Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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My friend and fellow IRIS ORchestra musician Josh Nemith just put out a post on his Cincinnati Pianist Blog about an upcoming performance of George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, complete with photos of himself demonstrating all the various inside-the-piano plucking gestures required from this piece and a short YouTube video demonstrating these techniques. [...]

Here’s a really fun video of double bassist Karl Fenner performing New York Philharmonic assistant principal bassist Jon Deak’s always entertaining B.B. Wolf at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West in 2006. Anyone who hasn’t heard this piece before (and I’m sure you have if you’ve been reading the blog!) will get a [...]

Steve Riddle plays another angle…
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Jazz Bass, originally uploaded by Claire Tamara.

 
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Here is another clip from my demonstration/recital at the 2007 Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I perform “Capriccio No. 2″ by Louisiana Philharmonic principal bassist David Anderson. After the piece, I briefly demonstrate to the kids the techniques involved in this music.

I’ve got a few more clips from this recital that I’ll [...]

Double bassist Eric Steffens, along with other Eastman School of Music students, recently transcribed and performed the entire “Illinois” album by Sufjan Stevens. This is a great album with dense orchestral textures, and the detail with which Eric and company recreate this album is stunning. I can’t imagine the hours involved in such [...]

Stan Haskins (Glued to the String) pointed me to a thought-provoking post from Dr. Jim Horn’s Schools Matter blog titled “I Test, Therefore It Exists”:
If you thought that the orgy of tabulation that has infected our society had reached a climax already, hang on. It seems now that the only way the Congressional braintrust can [...]

We have featured Ranaan Meyer, the bassist for the excellent bluegrass/classical/unclassifiable trio Time for Three, in both audio and video episodes on Contrabass Conversations. You can click here to check them out over on the CBC page. We’ll be putting out the final part of our interview with Ranaan and another video episode [...]

I had an opportunity to get together with Eric Steffens, one of my very first double bass students, this weekend. Eric is a senior at the Eastman School of Music, and he just headed over yesteday to Vienna for a semester of double bass study abroad.
The photo on the left is from Eric in [...]

My “back to work” schedule this September has afforded me much more writing time, and I’ve been busy as a bee, writing a whole slew of new stories, essays, and articles. Some of these are for publication submission, although everything will eventually find its way to the blog in some form. Expect about [...]