Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Bass Blog: Pledge of Allegiance
CSO bassist Michael Hovnanian explains the mysterious flag on his blog sidebar.
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WP-Plugin - GZ Calendar Date Style [WordPress English version] · GialloZafferano Blog
Cute plugin for WordPress to add a picture of the date on a graphic. Looks nice!
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Bebo has [...]

Rautavaara Bass Concerto
This is likely to be the first time most people have ever hear Angel of Dusk, Einojuhani Rautavaara’
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Adaptistration: Breaking News: JAX Government Weighs In On Lockout
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The Radiohead pay-what-you-want deal, part 786
Yet more Radiohead album giveaway news.
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We’ve got a few quick news items collected over the past week to start off your week:

Exploring Chamber Music with the Chicago Chamber Musicians now live - We recently launched our new collaborative series between Contrabass Conversations and the Chicago Chamber Musicians.  This project was conceived by Chicago Symphony Orchestra double bassist Brad Opland, and [...]

Folks have probably noticed the massive facelift that the blog has undergone over the past week.  That is actually only the tip or the iceberg as far as new functionality for www.doublebassblog.org.  Moving to WordPress is something that I should have done a long time ago, and my tinkering over the past few days has [...]

Among the 10,000 new options possible with my recent move to WordPress is the option to print any post.  Folks have been asking about this for a while now, and it was really hard (basically impossible in any useful way) to implement on my old Blogger set-up.  Check it out–it’s really slick.
BTW, I’m in the [...]

People reading the bass blog on their Google Reader (or other RSS reader) won’t probably be noticing anything strange at the moment with this post, but folks reading this on the DoubleBassBlog.org site will notice that everything looks….different!  I finally made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which means two things:

There is a huge amount [...]

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more control and flexibility.  I seem [...]

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dad bass weatherford, originally uploaded by bunæn.

This great photo of the solitary bass player was taken by a Japanese exchange student of active Flickr (great photo sharing service) member Bunaen’s father. There [...]

Mustech.net blogger Joseph Pisano recently put out a list of his favorite blogs relating to music education, and it was great to see doublebassblog.org opening the list.  Thanks, Joseph!  I really enjoy this blog, checking in regularly through my RSS reader to catch up on the latest in music technology.
Here are a few of the [...]

Folks have asked me before about the ‘related posts’ links that I usually include in the footer of each blog post, inquiring whether I use a program to generate these.  If only!  While there are some WordPress plug-ins that automatically create related links (one of the reasons why I will likely move this blog over [...]