Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me a link to this beautifully created video of 500 female portraits amalgamated into one continuous video (a la Michael Jackson’s ‘Black and White’ video, for those of you who watched MTV in the early 1990’s). Benjy has contributed several articles to the blog in the past–you can visit all [...]

This story also has an audio and video version!
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I hate driving.
I am also a bass player.
This is a problem.
As I watch my violinist, flutist, and clarinetist colleagues getting off of the train outside of a gig while I circle frantically for a parking spot (legal or illegal—anything! I’m running late!), my eyes [...]

The great Boguslaw Furtok plays ‘Polo’ by Manuel de Falla in this great video:

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Here is a great, contemplative shot of Dave Arenius playing the double bass:
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I am playing a chamber music festival this week and next week in Door County, Wisconsin. The schedule is busy and internet access is extremely limited, so don’t wonder where I went if you don’t hear from me for a day or two. Summer is a time for kicking back, relaxing and maybe [...]

I just did a great interview with Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bassist Jeff Turner yesterday for Contrabass Conversations. I think that folks will really get a lot of this interview, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to get to sit down wit Jeff and learn his perspectives on the bass and the orchestra business.
This weekend [...]

The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music bass studio has a tradition that they call Burger Madness. Bass blog contributor Nicholas Hart is a member of Albert Laszlo’s CCM bass studio, and he sent me a link to this video documenting the tradition:

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Drew McManus wrote an interesting post recently on his blog Adaptistration concerning the current labor situation in the San Antonio Symphony. San Antonio Symphony musicians have authorized a strike if there is no new agreement in place to replace their current collective bargaining agreement (expiring at the end of the summer).
Some [...]

IRIS Orchestra and Dayton Philharmonic pianist Joshua Nemith put up a great post recently on his Cincinnati Pianist Blog about how to practice efficiently by organizing one’s work into 10 minute blocks. He elaborates on a post by Chris Foley (writer for the Collaborative Pianist blog) about how to organize one’s time in this [...]

This video features a performance of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. There is a loud buzz at the opening of the video, but keep watching–the fidelity gets better. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies with Wolfgang Güttler in Basel.
I have worked [...]