Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Memphis Symphony principal bassist Scott Best (who will be a guest on Contrabass Conversations in the coming weeks) recently pointed me to this great video from University of Iowa bass professor Volkan Orhon performing the Concerto for Bass Viol and Orchestra by John Harbison.
Check out the video of Volkan here.
This performance is part [...]

Rob Kassinger (Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist DePaul University faculty member) will be performing the Bottesini Concerto in b minor with the DePaul Chamber Orchestra this November.  If you are able to make it, definitely check out this performance–it is a rare local opportunity to hear a great double bassist perform a great piece [...]

Alex Ross linked to the bass blog (along with the fabulous oboeinsight and several other classical music blogs) in his recent New Yorker column titled The Well-Tempered Web.  Check out this piece by Alex–it is a very interesting look at his own experiences blogging (he started The Rest is Noise in 2004)  and how, while [...]

 
Michael Cameron and Larry Gray (University of Illinois bass faculty) will be performing a master class and workshop in the Libertyville, Illinois area on Monday, October 22nd, around 10 a.m.  If you’re in the metro Chicago area, come and check it out!  More specific time and location details will be coming soon, but here is [...]

Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

Arts as Background Noise - This interesting post from Butts in Seats discusses criteria for supporting arts-friendly politicians. Interesting [...]

I have been remiss in reporting interesting news items and other people’s blog posts as of late. I have a whole list of them tagged for blogging (which you can always check out by visiting my link blog), but I’ve been so busy with the stories, articles, audio, and video projects that I’ve kind of [...]

We’ve blogged about the excellent bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons several times in the past on the blog (check out previous stories here, here, or here).  He’s truly an amazing and innovative player on the instrument.
Renaud’s tour manager recently contacted me, wondering if I might pass along some of his upcoming North American appearances.  If you’re around [...]

My good friend and fellow blogger Josh Nemith (also the pianist for the IRIS Orchestra and Dayton Philharmonic, and formerly of the New World Symphony) just got featured on Chris Foley’s Pagecast of Classical Music Blogs.  I found out about this through a recent post on Africlassical.  Check out Josh’s post here–it’s an excellent post [...]

My friend and fellow IRIS ORchestra musician Josh Nemith just put out a post on his Cincinnati Pianist Blog about an upcoming performance of George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, complete with photos of himself demonstrating all the various inside-the-piano plucking gestures required from this piece and a short YouTube video demonstrating these techniques. [...]

We have featured Ranaan Meyer, the bassist for the excellent bluegrass/classical/unclassifiable trio Time for Three, in both audio and video episodes on Contrabass Conversations. You can click here to check them out over on the CBC page. We’ll be putting out the final part of our interview with Ranaan and another video episode [...]