Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

My sites get a lot of traffic from folks who don’t spend every waking moment of their life perusing the Internet, and every once in a wile I like to do a little summary of how this blog works and some similarities and differences between it and a newspaper, magazine, radio show, or any [...]

Former Contrabass Conversations guest Justin Locke, formerly with the Boston Pops and author of “Real Men Don’t Rehearse: Adventures in the Secret World of Professional Orchestras” has a new blog. Go to justinlocke.typepad.com.

I certainly never imagined that this would happen, but almost every single long-form post I’ve written in the past few months has been on the iPhone. I now only use my laptop for more advanced image manipulation, adding links (something the iPhone is horrible at) and doing audio or video embeds. Almost everything else is [...]

Man, do I ever love mobile blogging! I never thought that I’d ever get into blogging from a handheld device like the iPhone, but I use it to generate almost all of my blog content now. It’s a quick and easy capture device that I have with me at all times, and it really streamlines [...]

As a creator of freely distributed Creative Commons content (on Contrabass Conversations as well as doublebassblog.org), I see YouTube, podcasting, social media, and other such distribution platforms as a huge and largely untapped resource for classical musicians. Legal questions concerting rebroadcasting content through these channels tends to muck up the works, making very few orchestras [...]

I have been doing a surprising amount of blogging on the iPhone ever since the WordPress mobile application was released for the iPhone operating system. While it may seem kind of cumbersome to write extended blog posts on a mobile device–I only planned on doing some editing on the fly with it–this is a marvelous [...]

Summer has always been a slow time for me bass-wise. Though I’ve always done at least one summer festival since college, I usually find myself with quite a bit of time on my hands during the warmer months.
The lack of summer work used to cause me considerable stress, especially in my early years of freelancing, [...]

While blogging via a cell phone may seem like a painful experience, the iPhone is no ordinary cell phone, and with the release of the brand spanking new WordPress app especially for the iPhone, it’s easier than ever.
While I doubt that iPhone blogging (which I’m doing right now) will replace desktop blogging for longer posts, [...]

My book Road Warrior Without an Expense Account is now available through Amazon.com! How cool is that? Now you can take advantage of Amazon deals and free shipping when ordering. If you haven’t picked up a copy and you’re a fan of the blog, doing so would really help to support all the projects we’ve [...]

It’s a great feeling to have completed and put out Road Warrior Without an Expense Account, my first book, earlier this year. It’s a considerable amount of work to publish a book; though I think I always knew this, going through the process personally really drives it home! If you are interested in where employment [...]