Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I have created a lot of videos over the last year on Eyespot.com. This service is extremely cool, and I’d encourage everybody to check it out. I wrote a blog post about all of the features a few months back, and they have expanded their offerings since then. David Dudas of [...]

If you are interested in learning more about this subject, check out the follow-up post to this article here.
I have a B.M. and M.M. in Double Bass Performance from Northwestern University. Although I had a good financial package for my undergraduate degree and had a full-tuition fellowship or my graduate degree, I still [...]

National Symphony Orchestra bassist and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeffrey Weisner just started a double bass blog. Check it out here. I am also adding it to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. Jeffrey recently wrote a post about his National Symphony colleague Ira Gold. Ira and I used [...]

Matthew Wengerd recently posted this Milt Hinton video on his 104 Weeks blog. Check out his post here , his website here, or his personal blog here. This is a cool bass video:

Here’s a video I put together with some of the photos and footage I’ve used on this blog over the past year. I’m looking forward to taking new videos and photos and using them in posts to come for 2007:

I have taken many auditions over the last decade. I have flown, driven, and taken the train to them, and I (like all bass players) have had my share of inconveniences. There is one audition in particular that stands out, however.
I auditioned for principal bass of the San Jose Symphony in January of [...]

Matt Murray of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb pointed out a great Edgar Meyer video clip from A&E’s Breakfast With the Arts. He and Bela Fleck play and are interviewed on the clip. You’ll need Real Player to watch it, and I can’t embed it here, so visit this site to get it.
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Here is a video of highlights from my recent recital on Gary Karr’s former “Amati” bass:

This video has also been added to my podcast feed, so if you are subscribing it should be available to you the next time you check iTunes. You can also download the video by clicking here. (You can [...]

Dale Cruse has decided to retire his excellent bass blog BIG BOTTOM. His blog has been a really excellent resource for electric and string bass players and it will be missed. I have enjoyed contributing to his blog over the past several months, and if Dale starts any new bass projects in the [...]

Believe it or not, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago used to advertise in Time magazine. Here is an ad from 1998 featuring the bass section. I am the second player from the right. One of my favorite things about this picture is the obvious empty stool in the middle of [...]