Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This month’s issue of Bass Musician magazine just launched, and as usual you can check out our Contrabass Conversations offering in this publication. We featured Chicago area jazz bassist Eric Hochberg in this issue of the magazine, merging the two halves of Eric’s episode together into one feature.
Check out the Bass Musician [...]

We’ve gotten some really fantastic comments on last week’s post about discouraging professional performance ambitions in music education students–this post obviously struck a chord with many readers.  You can check out all of the comments on this post here, but I’ll share a few of them here as well:
Jerry Fuller writes:
I found your comments [...]

We’ve got a Dan Hachez bass for sale over on the bas blog For Sale page.   For those who aren’t familiar, Dan Hachez is one of the best United States instrument makers active today (and the winner of several gold medals for instrument making), and I’m sure that this bass won’t be on the market [...]

Double bass virtuoso and Contrabass Conversations guest Guy Tuneh has just come out with a new line of double bass bow cases.  Here are a couple of photos of these new cases:

You can learn more about these cases at Guy Tuneh’s website.  He designed these cases with the needs of traveling double bassists [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode gets more in-depth with the French bow hold, featuring many exercises and close-ups of Andy’s bow hand and arm in action. We get a lot of close-up shots of Andy’s bow [...]

A recent comment from Carol on my Advice for Aspiring Music Performance Majors post sparked my interest in creating a similar list for top-tier schools for jazz bass study. Commenting on Karl Olsen’s Orchestra Audition Winners List, Carol writes:
Jason, congratulations on your wedding (what a handsome couple!). I love your advice to bass performance [...]

CSO Bass Blog author (and Contrabass Conversations guest) Michael Hovnanian has been checking in regularly on his blog, sharing what he’s been up to on the Chicago Symphony’s European tour this fall.  Here’s what has gone up so far.  Check in to his site and see daily updates.

CSO tour September 23-October 7
A final gasp [...]

My good friend and fellow blogger Josh Nemith (also the pianist for the IRIS Orchestra and Dayton Philharmonic, and formerly of the New World Symphony) just got featured on Chris Foley’s Pagecast of Classical Music Blogs.  I found out about this through a recent post on Africlassical.  Check out Josh’s post here–it’s an excellent post [...]