Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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After hearing this song played incessantly on MacBreak Weekly (one of my favorite podcasts), I find that I can’t get it out of my head. Now you won’t be able to get it out of your head either:

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In case readers missed it, Phillip Serna posted a great video of Jay Leonhart singing a song about getting a bass on a plane. Check out Phillip’s post here.
Bass blog contributor Benjy reminded me about this post he contributed concerning European train travel woes. He also shared with me some of his [...]

Blog readers will notice that the ‘Listen to the Podcast’ section of the sidebar has been revamped, and I’d like to take a moment and briefly explain what this new podcast interface does. With the CrowdAbout widget I just installed, you can skip to selected areas of a podcast. Check it out and [...]

Drew McManus (Adaptistration blog author) wrote a post estimating the worth of blogs that he reads. The tool he used to make these calculations comes from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. While the results are of little real-world benefit (I haven’t gotten a lot of purchase offers recently, that’s for sure!), it is [...]

In keeping with our recent travel theme, here is a shot of some monolithic-looking bass trunks backstage in Glastonbury on a National Youth Orchestra tour. I like the boots neatly aligned next to each trunk.
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Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Part 3 - Planes
European double bass train travel woes
Jay Leonhart sings about taking a [...]

Double bassist Andy Anderson (member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra and Grant Park Symphony, and a frequent Contrabass Conversations guest) mentioned to me recently the usefulness of conducting a survey of double bass airline travel experiences. I think that this is a fantastic idea (and one the ties in quite well with [...]

Plane Trips with Basses Are Fun – If Fun for You is Getting Attacked by Rabid Weasels
Traveling with a bass is an annoyance by cab and an irritation by train, but the real drama occurs when we intrepid (or foolhardy) bassists venture out to our nearest airport to load our instruments on a plane.
After all, [...]

This was forwarded to me by Chicago-area jazz bassist Rich Armandi. Hopefully you will get a good laugh about the woes bassists feel trying to get a bass on and off a plane.

I am currently working on integrating a system called CrowdAbout into the Contrabass Conversations podcast. CrowdAbout (and several other services) allow producers (as well as listeners) to put virtual push-pins into podcast files, labeling where various events occur and providing links to more resources.
Listeners can leave comments at specific points in episodes. These [...]

Grant Park Symphony and Phoenix Symphony bassist Jonathan Imsande sent me these extremely fun animated photos of cats listening to various types of music:

Cat listening to Stevie Wonder

Cat listening to HOUSE music

Cat listening to Metal
Cat listening to Hip Hop
Cat listening to GANGSTA RAPCat listening to Techno(on Ecstasy)