Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

There is a very famous documentary from 1969 called “The Trout” featuring a group of legendary musicians assembling and performing Schubert’s famous quintet.
The musicians featured are:

Daniel Barenboim, pianoItzhak [...]

This is an older article from Polyphonic.org, but it is illuminating reading for those thinking about a career in music or those wishing to understand the life of a professional musician. Douglas Fisher makes some great points here. The article reads:
Among the highly educated and skilled professions, orchestra musicians make some [...]

Michael Hovnanian of the Chicago Symphony recently started a bass blog. Michael was my teacher at Northwestern University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees, and it is really great to see him start a blog! I just added his blog to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog.
In addition to playing in [...]

If you are interested in learning more about this subject, check out the follow-up post to this article here.
I have a B.M. and M.M. in Double Bass Performance from Northwestern University. Although I had a good financial package for my undergraduate degree and had a full-tuition fellowship or my graduate degree, I still owe [...]

National Symphony Orchestra bassist and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeffrey Weisner just started a double bass blog. Check it out here. I am also adding it to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. Jeffrey recently wrote a post about his National Symphony colleague Ira Gold. Ira and I used [...]

Matthew Wengerd recently posted this Milt Hinton video on his 104 Weeks blog. Check out his post here , his website here, or his personal blog here. This is a cool bass video:

This week’s Podcast for Teachers describes a great new service from Google designed specifically for educators. Google for Educators amalgamates all the Google services that are of use to teachers, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google Page Creator, Picassa, and Google Books.
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None of [...]

I’d like to congratulate my four students who made it into the District 7 Illinois Music Educators Association orchestra for Illinois. Scott Bakshis (who was principal bass for Illinois All-State last year), Ian Hallas (who was principal bass for district IMEA last year), Zach Yordy and Cameron Shenassa all got in. Great job, [...]

The term “social bookmarking” may not be familiar to everybody, but it has emerged as one of the most useful tools of the Web 2.0 movement. The service del.icio.us (now owned by Yahoo!) is the oldest and best example of the power of social bookmarking. Del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online, [...]

Anybody who hasn’t played around with Google Earth should download and install it–this program is going to change (and already is changing) the way we see our world and the way we learn about places, plan trips, teach geography, organize resources, and much more. I have written a couple of times in the [...]