Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I heard this track a few months ago on the Project Studio Network podcast (a great show for people involved in recording or producing audio content).Some perceptive guy took a couple of Nickelback songs–How You Remind Me from 2001 and and Someday from 2003–and put one track in each stereo channel. The results? [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with double bassist Guy Tuneh, conducted over a distance of thousands of miles. It was a real pleasure to get to sit down and chat with Guy–he’s a warm, intelligent, and passionate individual, and these traits come through in his speaking just like they do [...]

On An Overgrown Path is perhaps the best example of how classical music blogging is moving ahead of traditional journalistic outlets. Bob Shingleton has become one of the leading voices in the world of classical music journalism, and he is a prime example of how the blogging medium is actually more useful than newspapers, [...]

 

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This week we are continuing our conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist Michael Hovnanian that we began on Episode 24 of the podcast. Michael has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1989, and he serves as the president of Discordia Music (double bass music publisher). Michael also plays for the Gunnelpumpers, [...]

I had the pleasure of sitting down and interviewing the great double bass virtuoso Guy Tuneh today. Guy radiates a love of the instrument in everything he does, and I know that musicians of all disciplines will love to hear this great artist speak from the heart.
If you haven’t heard Guy’s bass playing, you’re [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations podcast features the first part of our interview with double bassist Ranaan Meyer. John Grillo (a frequent guest and collaborator on the podcast) and I co-interviewed Ranaan, who is the bassist for the band Time for Three and has had a very interesting and multi-faceted career. In addition to [...]

Double bassist Kells Nollenberger took this shot of me while interviewing Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer for this week’s Contrabass Conversations podcast. I’m doing a conference call over Skype with bassist John Grillo and Ranaan, and recording the whole thing with HotRecorder:
I’ve got my earbuds in while doing this interview, and Kells is [...]

I’ve been noticing a real uptick in traffic after redesigning the Contrabass Conversations website. If you haven’t checked it out, take a look and let me know what you think! I’ve got some more plans for increased usability in the future, but I think that it is a real step forward from the [...]

After a few hiccups here and there, I’m proud to announce a totally redesigned Contrabass Conversations site. This professional design should hopefully serve the podcast well as it heads into the future, and I’d love to hear reader reactions to this site. The user experience here on the blog will remain the same, [...]

I just completed an excellent interview with Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer. John Grillo (a Contrabass Conversations regular) and I co-interviewed Ranaan, and you can expect the first part of this interview on next week’s podcast.
Ranaan is well-versed in classical, bluegrass, and jazz stylings as well as being a talented composer, and I [...]