Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I’ve been getting reports of mixed results with the little player buttons I have been using for the Virtual Master Class tracks and the Contrabass Conversations episodes. I am going to go ahead and make sure that there is a direct link that you can click for each file for all of the [...]

 

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Episode 14 for Contrabass Conversations features the final part of our interview with John Grillo and a double bass recording from jazz artist Terry Plumeri. Enjoy!
CBC 14 show notes

Length: 29:23
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This episode features Part 3 of our interview with double bassist John Grillo. You can listen to the [...]

Podcasting News wrote a post highlighting two classical music podcasts. I think it is great to see more podcasts covering this art form crop up. You can check out the Podcasting News post here. Both of these podcasts originate from Germany, which seems to be where most of the classical music podcasts [...]

Contrabass Conversations Episode 11 just got wrapped up, and I think that you all will really enjoy this one. It is a series of tracks performed by double bassist Andy Anderson with commentary between each track. Andy uses a wide array of set-ups on these tracks, and he gives listeners some info and [...]

I happened to catch one of the most engaging and fascinating lectures that I have ever heard in my life with blogger, copyright expert, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and co-author of the great blog Boing-Boing, Cory is to me [...]

Here is the second part of our interview with John Grillo on Contrabass Conversations. John and I had an excellent interview, and there will be one more episode containing our episode coming out in March.
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Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony double bassist Andy Anderson has just been appointed as a member of the bass faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. This is really exciting news both for Andy and for the bass community at large.
Here’s why:

Andy is [...]

 

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This is a special Recital Showcase edition of Contrabass Conversations featuring the music of John Grillo. John was interviewed on Contrabass Conversations episode 6. This episode is a live performance of John’s complete recital, which was performed in Pittsburgh, PA in 2006.
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Here is episode 7 of Contrabass Conversations! In this episode we continue our interview with Andy Anderson from the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Grant Park Symphony. You can subscribe to Contrabass Conversations in iTunes by clicking the following button:

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Here is what I came up for my recent talk on podcasting at DePaul University. Podcasting is a simple concept in some ways, yet I struggle to clearly communicate what it is and how it differs from previous technology. As I did this talk I realized at, while my brain is always spinning [...]