Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here is an excerpt of the fabulous Boguslaw Furtok playing an excerpt from the last movement of the Cesar Franck Violin Sonata in A. Ewa Warykiewicz is accompanying on piano, and you’ll be seeing more of this great player on the blog in the near future. To see more bass videos, [...]

I’d like to thank all of the bassists who have either sent me their MySpace URL or else become my friend on MySpace. I am in the process of going through and finding friends of my new friends who play bass and adding them to the archive, so it will continue to grow. [...]

Most bassists who don’t hold the principal chair in a major symphony orchestra can count on one had the times that they get to play a solo in orchestra. Double bass is an instrument that does not usually fall into the solo spotlight during your typical orchestra concert, and any occasion to play a [...]

A link to this article was sent to me from bassist John Grillo. I’m not going to offer any commentary on this. The link is below:
Cleveland Scene - February 14, 2007
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The cats are now running things here.

All they ask is that you don’t pick them up.

I just put together the first promo for Contrabass Conversations. Feel free to download it and pass it around to anyone who might be interested in the show, or subscribe to get it (plus the regular CBC episodes). I’d like to thank my fiancée Courtney Lawhn (pictured here) for doing the voice work [...]

Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony double bassist Andy Anderson has just been appointed as a member of the bass faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. This is really exciting news both for Andy and for the bass community at large.
Here’s why:

Andy is [...]

I just added Chicago jazz and classical bassist Kells Nollenberger’s MySpace page to the Double Bass MySpace archive. Kells is an awesome jazz and classical double bassist, and he also has done a ton of electric playing as well. Check out his MySpace page here.
Kells was the bass player in Ted Atkatz’s [...]

Russell Kahle recently e-mailed me this absolutely stunning performance of and excerpt from Carnaval in Venezia by Giovanni Bottesini. This is how to play the bass! Listen to the sparkle and virtuosity of this performance–really amazing.

OK–I started the double bass archive page I had blogged about yesterday. This is going to be a big and probably never ending task, but I will update it regularly, so feel free to email me or become my MySpace friend so I can get your MySpace URL.
Here’s a link to the archive. [...]