Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

Blogs - the new wisdom of crowds? - On An Overgrown Path blogger Bob Shingleton (Pliable) is giving a talk today [...]

In addition to performing for many local and national musical theater productions, Chicago-area bassist Paul Dallas hosts an online cooking show specializing in Greek dishes.  Titled Fun With Filo, this show gives Chef Paul a chance to show how to cook a huge amount of recipes, including Greek Pizza, Baklava, Skordalia, and Tiropites.  You can [...]

This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features the conclusion of our chat with Minnesota Orchestra bassist Colin Corner. Colin joined the orchestra in 2006 after being a member of the Vancouver Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. In this episode we discuss the process of taking an audition for an ensemble like the Minnesota Orchestra–the various [...]

I just got together with International Society of Bassist president and Ball State University bass professor Hans Surm last night to chat about ISB business and do some podcasting. We got some really great footage (both audio and video)–expect to see something kind of like our Andy Anderson virtual lessons, only covering the Rabbath [...]

Here’s a video of Gary Karr describing the history of the ‘Amati’ double bass. Gary talks about the origins of this bass (further research of the instrument has shown that it was not likely to have been made by the Amati brothers) and how it came to be in his possession.

If you’d like to [...]

“Publish my stuff? Online? What…..do you mean my writing?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me!”
“It’s just………..not…..good enough yet!”
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past couple of years of blogging, it’s that new media (like blogs and podcasts) requires new attitudes toward content creation and publication. Quickly fading are the days when [...]

Bass blog contributor Benjy sent me a link to this video of Orca the cat demolishing a roll of toilet paper.  I’ve definitely seen my cats do this kind of thing, although not to this extent!

Incidentally, I checked the archives before putting this video out on the blog, and the last time I put out [...]

Dominican Symphony Orchestra bassist Velibor Veljkovic sent me a message recently in search of more information about the Klauss Stoll and Jorg Baumann recording of the Bottesini Passione Amorosa.  It sounds like this CD is out of print, and he is having a hard time locating a copy of it.  Any information about this recording [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

Phoenix Symphony and Grant Park Symphony bassist Jonathan Imsande outlined a really outstanding project idea to me this summer, and I’ve spent the last several weeks pondering exactly how this sort of thing would work.  I know that is has enormous philanthropic potential, and I’ve held my blog tongue until I could mentally hash out [...]