Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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 [...]

Former Chicago Symphony president Henry Fogel just started an Arts Journal blog. Here’s an excerpt from his first post:
I would like to welcome you to my blog, which I hope will become a forum for issues concerning American symphony orchestras. In the three years since I have become President of the American Symphony [...]

I try to post on this blog any links, services, or concert information that people send me. If you have anything you think would be cool to post, please feel free to e-mail me or leave a comment. Any recitals, events, videos, random stuff, and the like is fine. Also, if anyone [...]

One of the problems with Blogger is the difficulty in finding the information you are looking for on a particular blog, especially as the blog grows in size (this blog has almost 500 posts). I have tried to solve this with the navigation bar at the top and the search box to the right, [...]

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 [...]

Peter Ngan put together a great video recently using my recording of the first movement of the Eccles Sonata. I performed this piece in June this year on Gary Karr’s former 1611 “Amati” bass. It is a great juxtaposition of images and music, and it is very flattering that he would [...]

Polyphonic.org has a very informative set of video interviews with Milwaukee Symphony principal viola and Milwaukee Musicians Association president Robert Levine. Greg Sandow interviews Robert on a series of issues facing modern orchestras, including changing dynamics between players and management in negotiations, perception of an orchestra as either a commercial enterprise or a [...]

My great friend Aaron Burman started a blog called The Best of Omaha recently. It is great to see my friends blogging. I was in Aaron’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. I’m looking forward to seeing what Aaron writes about on his new blog.
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I recently added a new feature to my podcast page and audio page. It is called the Pupu Player, and it is a really simple way to listen to any of the tracks in my podcast. Go to either of these pages (or click on the player in this post) and a new [...]

I have noticed recently that I have had several people visit my blog from Tehran in Iran. If anybody visiting this site is from Tehran I would love to know how you stumbled across my blog–whether searching for specific information, from a particular website, or another method. Also, are you a bass [...]