Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I’m in the process of writing an extended article about WordPress the blog management system that I started using predominantly.  It makes blogging much easier and is helping to keep me from being chained to the computer, allowing me to do what I really like: write!
There are three cool things that WordPress does to [...]

I have been a fan of the service Pageflakes for quite some time. It’s a portal page service, like iGoogle, Netvibes, or My Yahoo, and it allows you to collect various news feeds, add widgets for your e-mail and instant messaging, plus local weather and other such services. This, to me, is [...]

I’ve been taking advantage of a slower-than-usual work week to do a whole lot of internal blog restructuring. All of the blog’s resources and longer-term projects can now be found under the Features link. You can also simply type in doublebassblog.org/features to get to this index. I’m streamlining the Virtual Master Class, [...]

Arts Addict is now officially part of Inside the Arts, a new association of arts and culture blogs from the Adaptistration blog family.  Site founder (and Adaptistration blogger) Drew McManus calls this association "a new cultural blogging exchange", which is a great way to describe it.
What, exactly, is Inside the Arts?  Well, it is [...]

I just found a new blog from the Arizona Opera Musicians Association that illustrates a great way to use a blogging platform (Google’s Blogger service in this case) to create a musician-driven ensemble site.  Many orchestra musicians are banding together to create musician-operated community sites for their organizations, and Azooma is a great example, with [...]

We’ve got a few quick news items collected over the past week to start off your week:

Exploring Chamber Music with the Chicago Chamber Musicians now live - We recently launched our new collaborative series between Contrabass Conversations and the Chicago Chamber Musicians.  This project was conceived by Chicago Symphony Orchestra double bassist Brad Opland, and [...]

Matt Wengerd, one of my very first bass blogger contacts back in 2006, recently overhauled his blog, and it really looks great.  Matt’s blog is essential reading if you’re a bassist.  He’s got tons of great content for bassists of all specialties, but if you’re a jazzer then his blog will be of particular interest [...]

Here are some stories that have caught my attention this past week.  Most of them could use a blog post all their own, but I seem to be spending all my time digging my car out of snowbanks these days, so these links will have to do:

Danny Newman: 1919-2007 - This legendary promoter for the [...]

We’ve gotten slammed here in Chicago with the first really big snowfall of the season.  This kind of thing used to strike terror into my very core as I envisioned the slipping and sliding that I would be doing on rural Wisconsin back roads, commuting hundreds of miles between disparate locations in the frozen and [...]

We released a video of the complete Tubin Concerto featuring blog and podcast collaborator Phillip Serna late last week.  This, to my knowledge, is the only double bass recording of the Tubin Concerto available online, and Phillip does an excellent job with it.
I neglected to put up the detailed program notes that Phillip constructed for [...]