Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here’s a very odd video of Abbey Sholzberg (with artificial humpback under shirt) auditioning for CraveFest 2007. I wonder what the folks driving by thought of this…

bass scroll
Originally uploaded by chelseagirl

The photographer writes:
“I’ve stared at him longingly for days but only had a few seconds to snap this shot.
Oh bass, how I luuuuv thee :)”

Just got home from an 18 hour day in Milwaukee. #
Interviewing Cincinnati Symphony principal bassist Owen Lee tomorrow morning for Contrabass Conversations. #
Preparing for an interview this morning. #
Just wrapped up an excellent interview with Cincinnati Symphony principal bassist Owen Lee. #
Heading out for a run. #
Enjoying a relaxing afternoon before taking off to teach [...]

Chuck Norris Facts
One of my all-time favorite web sites!
(tags: Chuck Norris facts humor)

Jazz Bassist/Composers
Bill Harrison writes a blog post about Ben Allison, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, and Dave Holland–four of the best jazz bassists of all time.
(tags: bill harrison jazz underneath double bass blog)

Michael Hovnanain records with Gunnelpumpers
Michael writes: “A six-hour recording session with that [...]

Here is a quite cool (and very short) video of a 3-D rendering of a double bass, complete with a little pizzicato riffing in the background. I like how the virtual camera swoops down to string level, then beyond it to body level, like Luke Skywalker going into the trench of the Death Star:

Here’s a bit of light entertainment for folks today–it’s Messiah ‘performed’ by a pack of cross-dressing nuns.  Enough said!

We hope that folks enjoyed this past weekend’s first installment of our Contrabass Conversations feature on Peter Seymour and his kickin’ new trio Project.  We’ll be featuring the rest of this interview plus more from Project in the next few weeks.  Check out Project’s website at www.whatisproject.org.
This weekend we will be featuring and interview [...]

The always excellent Boguslaw Furtok performs the third movement of the J.M. Sperger Concerto in A major with orchestra. Listen to that projection over the orchestra! If only it were a longer clip…

Bass Player hand
Originally uploaded by Penny White

No matter what your set-up is like, it takes some solid strength to keep those strings down.

Home from teaching. Making some dinner and hanging out with the cats. #
Two more Nutcrackers tomorrow. I hope that it doesn’t as much as it did the last time I went up to Milwaukee! #
Up doing a little blogging before heading out to Milwaukee . #
It’s not snowing out! And it’s over [...]