Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Here’s a video of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio playing the intro to “Behind The Yashmak” live at the Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival in France from July 19, 2003.

Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi recently sent me a link to this new video from The Bass Gang’s recent Italian tour. What a great ensemble!

Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist (and Contrabass Conversations guest) Greg Sarchet sent me a link to what is pretty much the greatest bass video of all time. I’m not sure whether to put an ‘explicit’ warning on this one–let’s just say that you may want to skip this one if you have delicate sensibilities.
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Lyric Opera of Chicago and Northeastern Illinois bass teacher Greg Sarchet sent me a link to this video recently.  I remember seeing an earlier incarnation of this a while ago, and this is an updated version with new statistics.  I really like this video–it makes you think, and it’s the sort of thing that I [...]

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The outstanding double bassist Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) performs an excerpt of the fourth movement from Mendelssohn’s Sextet in D Major with Villa Musica. Listen to Guy Tuneh in interview on his Contrabass Conversations page, and check out more videos from him here.

Jason chats about the blog network Inside The Arts and why he enjoys being a member.

Jason chats about some of the new resources and projects happening here on DoubleBassBlog.org. Enjoy!

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Here’s a great clip of Christian McBride & Niels Pederson–two modern jazz giants on stage at a concert for Ray Brown.

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The outstanding double bassist Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) performs the third movement Sextet in D Major with Villa Musica. Listen to Guy Tuneh in interview to his Contrabass Conversations page, and check out more videos from him here.

I know that we’re well past the Messiah story trading season, but I couldn’t resist sharing this deliciously terrible video from double bassist Eric Steffens. Be sure to turn your speaker volume down–the person recording/transferring this had their settings really out of whack, and the audio quality is quite distorted. Still, if you [...]