Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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We’ve featured the extraordinary double bass soloist Boguslaw Furtok many times on the blog in the past, and this clip (submitted by double bassist Ian Hallas ,who just performed the Bottesini Concerto with orchestra this week) is no exception.  Sha Ye (violin) and Boguslaw play a seven minute excerpt from this fun and virtuosic [...]

We will be wrapping up the third and final part of our interview with National Symphony bassist Ira Gold this weekend, as well as featuring a recording of Ira playing some Bach.  Ira is an outstanding bassist and teacher and an extraordinary musical and technical thinker on the instrument.  Check out the first two [...]

Here’s a shot by Julieta Cervantes (for the New York Times) of Tim Cobb along with James Levine, John Harbison, Elliot Carter, and Milton Babbitt. Tim is the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal bassist.

Read the accompanying New York Times story here. Thanks to bass blog reader Jon for passing along this link.
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A few days ago, I logged into my Facebook account and discovered the following message:
"Jason Heath would like to be friends with you…"
Me….become friends with me?  I clicked the Jason Heath profile and, sure enough, it was another Jason Heath, only living in the U. K. instead of Chicago.
Then I noticed his recent updates:

Jason Heath [...]

Double bass virtuoso and University of Texas-Austin bass professor (and Contrabass Conversations musical guest) plays The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens in this excellent video:

What a fabulous player!
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DaXun leaves Northwestern University for UT-Austin
DaXun tames the double bass - Washington [...]

The amazing bassist Dean Ferrell will be doing a solo bass performance in Berlin on Tuesday, November 6th, and any bassists , students, teachers, and fans of amazing double bass performance art should consider attending if they can make it.
We blogged an hour-long video of Dean Ferrell performing as Captain Tobias Hume (footage from the [...]

Bass blog and Contrabass Conversations regular contributor John Grillo recently wrote a post on his new blog project ClassicalMusicNews.tv about the New World Symphony’s Oktoberfest a tradition that he created when he was a fellow there. John writes:

A long standing tradition has been brewing at the New [...]

William J. Zick wrote an interesting post on his AfriClassical blog earlier this week, stating:
The rumor that Beethoven is Black just won’t go away, in spite of the lack of any real evidence. What most people are unaware of is Beethoven’s real relationship with the Black violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860).
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Yesterday we released the first part of our video about the Rabbath left hand position system, and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback already.  We’ve got a couple more parts to this video coming out later on this this week, so stay tuned for more about the Rabbath technique.
I neglected to mention in [...]

International Society of Bassists President and Ball State University Bass Professor Hans Sturm and I got together over the weekend and filmed a chat about the Rabbath left hand position technique.  Hans does a great job explaining the concepts behind this technique, and I hope that folks out there will benefit from this video.  It [...]