Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I recently discovered a great new blog by psychoanalyst Mike Jolkovski that analyses relationships and dynamics in music performance organizations.  What a great idea for a blog!  This is a subject of great interest to me, especially as I continue to write my This Crazy Business series of articles. 
Workingthrough.com covers some of the [...]

Chicago-area double bassist Kells Nollenberger recently started a blog, and I’ve been having agood time checking it out.  Kells writes about a variety of musical topics, including some back-and-forth about the fading Chicago jazz scene and his appearance in the business section of the Chicago Tribune.  Kells is an active bassist on the Chicago [...]

Drew McManus gave me very warm welcome to the Adaptistration family on Monday.  Thanks, Drew!  He writes:
There’s excitement in the air as today marks the launch of the latest installment of a developing three-way mirror of cultural conversation designed to provide a comprehensive view on the field of performing arts. Arts Addict is self described [...]

Double bassist Doug Johnson (www.myspace.com/douglasjohnson) has written a series of fascinating blog posts on the relationship between pitch cycles per second and how these translate to beats per minute.  This is heady and fascinating stuff!  Doug writes:
….pitches in music are measured in frequencies, or more specifically "Hertz" (Hz), which are cycles per second. Most western [...]

I’d love to get reader’s input–should I move the bass blog blogroll to its own page rather than having the links on the front page?  It does add quite a bit of length to an already crowded sidebar.  Do folks use these links frequently, or would it be easier to navigate if they were on [...]

Mustech.net blogger Joseph Pisano recently put out a list of his favorite blogs relating to music education, and it was great to see doublebassblog.org opening the list.  Thanks, Joseph!  I really enjoy this blog, checking in regularly through my RSS reader to catch up on the latest in music technology.
Here are a few of the [...]

Arts Addict, my new blog, is now live.  You can check it out here.  I’m thinking of it as the bass blog minus the bass.  Right now, I’ve moved all of my older original writing over there, and I’ll be doing one post a day Monday through Friday on this blog.  Everything stays the same [...]

Folks have asked me before about the ‘related posts’ links that I usually include in the footer of each blog post, inquiring whether I use a program to generate these.  If only!  While there are some WordPress plug-ins that automatically create related links (one of the reasons why I will likely move this blog over [...]

I’m hard at work getting my new blog Arts Addict (a new blog project affiliated with Adaptistration’s Drew McManus), and I am really excited about this new thing.  This blog is looking awesome, and I can’t wait to launch it!  It comes out on Monday, and I’ll definitely be letting folks know about it here.
Arts [...]

I never thought that my post about the satisfaction of section playing would stir up so much controversy!  The comments continue to come in, with some pretty differing opinions on the subject.
It makes me wonder how one’s perspective on this subject is shaped by their schooling.  It sounds to me like many (but not all) [...]