Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I have been working on including as many relevant double bass, electric bass, music, and education blogs as I can on my blogroll in the sidebar on this blog. If anybody has any suggestions for more blogs to list, please leave a comment or e-mail me with ideas. Thanks!
Here are some of my recent [...]

Google Reader has had some recent exciting new developments. This is really an excellent RSS reader which I have started to use as my main news aggregator. If you are not familiar with the concept of an aggregator, check out this Wikipedia page for more information.
Here is how the new Google Reader looks (see [...]

A great blog that my friend Aaron Burman (check out his wedding photos here) pointed me to is Don to Earth by Donald Crowdis. Don is 92 years old! Check out his writing–it’s a great blog and an example of the power of this blogging medium to enhance everybody’s abilities to communicate and [...]

I recently discovered a great classical music blog. Jessica Duchen is a London, UK writer who regularly contributes to The Independent, BBC Music Magazine, and The Strad as well as other publications. Her blog is well-written and insightful and definitely worth checking out. Click the picture to check it out. I’ve [...]

I just read a really good musician story on Dave Belden’s website. Dave is an actor, filmmaker, web developer, and violinist in the Chicago Sinfonietta, and he has a scary tale of his violin getting stolen in Europe. Check it out here.
Dave has designed websites for many prominent musical and theatrical [...]

Michael Hovnanian of the Chicago Symphony recently started a bass blog. Michael was my teacher at Northwestern University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees, and it is really great to see him start a blog! I just added his blog to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog.
In addition to playing in [...]

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 Eyespot [...]

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 [...]

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:

Yesterday I clicked the big blue button I had been staring at for the last few weeks in my Blogger Dashboard and switched to Blogger Beta. I am loving it so far. I have written two previous posts comparing Blogger Beta to other platforms. You can check them out here and here.
Google [...]