Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Ars Antigua will be performing the following concerts this weekend (information from a recent announcement):
Friday evening November 10 at 7:30pmMoser Performing Arts CenterUniversity of St Francis500 Wilcox StreetJoliet, IllinoisFor more information call 800.735.7500.
Saturday November 11 at 2pmQuigley ChapelRush at Pearson in ChicagoThis free, one hour concert will be held in partnership with The Chicago [...]

Matt Murray of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb pointed out a great Edgar Meyer video clip from A&E’s Breakfast With the Arts. He and Bela Fleck play and are interviewed on the clip. You’ll need Real Player to watch it, and I can’t embed it here, so visit this site to get [...]

This video was recently on the front page of Digg.com. It is a Microsoft video promising a new operating system in October of 2003. It is now almost 2007 and that operating system (Vista) has still not been officially launched. I like how unbelievably excited people are to buy a copy of [...]

One of the problems with Blogger is the difficulty in finding the information you are looking for on a particular blog, especially as the blog grows in size (this blog has almost 500 posts). I have tried to solve this with the navigation bar at the top and the search box to the right, [...]

I have crates of old photos from various trips I have made in the past. Putting together my recent story on Burak prompted me to scan in a set of photos from my Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival trip, and I thought I’d share some more of these shots. These were all taken with [...]

The most interesting thing about this week’s Elgin Symphony concerts is the use of the Hungarian Cimbalon (also spelled Cymbalum). This folk instrument is popular throughout eastern Europe and China, and each country has their own variant of this instrument. It is very much like a small piano without a lid, and felt [...]

Here’s a great video of Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) wrestling Harry Smith on CBS news. I can’t wait to see this movie:

The great pianist Irina Feoktistova (who accompanied me for my recital on the “Amati” bass) also performs with the Millennium Chamber Players. They have several upcoming performances in the Chicago area:
The Millennium Chamber Players proudly announces principal flute Masumi Yoneyama with solo pianist Irina Feoktistova in a recital featuring Cesar Franck’s Sonata in f-minor, [...]

The double bass, electric bass, electric upright,and percussion band Gunnelpumpers is playing this weekend in Chicago. I have seen this great band several times in the past. Michael Hovnanian (Chicago Symphony bassist) and Doug Johnson (whom I play a lot of gigs with) are both in this group, as are many other very [...]

In the summer of 1998 I played bass for the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. This festival takes place in the extreme northern part of Germany very close to the North Sea. It was an absolute blast to play in this festival.

The bass section was filled with a bunch of interesting characters from Venezuela, Sweden, [...]