Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Earlier this week Blogger unveiled its new Beta version. I have been playing with this service and am extremely happy with the new features Blogger is unveiling. Blogger, originally created by Pyra Labs was one of the pivotal fores n the explosion of the blogosphere over the last several years. [...]

I am working on adding some new features to my blog. In the navigation bar at the top of the blog you will now see a “downloads” tab. It’s taking a while, but I am making available several hundred MP3s, PDFs, and the like that I have generated for my own double [...]

Here are some recent double bass links I have uncovered while surfing the web. I will occasionally post this information, which is derived from the social boomarking website del.icio.us. If you also use del.icio.us, you can click on the link below to add me to your network:

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I’d like to mention that I have just started contributing to BIG BOTTOM, a really excellent website for both electric and double bassists. BIG BOTTOM is managed by Dale Cruse, and it is full of varied and interesting posts by several contributors. I will be writing some original posts for the site, and [...]

I am adding a couple of new sites to my Blogroll. Rockabillybass.com is a site maintained by Shawn Burrell. It is an excellent site about rockabilly bass in general, with interviews, forums, gear talk, lessons, and the like. There are also set up tips and rockabilly links. One lesson covers [...]

Rolle from BassFireBlog just left me a comment pointing out these two great sites from Jonas Lohse in Germany. One site is his own blog:http://www.kontrabassblog.de/
It is an all-German site. My German is pretty terrible, so reading the posts is slow for me, but it is a really excellent blog. He has [...]

I am beginning to create a double bass blogroll for my site, and one thing I am discovering is how few double bass blogs there are out there. This is surprising to me. Most of the ones that I have found haven’t been in the U.S. My favorite bass blog by far [...]

I don’t know if readers of my blog have been checking out the excellent website chicagoclassicalmusic.org recently, but if not they really should (especially Chicagoans). There are really great articles, chats, links, and concert information. This blog features multiple authors from many different musical organizations in Chicago. Some recent articles include:

Wynne [...]

Chicago Classical Music is a new blog with a really interesting structure. It focuses on classical music news and events for the Chicagoland area, and several bloggers regularly contribute content. Groups covered include the Ravinia Festival, Music of the Baroque, Elgin Symphony, and many other ensembles. This is a great resource for [...]

Articles by Jason Heath:
Road Warrior Without an Expense Account - This series chronicles my experiences as a freelance musician and offers thoughts and observations on the classical music orchestral business in general. Although focused on classical musicians and freelance musicians in general, much of the discussion has relevance to musicians from all disciplines. [...]