Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This weekend we will be featuring an interview with and music from double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes. Donovan teaches bass at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and he is an extremely active soloist, clinician, and composer. We featured music from Donovan way back on episode 13 of the podcast, and it’s great [...]

I hope that you all enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring an interview with Scott Rosenthal, a pit musician veteran here in Chicago’s musical theater scene, as well as some Bottesini from the always excellent Stefano Sciascia. If you missed it, just check out the episode here, or click the Blubrry Player [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with Chicago-based double bassist and electric bassist Scott Rosenthal. Scott is one of the major players for the Chicago theater scene, having performed in a huge number of productions such as The Producers, Ragtime, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, [...]

It’s video Friday here on the blog this week! I found this adorable and amazing performance of a Taiwanese English class through a recent Boing Boing post. Although utterly hilarious from a native English speaker perspective (especially given the MC Hammer soundtrack), it is obviously a total blast for the kids and a [...]

Kenneth Woods posted a link to this extremely fun video on his blog recently. Checking it out, I noticed that it has been viewed around 3.4 million times already, so I’m a little late to the game with this! But, if you’re an old man like me and things take a while to [...]

Elaine Fine posted this video on her Musical Assumptions blog recently, demonstrating the relative level of importance that government places on music and music performers here in the United States. Listen to Bush’s response to the question posed to him by an Altissimo Records representative, and (more disturbing and surprising) check out the reaction [...]

Double bassist Tyler Bakken sent me a link to this story about the Houston Symphony’s newest PR idea–trading cards! Kurt Johnson, the violinist mentioned in the following quote, is an old acquaintance of mine. We both attended Northwestern University and played in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago masters degree fellowship program in the [...]

I hope that folks enjoyed our interview with Eric Hochberg that was released yesterday. This special mid-week episode featured the conclusion of our interview from earlier this year plus some music from Eric. These shorter mid-week episodes will come out from time to time, featuring only and interview segment and possibly some music.
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I hope that readers enjoyed yesterday’s installment of Basses, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. If you’re looking for more long form original content (stories, articles, essays, and he like), just click the Articles link in the upper left hand corner of this blog. That will take you to a list with a brief summary [...]

This Contrabass Conversations special episode features the second part of our interview with Chicago-based jazz bassist Eric Hochberg. Eric first appeared on episode 21 of the podcast, and listeners should really enjoy hearing the conclusion to this interview. Following the interview is a track featuring Eric titled Mr. Bar Locrian. Learn more [...]