Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

The 2007 International Society of Bassists Convention will be taking place June 4-9 at Wanda L. Bass (fitting name) School of Music on the campus of Oklahoma City University. I imagine that many bass blog readers will be attending this event, and I’d love to hear your experiences during and after the convention. [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of traffic to Eric Hochberg’s Contrabass Conversations interview in the last few days, and it is good to see that the bass and jazz community are checking this episode out. The interview has been mentioned on several jazz blogs as well, which is great to see. If you [...]

Charlie Haden performs “Speak Low” in this stylish video.

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations guest is jazz bassist Eric Hochberg. Eric is very active in the jazz scene here in Chicago, and you will get a chance to hear him during the interview and his playing after the interview. I’m really excited to be able to present you with this great episode. [...]

I am putting the finishing touches on this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. This week you will be hearing an interview with and music from jazz bassist Eric Hochberg. I think that you will really enjoy the episode, and I look forward to hearing listener reactions to our first jazz bass guest.
We’ve got some [...]

I am in the process of putting together this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring an interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. I know that bass players out there will really get a lot out this interview, and I think that they will enjoy the back and forth between co-host John Grillo, [...]

 

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Here is this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode! This episode features an interview with double bassist Greg Sarchet (pictured here with Flea). Greg is a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra and the double bass instructor at Northeastern Illinois University. You’ll hear Greg playing with the Vienna Waltz Ensemble, and at [...]

Illinois State University professor and double bassist Bill Koehler just released a new book called A Guide to the Developmental Processes of Improvisation and Composition. Here is a description of this book from Bill’s website. Visit that site to learn more about this new project. You can order a copy of the [...]

I recently found a great clip of the fabulous jazz bassist Brian Bromberg playing a solo at the Tokyo Blue Note. Brian plays a magnificent old Italian bass, and he has created some staggeringly amazing recordings in the past.
Brian has disabled YouTube embedding for his videos. I’m not sure why he’d do this. [...]

Carlos Del Pino is an amazing jazz double bass player from Cuba. Now living in NYC, he has become the epitome of passion, power and precision when performing. This cat is awesome!
Accompanying Carlos in the background, you can hear Chiemi Nakai (piano), Emmanuel Bizeau (conga’s) and David Eure (violin).
Check out how well he gets around [...]