Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Have you ever wondered if the upright bassist can effectively slap on their instrument like the electric bassist can? Well, check out this supremely funky solo by Charnett Moffett on “Return Expedition” with guitarist Stanley Jordan. Charnett’s bass solo happens at the top and is several minutes long.

The tune cuts off abruptly [...]

Here is a photo of J.J. Wiggins with the Mercer Ellington Orchestra:
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In the first part of this series I described the utter nastiness that results when you combine cabs and double basses. The horrible experiences from this first installment have given me an irrational hatred of cabs. I never take them, bass or no bass. To this day, even the very sight of [...]

This is the 100th bass video on the blog! Each one has some commentary and information about the player, hall, orchestra, piece, and the like, so have fun browsing through the bass video archives and checking out all the differences in playing styles.
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Here’s a shot of Italian rockabilly bassist Fabio Cinque from a live concert in Palermo. Fabio is a member of Adel’s, a rockabilly band from Caltanissetta in Sicily, and you can check them out at www.myspace.com/adelsrockabilly. If only my bass were half as stylin’ as this one!
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We’ve got some new items listed on the bass blog For Sale page, including a Victor Quenoil bass (the same model as Rabbath’s) for sale from San Diego Symphony principal bassist Jeremy Kurtz. Check out the For Sale page for more details.

I have been working on several new gig stories and music-related articles this summer, and I will be putting out the next part in my series Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles tomorrow. I will basically be putting out a new article or story each week, and I’ll probably alternate each week, with a ‘heavier’ [...]

The Rest is Noise alerted me to a recent Wall Street Journal column by About Last Night blogger Terry Teachout. He writes:

“We’re the last generation of newspaper critics, you know,” a New York drama critic told me the other day. “After us, everybody will be online.” Forecasts of Apocalypse Tomorrow usually turn out to [...]

John Floeter sent me a link to an insanely funny service called Gizoogle which allows you to read my blog in glorious Snoop Dog jive talk. You can click here to read the whole site in jive (warning–lots of profanity if you try it) , or check out this version of my Contrabass Conversations [...]

There isn’t any identifying information tagged with this video about who this bass player is or what orchestra he is playing with, so if anybody out there has more information, let me know and I’ll roll it into this post.
This is a fabulous rendition of a section from Bottesini’s Duo Concertante for Cello and Bass. [...]