Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This YouTube video by Lasse Gjertsen is a real work of art. He can’t play piano or drums, yet through stop motion video editing manages to stitch together a complete tune. Check it out:

I just read on The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross that David Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute has launched an online archive containing all of Mozart’s works. According to the License Agreement for the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Digital Mozart Edition):
The purpose of this web site is to make [...]

I recently found this fun program designed to calculate the worth of your blog. I’m not sure exactly how this number is being processed, but I assume that it involves the number and pagerank of people linking to your blog. Here’s my blog’s current worth:

My blog is worth $22,581.60.How much is [...]

Dr. Paul Wrubel linked to my post on the rising cost of a college education in a recent article on TuitionCoach.com. Thanks, Paul! You can check out his article here. The astronomical increase in college tuition (vastly outpacing even health care costs) is an issue of serious concern, and TuitionCoach.com has some [...]

I was checking my stats on YouTube and Eyespot, and my Amati bass recital video has now been viewed over 3500 times. YouTube has had just under 1000 viewings (not bad–I only put it up there a week ago), and Eyespot has had just over 2500 viewings as of today.
It’s amazing to me how [...]

Eric Hochberg recently sent me a link to some videos by Renaud Garcia-Fons. You can view them here. They are definitely worth checking out. Here is some biographical information about Renaud Garcia-Fons:

Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for using a customised 5-stringed [...]

One of the strangest and most interesting video podcasts I have come across is It’s JerryTime! Check this podcast out–the animation and stories are really surreal. Any of his episodes can be watched on his site, or you can subscribe via iTunes as well. This is a great example of something that [...]

I recently stumbled upon this interview that double bassist Peter Tambroni did with Martin Simpson. Martin has a website called Interviews with Overseas Bass Folk. It’s a great resource, and I just added it to my blogroll under “non-blog bass sites”.
Pete is a great double bass player and educator. He recently wrote [...]

Here’s a great clip of Stephen Colbert singing and playing the bassoon. It’s pretty funny and definitely worth checking out:

While on tour in Russia (see my previous story about my Russian tour) I had the opportunity to ride the subway in both St. Petersburg and Moscow. The following video of the Moscow subway shows a station that is certainly more crowded than any I ever entered, but I do remember being pushed and [...]