Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I may regret starting this mammoth project, but I am going to try to provide a listing of double bass pages on MySpace. I have always had a hard time figuring out how to link to these pages. Are they blogs? Sometimes, but usually not.
I like it whenever I find a [...]

Jacque Harper sent me a link to this recent post from On An Overgrown Path. It is a review of Vivaldi and the Number 3 by Ron Butlin, which sounds like a very interesting book. Check out the post here–it’s a lot of fun, and it looks like a good book.

If you want to read about real winter misery, check out my story titled Freelancing + Snow = Pain.
We’ve been socked left and right with horrible, miserable weather here in Chicago this month. First we got hit by a massive Arctic bubble of air, plunging temperatures down to around zero degrees Fahrenheit. Wind [...]

This is a great video of Monti’s Czardas by double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Guanaco from the Cellomania blog recently sent me a link to this post.
Digging through my archives, I realized that I had posted this before but had not correctly archived it [...]

Gmail has now been officially opened to the public worldwide. If you haven’t gotten a Gmail account yet, you should definitely sign up for one. I pay Yahoo! Mail $20 a year for fewer features than Gmail gives you for free. Gmail is now available in the following languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, [...]

Former Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist was featured in a recent New York Times article. Double bassist John Grillo let me know about this article, which is definitely worth a read.
I played with Ted in the American Russian Youth Orchestra (see my crazy gig story about this trip), which was a really insane trip. [...]

Are you in the mood for some rip-roaring, top-notch bass playing? Then check out this video of double bassist Alper Mufettisoglu playing an extremely virtuosic rendition of Gliere’s Tarantella, the fourth in his series of pieces for the double bass.

This is the fourth installment of my Road Warrior without an Expense Account series. The intent of this installment is to highlight the increased competition for the progressively decreasing full-time orchestral positions. The statistics I present here are only theoretical and may certainly differ from the exact number or audition openings and candidates, but [...]

 

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This is a special Recital Showcase edition of Contrabass Conversations featuring the music of John Grillo. John was interviewed on Contrabass Conversations episode 6. This episode is a live performance of John’s complete recital, which was performed in Pittsburgh, PA in 2006.
You can also visit John’s Recital Showcase page or subscribe to the [...]

Here is episode 7 of Contrabass Conversations! In this episode we continue our interview with Andy Anderson from the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Grant Park Symphony. You can subscribe to Contrabass Conversations in iTunes by clicking the following button:

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