Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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We’re wrapping up our interview with author, corporate speaker, and double bassist Justin Locke today. Justin is the author of Real Men Don’t Rehearse, a book filled with wonderful anecdotes about his life in the music business. Justin was a freelance double bassist in the Boston area for nearly two decades, working regularly [...]

Here’s a video of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio playing the intro to “Behind The Yashmak” live at the Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival in France from July 19, 2003.

Watching The Colbert Report with Courtney (and Dan the cat). #
Excited at the near 50 degree high predicted for today! #
Heading out for a run on a pleasantly mild winter afternoon. #
Doing some podcast editing for a special mid-week episode tomorrow. #
Heading out to teach. We’ve got an Elgin Symphony rehearsal tonight. #

Double bassist Rob Oxoby wrote in a great comment outlining an alternative exercise to the one described by doublebassblog.org contributor Phillip Serna.  Rob writes:
I was able to do this for about 45 seconds. However, it seems to me that this is the wrong kind of exercise to be building flexibility as it opens the risk [...]

Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi recently sent me a link to this new video from The Bass Gang’s recent Italian tour. What a great ensemble!

Matthew Mullenweg created the content management system WordPress (which is what I use to blog).  He is also a jazzer, and he has created a great compendium of jazz quotes–quite likely the only comprehensive online resource available for this topic.  Check out the complete index on Matt’s site here.  Here are some selected quotes from [...]

 

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Click the player above to hear the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of #9 from Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below. We welcome your comments! Please take a moment and offer a [...]

Hanging out with Courtney and the cats, watching video podcasts and doing a little CSS programming. #
Cats. #
It’s above freezing today! #
Editing my book (it’s almost done!) before heading out to go teach for the afternoon. #

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My student Patrick Richards (has a fabulous project restoring amplifiers and bass guitars for low-income bass students http://www.myspace.com/thefreewheels &
http://www.myspace.com/swimmermissing) passed on this interesting post by Denson Angelo, bassist and teacher in the Salt Lake City area. It is always good to find new stretches and exercises to do while on [...]

 

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This week’s episode features an interview with and music from jazz bassist Lynn Seaton. Lynn teaches at the University of North Texas, and he maintains an active performing career. He was a member of the Woody Herman Band and Count Basie Orchestra, and he played extended tours with Tony Bennett and George [...]