Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This was created by the Official Seal Generator. Check it out! It sounds silly, but you can lose hours tweaking your seal. I originally this on a recent post from Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders blog.
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A few days ago I wrote a post about the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. John C. Dvorak just brought this article to my attention (see his post here). He writes about a recent article on the inept way in which emergency relief money was handled after Hurricane Katrina:
The donated cash met a [...]

Last night the Ravinia Festival Orchestra played along with movie classics in Gotta Dance (At the Movies)! under the baton of Robert Moody. Maestro Moody has been the music director of the Pohenix Symphony for the past several seasons. He is an engaging and dynamic person to work with, and he made the [...]

Anyone who is interested in how blogging evolved should check out a great summary available online from Rebecca Blood. I discovered this post from Darren Rowse of Problogger.net. Darren is a professional blogger and maintains a number of different blogs. His Problogger blog is a very interesting read–I check in daily. [...]

I have mentioned this before on my blog, but double bassist Peter Tambroni’s excellent new work An Introduction to Double Bass playing is now available. I highly recommend this book. It is a well-crafted and intelligently conceived resource for beginners, experienced players, teachers, and parents.
Peter has been a clinician for many years [...]

Today (August 29) is the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and it is valuable to take time and reflect on the state of New Orleans one year later. Visit the Hurricane Katrina Pictures blog for more information on the state of affairs one year later. The Louisiana Philharmonic, which was not in [...]

These are some of my favoite photos from Flickr. These photos all belong to the 1000 views + 100 favorites pool, of which I am a member (though none of my stuff resembles this). Check out my Flickr photos here.

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Chicago’s Jazz Showcase, the venerable club owned and operated by Joe Segal for nearly 60 years, is losing its lease. It will be forced to move January 1, 2007. The Jazz Showcase has been located at 59 W. Grand Avenue in Chicago (just west of the Magnificent Mile) for the last 10 years. [...]

My posts are now being distributed through NashvillesNews.net. Check out the site (whether you are in the Nashville area or not)–it is full of useful information. You can click the logo to the left to visit the site. If you check out the site you will find my posts popping up throughout [...]

Recently I have been playing around a lot with Eyespot , the video shaing/editing/mixing application by David Dudas and company. Eyespot was created in 2005 and is really a cool application. Although it has only a fraction of YouTube’s juggernaut of a user base, Eyespot is definitely worth a visit. You can [...]