Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I am playing Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors this week in downtown Chicago at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. The orchestra for this piece is quite small, and I have never played it before. Once I got a recording of it and listened to it, I realized [...]

I play bass for the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra (this is my seventh season), and they always put on a great Nutcracker. Check it out if you’re in southeastern Wisconsin this December!

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Also, check out a reasonably priced complete Nutcracker recording:

…or a higher-end Boston Symphony recording:

Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra is holding a benefit concert for a violinist with cancer. The press announcement states:
Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra to Give Benefit for Cancer-StrickenViolinist Without Health Insurance
By Vivien Schweitzer
04 Nov 2006
Conductor Carlos Kalmar and members of Chicago’s Grant ParkOrchestra will perform a benefit concert on November 17 to raise funds [...]

I have created a lot of videos over the last year on Eyespot.com. This service is extremely cool, and I’d encourage everybody to check it out. I wrote a blog post about all of the features a few months back, and they have expanded their offerings since then. David Dudas of Eyespot [...]

If you are interested in learning more about this subject, check out the follow-up post to this article here.
I have a B.M. and M.M. in Double Bass Performance from Northwestern University. Although I had a good financial package for my undergraduate degree and had a full-tuition fellowship or my graduate degree, I still owe [...]

My good friend Jeff Yang sent this announcement to me recently regarding a benefit for Chicago’s venerable Jazz Showcase. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about this topic that you can read here.
The announcement reads:

Many of you may have heard the Jazz Showcase downtown did not get [...]

The Grass & Eclectic Company
Dynamic Bluegrass & Acoustic Music

Will be performing once again at the Yuletide Fair at Waldorf School!

This Saturday, November 18
3 to 5 PM

Held at Prairie Hill Waldorf School, N14 W29143 Silvernail Road, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Strolling entertainers, live music, storytelling, children’s craft workshops, artisan [...]

National Symphony Orchestra bassist and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeffrey Weisner just started a double bass blog. Check it out here. I am also adding it to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. Jeffrey recently wrote a post about his National Symphony colleague Ira Gold. Ira and I used [...]

Last night the Chicago Philharmonic played in Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. You can read my previous post about the concert here, or read all of my recent concert posts here.
I have played countless concerts in this hall for the past over the past 15 years, and I always forget what a strange and [...]

Matthew Wengerd recently posted this Milt Hinton video on his 104 Weeks blog. Check out his post here , his website here, or his personal blog here. This is a cool bass video: