Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Bass Musician Magazine, the bi-monthly publication for which I write a regular column.  This issue I contributed a piece on François Rabbath.  Blog readers will have seen all this material before here on the blog, but you can check out this article for a nice synopsis of Rabbath’s life and his contributions.
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We’ve got a real treat for folks today. Phillip Serna had to acquire special permission from the publisher of the Tubin Concerto for Double Bass in order for us to release it, and it is likely that many readers out there haven’t heard this piece before. I certainly haven’t found it on [...]

I recently discovered a great new blog by psychoanalyst Mike Jolkovski that analyses relationships and dynamics in music performance organizations.  What a great idea for a blog!  This is a subject of great interest to me, especially as I continue to write my This Crazy Business series of articles. 
Workingthrough.com covers some of the following [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations Episode features the second part of our interview with double bassist Donovan Stokes. We last spoke with Donovan on episode 40 of the show, discussing his early years on the instrument, his experiences attending various universities, and his former and current double basses. This week, we continue our discussion about [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the music [...]

I’m on my eighth cup of coffee right now as I sit perched over the Steppenwolf Theatre on the north side of Chicago, working on blog projects, podcasts, videos, and some interesting new behind-the-scenes goodies. I’m also putting the finishing touches on the seventh installment of This Crazy Business, my current set of loosely-related [...]

Readers of Adaptistration, the orchestra management blog by Drew McManus, may have noticed this in the sidebar recently:
Arts Addict A new blog from Jason Heath coming Nov. 19th
Whaaaa?  Jason is starting a new blog?  Yes, I am.  Although regular readers may think that I’m nuts (guessing correctly what a ridiculous amount [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]