Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I blogged about this site last summer, but I was again just spending some time on DoubleBassGuide.com, a great resource for players of the instrument out of Germany. The site is operated by Jonas Lohse, who also maintains a double bass blog. It has articles, a gear guide, and a great bass [...]

Singapore-based bass ensemble d’Bassists just put out a video of one of their performances featuring a tune by Tony Osbourne. Tony has written a lot of bass ensemble music, much of which can be quite fun to play. Here is the most recent video from d’Bassists:

Composed by Tony Osborne in 1981. Publisher: [...]

Dark Roasted Blend, one of my favorite blogs, put out a jaw-dropping series on extreme off-roading. Ever since putting out my exploding car story, I have felt a compulsion to share crazy automotive exploits, so here is a sampling of some photos from this recent DRB post. You can check out the complete [...]

Contrabass Conversations and TalkBass.com have joined forces this week. If you visit talkbass.com/cbc, you will be taken to the Contrabass Conversations sponsored forums on TalkBass, where you can suggest guests, comment on previous shows, suggest stories and news items for the podcast, and exchange general podcast feedback and ideas in general.
This is a [...]

One of the challenges as one’s blog grows in size is finding an efficient way of organizing all of the various posts on the blog to make them accessible and useful to readers. I have tried to be as user-friendly as possible on the bog, with tabs and a search box at the top, [...]

Bass blog contributor Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me this great photo and accompanying story:

Some claim that commuting around London is getting to be really difficult and expensive. Not so for my colossal friend John Bakewell!
As former Principle Bass of the London’s Royal Opera House, John likes to while away his retirement hours playing his Stradinini bass [...]

This video features a performance of the second movement of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies with Wolfgang Güttler in Basel. I have worked with Güttler in the past, and I can see a lot of [...]

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers). Anyway, she does a weekly wrap-up that I always find [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with and music from Chicago Symphony bassist Rob Kassinger. Rob’s musical interests span many genres and include both the electric bass and the double bass. You will learn about Rob’s early years on the bass and how working in jazz and rock settings led to [...]

I just received this story from bass blog contributor Phillip Serna documenting an infuriating experience at the airport with this viola da gamba. It is quite fitting that I got this story just a day after putting out the first part of my Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles series.
Phillip writes:
You won’t believe this.
I was [...]