October 4, 2007 – Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog

Koussevitzky’s giant bass case

Earlier this week I blogged a bit about a special bass case made for Serge Koussevitzky’s bass. Bass blog contributor Benjy sent in the following photos and information regarding this vintage bass trunk: These pics were sent to me by a bassist friend of mine...

Daniel Barenboim conducts Bottesini Fantasia with bassist Nabil Shehata

Bass blog reader Bobby Sleeper sent me a link to this outstanding video of Berlin Philharmonic principal bassist Nabil Shehata and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov performing Bottesini’s Fantasia on themes by Rossini with the East-West Divan Orchestra under the...

My Amati recital video viewed over 30,000 times

I was doing a little tweaking on my YouTube channel the other day when I happened to notice that my Amati recital video was inching up on 20,000 views. This video consistently comes up on double bass search results, and it’s been on YouTube since 2006, so...

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