Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Here is a quite cool (and very short) video of a 3-D rendering of a double bass, complete with a little pizzicato riffing in the background. I like how the virtual camera swoops down to string level, then beyond it to body level, like Luke Skywalker going into the trench of the Death [...]

Here’s a bit of light entertainment for folks today–it’s Messiah ‘performed’ by a pack of cross-dressing nuns.  Enough said!

The always excellent Boguslaw Furtok performs the third movement of the J.M. Sperger Concerto in A major with orchestra. Listen to that projection over the orchestra! If only it were a longer clip…

Here’s a dynamite arrangement of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” from a performance at Indiana University about ten years ago featuring the original members of the a capella ensemble Straight No Chaser. It’s a great little video to get folks out there in a holiday spirit! I’m getting more than enough ‘holiday spirit’ [...]

Really, who doesn’t love the Sabre Dance? The dynamic and entertaining bass quartet Bassiona Amorosa really ham it up in this performance. Great fun and great material for a live concert!

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The outstanding double bassist Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) performs thesecond 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.

This great performance of Bottesini’s ‘Passione Amorosa’ with bassists Minjea-Soung and Mikyung-Soung is only marred by the cell phone capture quality of the performance. There’s some lag, and it looks like the ‘camerman’ was getting a little excited with his phone, so you may get a headache trying to track the video with your [...]

Pascal has only started this great project, which runs along the same lines as our Contrabass Conversations video lesson series with Andy Anderson or our Hans Sturm series on the Rabbath technique. This video is very concise and contains no dialogue, but I think that it is interesting and a good contribution to the [...]

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This is likely to be the first time most people have ever hear Angel of Dusk, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s double bass concerto. Special thanks to double bassist Phillip Serna for securing the distribution rights to this piece.
This piece is approximately 26 minutes long. Two technical issues are worth noting:

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Here’s another excellent video from German bass ensemble Bassiona Amorosa. Learn more about them at www.bassiona-amorosa.de.