Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Milwaukee Symphony and Grant Park Symphony cellist Peter Szczepanek sent me a link to this video featuring Stringfever playing Bolero. The thing is…they’re all playing it on one cello! Amazing. Now let’s see a bass quartet do the same thing. That gives me an idea…..

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While checking in on podcast statistics earlier today, I happened to notice that we’ve now past 32,000 downloads for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. That’s approximately 21,000 hours of consecutive hours of podcasts accessed by people (880 straight days) over the past eight months. Thanks to everybody who has tuned in so far, [...]

This is the next part of my recital/demo/lecture for the Silk Music Camp last week. I played Rabbath’s Ode D’Espagne for the first part (you can check that out here) of the class, along with a “this is the bass” talk for the students. This video features more of that, plus a few [...]

Bassist Andrew Harmon (of That’s My Cone! fame) sent me links to two extremely useful repositories for freely downloadable scores. The first (which I have used for research purposes before–extremely useful) is the International Music Score Library Project. Founded in 2006, this project is an attempt to compile all public domain scores into [...]

Eric Hochberg sent me a link to a set of videos from a master class with Ray Brown. Divided into nine parts (solely because of upload limits on YouTube), this is perhaps one of the best jazz bass treasures on YouTube to date.
Bassist Matt Wengerd has posted this series of videos on his blog, [...]

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Bass Faculty, originally uploaded by matthew.wengerd.
This photo of the bass faculty for the 2007 Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops is from 104 Weeks blogger and jazz bassist Matt Wengerd. Look at the [...]

This week we featured double bassist Daniel Nix on the Contrabass Conversations podcast performing “Beau Soir” by Debussy. Daniel is a very lyrical player who can really create a beautiful melody on the bass, and I enjoyed including his music on the episode.
Daniel also sent me a link to this performance of him playing [...]

Facebook rocks, and the Contrabass Conversations group is turning into a fun community even only a few days into its existence. We’ve got some good discussions going, a lot of photos and videos up, show ideas, and much more, so check it out if you’re on Facebook!
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I’m getting married this Saturday! Courtney and I will be traveling to Kauai for a sunset wedding, and we’ll be spending our honeymoon there as well. You’ll still be hearing from me for the rest of the week here on the blog, but I’ll be taking a little vacation for the remainder of [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Minnesota Orchestra bassist Colin Corner. Colin joined the orchestra in 2006 after being a member of the Vancouver Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. We got a chance to talk auditions, orchestra life, gear, and much more. We also feature a piece from Israel-based musician [...]