Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

We’re going to be launching some new live blogging experiments here at doublebassblog.org.  This is something that I’ve been thinking about for quite some time, and I think that it really has enormous potential.
We’re going to start by just doing some live shows from time to time.  The first one will be at 9 [...]

Actually, this post could quite easily be framed as a question rather than a statement: how do you, the reader, use, access, and derive value from this site? Though I’ve posed this question on polls in the site (and have gotten very interesting results), readership continues to grow by leaps and bounds each [...]

Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo just put up a post highlighting Michael Tilson Thomas (John’s music director during his time in the New World Symphony) and the San Francisco Symphony. John writes:
The San Francisco Symphony led by music director Michael Tilson Thomas will be playing for the first time [...]

I’ve been blogging for several years now, and doing this kind of writing on a daily basis (there are over 2100 posts on doublebassblog.org right now….and counting!) has naturally made me take some time to think about the benefits and drawbacks of independent publishing.
I’ve also done a fair amount of writing for other blogs and [...]

People often ask me how much time I spend working on doublebassblog.org,  Contrabass Conversations, Arts Addict, and my other online endeavors.  While I certainly put in a significant amount of time on all these projects, they have grown organically over time and have interwoven so tightly into my other daily activities (playing and teaching the [...]

This blog represents the constant, gopher-like work of one overcaffeinated bassist’s multi-year attempt to create a resource bank for the double bass community (plus crazy gig stories and cat posts, of course!).  Though I am constantly working to tweak the user interface to walk the line between showing too much and not showing enough, I [...]

I really, truly enjoy writing.  Although I had pretty much neglected any sort of creative writing activity upon entering music school, the last few years of blogging began to gradually rekindle my interest in the written word, and I now find myself with a large amount of content that I’ve recently created.
There’s something extremely satisfying [...]

Xbass.org, the online double bass magazine created by members of the fabulous Bass Gang (hear excerpts from this group on Contrabass Conversations episode 23) just did a fantastic new redesign of their site. This site is a tremendous resource for bass players everywhere. In many respects, it has a lot of similarities to [...]

My student Daniel Chmielinski, in addition to being a very talented bassist, runs the car enthusiast site carsleuth.net, and he started a recent vlog episode with a video commercial that he put together for Contrabass Conversations.  Check it out!

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass.  Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.
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Hello all – first of all, I’m excited to be here on the big bass blog and looking forward to [...]