Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Folks have probably noticed the massive facelift that the blog has undergone over the past week.  That is actually only the tip or the iceberg as far as new functionality for www.doublebassblog.org.  Moving to WordPress is something that I should have done a long time ago, and my tinkering over the past few days [...]

Double bassist and ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo wrote a post recently about the New Jersey Symphony and their dubious decision to sell their recently acquired ‘Golden Age’ instrument collection of 30 renowned stringed instruments to investment bankers (and amateur violinists) Seth and Brook Taube.  Although they no longer own the instruments themselves, the New [...]

My long list of podcasts that I listen to daily generally provides me with some much needed levity in my day.  Thanks to one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts (Net at Nite, if I remember correctly), I found passiveaggressivenotes.com, a hilariously funny site containing wonderfully snarky passive aggressive notes left by roommates, stores, and other [...]

The Peabody Double Bass Blog continues to grow and develop as a valuable resource for the global bass community. This excellent blog, authored by Peabody double bass faculty members Jeff Weisner, John Hood, Paul Johnson, recently added jazz bassist Michael Formanek as an author. Michael recently contributed a Q&A of common questions asked [...]

I have been remiss in mentioning how much I’ve enjoyed reading posts from conductors (and now bloggers) Bill Eddins and Ron Spigelman on their new blog Sticks and Drones. This blog duo packs a very entertaining punch, and I’ve been having fun checking out their various thoughts, observations, and rants.
Ron wrote a very funny post [...]

As the profile of www.doublebassblog.org continues to rise, I have noticed a great deal of extremely amusing spam sites linking to here and scraping content. Now, for folks unfamiliar with content scraping, the term refers to someone (or some nefarious scraping robot script, more likely) copying posts off of popular blogs, then posting the [...]

Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post.  Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger set-up.  Check it out–it’s really slick.
BTW, I’m in the [...]

People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different!  I finally made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which means two things:

There is a huge amount [...]

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more control and flexibility.  I seem [...]

I blogged previously about the sudden and unfortunate demise of the International Music Score Library Project and how this may be a harbinger of things to come as the Internet age progresses.  One of my favorite podcasts, Buzz Out Loud, also weighed in on this story, and MusTech.net just wrote a post about it as [...]