Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Doing a little blog navigation work before hanging out with Courtney. My cat Angel is trying to hog my attention and drink my tea. Why? #
Eating tacos and watching Law & Order with Courtney. It’s snowing - again! #
Watching ‘Hard Candy’ with Courtney. #
Publishing this week’s podcast. I just just [...]

“People who couldn’t even spell classical are into it now”
Here’s a thoughtful and interesting post from U.K. blogger Jessica Duchen.
(tags: jessica duche n classical music blog)

CBC 60: Lynn Seaton interview and music
This week’s episode features an interview with and music from jazz bassist Lynn Seaton. Lynn teaches at the University of North Texas, and [...]

Wrapped up an evening of highly informative podcasting with John Grillo. Watching Law & Order with Courtney, bundled up away from the cold. #
Hanging with the cats on a chilly Chicago morning. #
Working today in the home office doing some podcasting and behind-the-scenes blog tweaking. #
Just finished a massive amount of blog interface tweaking, [...]

Adaptistration: Strategic Planning Poll Results
From Drew McManus: “This week’s Adaptistration poll on the value of artistic stakeholder input on an orchestra’s strategic planning process produced results that were both intriguing and not the least bit surprising…”
(tags: adaptistration classical music management blog)

Sticks and Drones: Tears in the Mirror
From Bill Eddins: “Anyone who knows me well knows [...]

The Green Bay Symphony is in need of a bassist to play the remainder of their 2007/2008 season. This is a quality orchestra located in northern Wisconsin. Folks interested in more information should fill out the form below, and I will send you further details.

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Ah, the joys of Photoshop!  This picture was sent to me by bassist Vito Liuzzi.  You can also check out video of Vito playing Nino Rota and Bottesini here.

Double bassist and classicalmusicnews.tv blogger John Grillo and I just wrapped up an opera excerpt breakdown for the Contrabass Conversations show. This is an extension of the orchestra excerpt breakdown that we began on episode 41 of the program. On this episode, we featured the following excerpts, with some commentary plus a recording [...]

Double bassist Jon Henderson sent me this photo of Danny Glover promoting his newest movie at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.  Check out the double bass podium design!  It’s got gamba-shaped corners and everything.

Home from Lyric. Had a ridiculously bad drive–1 1/2 hours to go 12 miles! #
Heading out on a very chilly morning to catch the train downtown. #
Just finished teaching a class of the most adorable 2nd graders you’ve ever seen in your life. #
About to record a new podcast episode with co-host John Grillo. [...]

A Week in the Life is a brief series chronicling a quirky but nevertheless quite typical week in the life of a mid-tier freelance musician.  Though the sort of wacky events I’ve described thus far undoubtedly happen in orchestras of all flavors, from the Berlin Philharmonic to the community orchestra down the block from me, [...]