Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

This is an ultra-quick note from an ultra-harried Jason (only three weeks of insane schedule left–meatier blogging to come very soon!) to let you know that Contrabass Conversations will be featuring interviews from Metropolitan Opera Orchestra bassists Jeremy McCoy and Dan Krekeler over the next month. Jeremy is the Assistant Principal Bass of the [...]

Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get them excited about music. Hope you have fun with these videos!
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Grant Park Symphony and Northern Illinois University bass professor John Floeter put out a really interesting blog post earlier this fall, posing an excellent question:
How do people determine the proportion of basses to other string sections for a particular orchestra?
John writes:
I’ve often wondered what the “perfect” balance or even the “normal” balance of bassists is [...]

Doublebassblog.org contributor Vito Liuzzi performs the Romanza Drammatica by Giovanni Bottesini:

Vito Liuzzi - double bass
prof.: Rosalba Lapresentazione - Piano

Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get them excited about music. Hope you have fun with these videos!
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I get really sick of shelling out $20 or $30 (or more!) for parking every time I play a gig. Add in expensive gas, the clogged Chicago freeways, and the aggrivation of maneuvering a bass in and out of cars and buildings, and I have to think long and hard about a job before accepting. [...]

Regular contributor to doublebassblog.org Vito Liuzzi performs a fantasy on tunes by The Beatles:

Vito Liuzzi - double bass (Italy) prof.: Rosalba Lapresentazione -Piano
Double Bass “Romeo Orsi 1890″
“Beatles fantasy” for double bass and piano has been arranged by italian Maestro Michele Cellaro.

Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get them excited about music. Hope you have fun with these videos!

From Arizona State University bass professor Patrick Neher:
The Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop and competition will occur March 5-8, 2009 at Arizona State University. The competition is open, in two categories, to double bass and electric bass(es) now, for players 15-22 years. The Festival will feature John Clayton Thierry Barbé, Catalin Rotaru, Joel DiBartolo [...]

The International Society of Bassists recently launched an online store. This welcome development for the world’s only international bass organization (besides this blog, of course!) features printed music, recordings, T-shirts, DVDs, posters, old issues of the journal, and more. Check it out at isbstore.com.