Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Has anyone out there done much playing on these “chopped off” tour basses? I wonder if they are much easier to get on a plane and how closely the sound resembles that of a standard bass.
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I spent this entire week in Wisconsin, first driving to Madison to play in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, then heading up to Milwaukee to play a yearly concert called Gathering On the Green about 20 miles north of Milwaukee. This kind of driving reminds me of what it was like playing in the [...]

 

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This week we are continuing our conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist Michael Hovnanian that we began on Episode 24 of the podcast. Michael has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1989, and he serves as the president of Discordia Music (double bass music publisher). Michael also plays for the Gunnelpumpers, [...]

DePaul University student Brandon Mitchell is seen here performing the second movement of the Hindemith Sonata. Click here for his performance of the first movement, or click here for his performance of the first movement of the Bottesini Concerto.
Brandon also left a very perceptive comment on my article Advice for Aspiring Music Performance Majors. [...]

Paul Rogers plays…the….bass?
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The feedback on the Virtual Master Class tracks has been pretty light recently. This is understandable–it’s summertime,school is out, people are kicking back and relaxing. It would be great, however, if people could find some time to click on a track and leave a line or two with some constructive criticism. You [...]

I had the pleasure of sitting down and interviewing the great double bass virtuoso Guy Tuneh today. Guy radiates a love of the instrument in everything he does, and I know that musicians of all disciplines will love to hear this great artist speak from the heart.
If you haven’t heard Guy’s bass playing, you’re [...]

This is a video of bassist Anna Du performing David Anderson’s bass sonata. I actually found a link to this on Dave’s YouTube page, so he must be a fan of the interpretation! If you’re interested in checking out more of Dave’s music, check out John Grillo’s Recital Showcase (featuring all seven of [...]

The Collaborative Piano Blog just informed me that a new blog just launched from b5 media called The Good Musician. Even though it is a very new blog, it looks like it really holds a lot of promise to become a very interesting read. Some of their posts include:

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San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz recently passed this announcement along to me. Joel is a phenomenal player, and I would highly recommend checking it out.
Joel writes:
The Toronto Summer Music Festival and Academy is a new program taking place this year at the University of Toronto from July 23 to August 19th.
I will [...]