Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Whew! It’s a nice feeling to get that car explosion story off of my chest. I’ve been waiting to put that one out on the internet for a long time. Those event happened in early 2004, and I remember thinking then that this is a story that has to be shared [...]

Matt Wengerd of 104 Weeks recently started a blog for the University of South Florida jazz department. This is a really great use of Blogger in my eyes. One can put up photos, links, text, and the like just like a regular webpage, and Blogger allows for easy collaboration on blogs, allowing [...]

I recently did an interview with my friend John Grillo. This interview will be featured on the next episode of Contrabass Conversations, and it should be a real pleasure for people to hear.
John also sent me a CD of his recent double bass recital, and I will be incorporating some of these tracks into the [...]

My ‘real life’ (although I certainly consider this blog a part of my real life) has been getting in the way of my writing over the past month, making it difficult to create new content and make improvements to the blog. Fortunately, my schedule is easing up slightly starting next week, and I am [...]

Check out 2000 Bloggers. This is a pretty cool page–click on any of the photos to visit that person’s blog. This is an interesting way to find blogs you’ve never heard of.

I just finished reading Matt Heller’s recent post on fingerings and score study for the double bass, and he makes some interesting points. Often what one hears from a coach in a setting like the New World Symphony (where Matt currently plays), the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (where Matt and I used to both [...]

Michael Hovnanian just did a post about some fingering options for the ‘Trout’ Quintet. He mentions not often using the A harmonic on the D string in passage work (sorry, non-bass folks–click the Cats tab if your eyes are glazing over), and he cites one of the Ein Heldenleben arpeggios as another example of [...]

Over the summer I applied for a professional blogging position with an internet media company. I made the short list but didn’t get the gig, which is probably a good thing in hindsight. I have no idea how I would have been able to keep up the time commitment this job would have [...]

Matt Heller just wrote a post about Yo-Yo Ma and his week as soloist with the New World Symphony. He also mentions first hearing Yo-Yo Ma with the Philadelphia Orchestra years ago. It is a very perceptive piece of prose–check it out!
It is great to see Matt writing again on his hella frisch [...]

I’d like to thank the people who have been leaving such great comments on my blog over the last few months. The number of comments has really stepped up, and I appreciate it. I love comments–to me, they are one of the things that make a blog really interesting. The discussion doesn’t [...]