Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.
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So, in my first post, I described what I see as the reality of our situation as [...]

 

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We’re chatting with Volkan Orhon, David Murray, Anthony Stoops, and Paul Sharpe on this week’s episode of Contrabass Conversations. Anthony Stoops was featured recently as an interview guest on the podcast, and we also featured Volkan playing one of Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand’s basses on our interview with this fine luthier.
In this interview, we [...]

After a lot of cutting and pasting, we’ve now got a complete alphabetical listing of all Contrabass Conversations guests available under doublebassblog.org/features/podcast-guests.  Check it out, and stay tuned for our Bad Boyz of Bass interview tomorrow.

Ever since the very first few episodes, the Contrabass Conversations podcast has featured interviews with and performances from leaders in the double bass world. While this remains the main focus of the podcast, we’ve certainly branched out into different territory in the past year, including:

Video Performances
Virtual Lessons
Excerpt Breakdowns
Exploring Chamber Music series
Story Time series

It’s now [...]

An arrangement of the Barber Adagio…for solo bass? Well, not exactly. This video features University of Iowa bass professor (and Contrabass Conversations guest) Volkan Orhon performing the solo part to the Barber Adagio along with recorded accompaniment.
Volkan writes:
This is a live performance of me playing the solo part along with the pre-recorded parts [...]

I do a lot of driving, and I’ve certainly seen more than my fair share of nasty intersections, but I’ve never witnessed anything like the horrific messes seen below! This post is from Dark Roasted Blend, one of my long-time favorite blogs. I’ve actually contributed a post on Automated Musical Instruments to this [...]

CBC 69: Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand interview
We’re chatting with double bass luthier and Heartland String Bass Shop owner Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand today on the Contrabass Conversations podcast.
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Exploring Chamber Music 3 - Brahms Serenade No. 1
This Contrabass Conversations special series highlights chamber music that includes the double bass.
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Update (8:30 pm 3/20/08) - Had a great live chat tonight on the blog!  Stay tuned for more of this in the near future.
We had a great live video chat on the blog earlier this morning, with many people tuning in and chatting live!  We’ll be broadcasting another live show tonight at 7 p.m. Central [...]

I think that down deep I always knew that telling ‘tales out of school’ like I do each week on the blog would eventually come back to bite me where the sun don’t shine. Like the code of silence found among musicians (at least until the Penn & Teller era!), most musicians realize that [...]

We’re going to be launching some new live blogging experiments here at doublebassblog.org.  This is something that I’ve been thinking about for quite some time, and I think that it really has enormous potential.
We’re going to start by just doing some live shows from time to time.  The first one will be at 9 a.m. [...]