Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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When I go to work, I generally leave my bow at home. When it’s time to make the low notes, I don’t bring rosin, a music stand, a music folder or pencils either. I am always the only bass player on the gig – it’s a beautiful thing.
Let me say it straight - I [...]

Bass Blog reader Jon recently let me know about this great resource from Rice University bass professor Paul Ellison on career opportunities in music. This resource is especially relevant considering some of the subjects that have been explored in the past on this blog such as musical entrepreneurship and reinventing music performance degrees.
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A new poll will be launched on the blog every week on Monday. I like polls–it’s interesting to see what readers think or to learn more about their background through such devices, and the results actually help a lot to guide the blog into the future.
This week’s poll surveys people’s educational background, so check [...]

I heard this track a few months ago on the Project Studio Network podcast (a great show for people involved in recording or producing audio content).Some perceptive guy took a couple of Nickelback songs–How You Remind Me from 2001 and and Someday from 2003–and put one track in each stereo channel. The results? [...]

Donovan Stokes, one of our guests back on Contrabass Conversations #13, wrote Titanium Jr. for double bassist Ken Fuller (seen playing in this video). The piece was premiered with orchestra earlier this year. Donovan is a great composer and bassist, and I think that this piece must be a lot of fun to [...]

I really must be a geek if I get this excited about a new search function on the blog, but it’s cool–really! Type a search term into the new box at the top of the blog, and see what happens. Cool, right? The results load up without the page having to reload, [...]

Here’s a great photo of Guy Tuneh (this past week’s Contrabass Conversations guest) and Miloslav Gajdos performing together. I have some time to work on getting some of Miloslav’s videos out this week, so expect to see these coming very soon. Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist and Northeastern Illinois University bass instructor Greg [...]

I spent the majority of this week playing up around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While the concerts were fun and in a beautiful setting, these long drives are slowly killing me, and I see less and less of them in my future.
I played the same festival last year right around the time that I started [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with double bassist Guy Tuneh, conducted over a distance of thousands of miles. It was a real pleasure to get to sit down and chat with Guy–he’s a warm, intelligent, and passionate individual, and these traits come through in his speaking just like they do in [...]

This Sunday you will get to hear Guy Tuneh interviewed on Contrabass Conversations, which should prove to be a very interesting, informative, and satisfying interview for listeners. In the meantime, check out this video podcast episode (under five minutes long) featuring Guy Tuneh playing ‘Suita Piccola’ (written in 1976) by Nieminen Kai.
This video can [...]