Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here is a video of the great Boguslaw Furtok playing a seven minute excerpt from the Bottesini Gran Duo Concertante with violinist Sha Ye. I’m not sure where this performance is taking place, but it sounds great.
I have performed this piece a few times with a fabulous Portuguese violinist at Northwestern University, and it [...]

I have several students preparing for an audition at Juilliard at the moment. Over the years I have had many students audition at this institution, and I thought that it would be valuable to relate some advice given by New York Philharmonic double bassist and Juilliard instructor Orin O’Brien. First, the audition [...]

Hope you all enjoyed last week’s episode of Contrabass Conversations. If you didn’t catch it (or want to listen to any older episodes), just click the ‘Contrabass Conversations‘ tab at the top of this blog.
This week we bring you a great interview with double bassist Kathryn Nettleman. Kate and I also recently recorded [...]

Thanks to all of the people sending instruments to add to the Bass Blog For Sale Page. Check out the page to see what’s available, and feel free to e-mail me if you’ve got some gear you’d like listed.

I just discovered this blog post containing some stunning photos from Africa.

Bassist Dan Pliskow sent me this funny gig story a couple of weeks ago, and I thought that readers would get a kick out of it:
In 2001 I got a call to work a quartet job at Greenfield Village thatmeant playing seven days a week from noon to 3 PM. Part of the [...]

Podcasting News wrote a post highlighting two classical music podcasts. I think it is great to see more podcasts covering this art form crop up. You can check out the Podcasting News post here. Both of these podcasts originate from Germany, which seems to be where most of the classical music podcasts [...]

I just added two new basses to the Bass Blog For Sale Page. One is selling for $6000, and one is selling for $13,000. Check it out, and feel free to e-mail me if you have any basses, bows, or other gear that you’d like listed.

I am a big fan of gig stories from classical musicians (you can read my own stories here). I had an e-mail sent to me a little while back letting me know about bassist Justin Locke and his book of classical music gig stories titled Real Men Don’t Rehearse. I’ll include ordering information [...]

There was a very cute cat post from Gizmodo recently. The author’s cat (shown below) Anya is really into this thing. Anya looks a lot like my cat Dan, and they seem to share the same curiosity about strange mechanical things.
Here’s a video of Anya versus the giant dragonfly. I love how [...]