Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I recently discovered this site devoted to the great double bassist François Rabbath. It was created by one of Rabbath’s relatives and is a great place to start learning about this double bass virtuoso and master pedagogue. It contains a links page to recordings and publications, information about news and workshops, and [...]

Here is a great double bass video performance of Vittorio Monti’s Czardas on the double bass. This bassist looks a little like me!

Today (12/18/06) the Bass Blog passed a new record for both visits and page views, with 222 unique visits and 575 page views today. That makes just under 12,000 unique visits since July 2006 (when I started keeping track of these stats) and over 30,000 page views for the same period. It is [...]

If you look at the tabs you will see that there is now a tab specifically for bass videos. I noticed that a lot of people like to check out the bass videos I have posted here, so I thought a devoted tab for those would be good. I’m trying not to go [...]

I was recently poking around on Wikipedia, and I noticed that I have been cited as a reference several times on the entry for the Karr-Koussevitzky double bass. I played a recital on this bass six months ago, and it’s great that people have included my articles in the list of references. Check [...]

Patti from oboeinsight wrote a recent post highlighting a list of the top 51 (51?) most popular classical music blogs. Her blog comes in at #15, which is pretty cool. The list was compiled by Scott Spiegelberg from the Musical Perceptions blog. Check out his list here.
I’ve just got one question–how come [...]

The Washington Post had an article last year on double bass soloist and Northwestern University instructor DaXun Zhang. I just recently discovered it. Here is an excerpt:

The double bass is one of the few remaining instruments that have never produced a bankable star in classical music. [...]

I was recently listening to the Amateur Traveler podcast (great show), and they had a recent episode on traveling to Peru and visiting Machu Picchu. One of the resources listed in the show notes was this great virtual tour of the ruins. Click the picture below to check it out,
This virtual tour consists [...]

We just finished up our IRIS Chamber Orchestra concert with the bluegrass trio Time for Three, and these guys completely brought down the house. It was really amazing. These three guys (Zach, Nick, and Ranaan) combine the best of bluegrass with the best of classical playing. Their tunes are filled with quotes [...]

This is an absolutely hilarious video from Dr. Demento favorite Rob Paravonian. Rob hates the Pachelbel Canon and describes why in this very clever bit: