Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Directing readers to examples of progressive thinking in the orchestra world is one of the goals I have for this blog, including examples of repertoire selection, hiring practices, ideas for audience building, distribution methods (iTunes, podcasting), or any other effective ideas for thinking outside of the box. The San Francisco Symphony held what [...]

Patty Mitchell, the author of the great blog oboeinsight, usually features a quote of the day on her blog. These are usually interesting nuggets of wisdom from various musical figures. She recently posted a quote from a Sequenzia21/ (contemporary classical music blog) post titled The Conservatory by David Salvage.
Here’s the paragraph that [...]

Here’s another example of how blogging is becoming an ever more significant force in our world. Former President Bill Clinton just started a blog. There is only one post so far, but it’s a ‘real’ blog, complete with comments, a sidebar with links, archives, and all of the other blog trappings.
You can check [...]

The great Edgar Meyer in action.
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I recently interviewed Susanne Dunlap, the author of Liszt’s Kiss, about her writing process and the book in general. Susanne also wrote a novel titled Emilie’s Voice, and both this novel and her new novel ae published by Simon & Schuster.
JH: Thanks for agreeing to do this interview, Susanne. I really enjoyed your [...]

On An Overgrown Path is perhaps the best example of how classical music blogging is moving ahead of traditional journalistic outlets. Bob Shingleton has become one of the leading voices in the world of classical music journalism, and he is a prime example of how the blogging medium is actually more useful than newspapers, [...]

Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to hear John offer up valuable advice. [...]

I’m putting up a new poll on the blog each week–it’s located in the sidebar just below the Contrabass Conversations and Twitter widgets. You can vote for more than one option on these polls, and they actually help me to know who’s reading and what people are into. For instance, last week’s poll [...]

Matt Wengerd (104 Weeks) just put up a post highlighting a really cool project that Wired Magazine recently did for its subscribers. When he got home from the Aebersold Jazz Camp, this was what he found in the pile of accumulated mail:
That’s Matt smack dab on the cover of Wired, making what I remember [...]

Following up on yesterday’s story about taking a bass on a train, Joe Lewis related some of his own tales about annoying train travel on a recent post on his blog San Bei Ji. Some of the lines he has often heard include:

Is that a body in there?
Is that your canoe?
That’s a big cello/guitar/whatever!
How do [...]