicago. South Evanston in fact looks almost exactly like Chicago.

Evanston is a beach town. That statement may seem strange to [...]

I am working on adding some new features to my blog. In the navigation bar at the top of the blog you will now see a “downloads” tab. It’s taking a while, but I am making available several hundred MP3s, PDFs, and the like that I have generated for my own double bass [...]