Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Bass Blog reader Trevor Bortins sent me a link to this very interesting site about the “new” violin family known as the the violin octet. I have done some reading and heard some musical examples regarding this set of acoustically well-proportioned instruments, and the logic behind these instruments is quite clear. Invented [...]

University of North Texas and Cleveland Institute of Music bass professor Jeff Bradetich will be hosting his annual master classes this coming week in Denton, Texas. With that in mind (and with some gentle nagging from my students), I’m putting Jeff’s technique packet up as a PDF download. This packet is the [...]

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Here is another excellent video from Trio bass’in, the excellent French bass ensemble consisting of Gilles Rivière, David Cadiou and Olivier Quesne. You can also check them out on a post from last week. Enjoy!

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Note - I wrote this post before checking through my daily blog reads, at which point I found that Matt Wengerd had already blogged this story. Check out his post on this tale from Michael Hovnanian’s CSO Bass Blog.
Michael Hovnanian (this coming weekend’s Contrabass Conversations guest) just wrote a great post titled Showdown at [...]

Double bassist Christian Dillingham has a set of Velvet strings for sale. The information is listed below, and I also added it to the For Sale page of the blog.
If you have any instruments, bows, music, or other gear for sale, e-mail me (jsh177@yahoo.com) and I’ll list it on the For Sale page of [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features a continuation of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst plus some music from plus some music from the Italian bass ensemble The Bass Gang. You can check out episode 20 of the podcast for the first part of this interview with Mr. Hurst, and [...]

Here’s a video of jazz bass giant Eddie Gomez taking an extended solo. Not sure what program this was pulled from, but it’s great to both hear and see Eddie play.

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Check out this cool double bass montage:
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This week on Contrabass Conversations we are concluding the interview with double bassist Kathryn Nettleman that we began on episode 12 of the podcast. Also, this week we feature some jazz bass from Brooklyn musician Kevin Tkacz plus current news on the bass scene. Enjoy!
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CBC 27 Show Notes

Release Date: 7/1/07
Length: 30:28
Website: www.contrabassconversations.com
E-mail: [...]