Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

John Grillo discusses the IRIS Orchestra - John Grillo (a frequent collaborator for the blog and the podcast) writes about [...]

I stumbled upon this blog post over the weekend, discovering a very funny Van Halen video from early October, 2007.  Apparently, the synthesizer in the opening of the classic Van Halen tune ‘Jump’ started playing at 48K instead of 44.1 K, causing a….bit of a problem when the other instruments came in.  Eddie Van [...]

Charles Noble wrote a very interesting post on his Daily Observations blog recently concerning his thoughts on teaching, mentioning that he always compares the attitudes and levels of preparation, commitment, and overall dedication to his own attitudes as a young student:
I guess it’s not a totally fair judgment, but I always put the students that [...]

If I could do it again, there’s no way that I would have started this blog on Blogger. While I really like and appreciate the powerful toolset that Google makes available to the user with Blogger, and although I generally appreciate their (since Beta Blogger in 2006) reliable service and low (free, actually) cost, [...]

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers). Anyway, she does a weekly wrap-up that I always find [...]

Patty from oboeinsight just clued me in to this fantastic blog by double bassist Robert Meyer. I can’t believe that this blog has escaped my attention. It is (like the title suggests) a series of reminiscences on Robert’s extremely varied career in the music business, and it is a great read. Here [...]

Charles Noble just gave my car fire story a plug over on his blog Daily Observations. Thanks, Charles! One of the cool things about blogging is how this content lives on over the months and years. Daily Observations is an excellent music blog, and I’d encourage folks to check it out.
Check out [...]

Bassist Rick McLaughlin (a member of the Grammy-nominated Either/Orchestra and AlterEGO electric upright endorser) will be showing his AlterEGO basses this Saturday (5/26) 2pm in Rhinebeck, New York. Here are the details:
You can also visit Rick’s blog for more information on these instruments, and you can check out his website at RickMcLaughlin.com. Along [...]

Patty from oboeinsight made some recent posts highlighting a story about auditioning on Charles Noble’s blog Daily Observations. Check out the story–it is about his recent audition for the Seattle Symphony, and it is a great document the whole complicated and stressful process.
This is a great “insider” classical music blog. I just added [...]

I am in the midst of a whole bunch of web projects right now, many of which I think readers will find very cool. I’ll elaborate a little more in the next few weeks, but I’ll have some very interesting things to announce in terms of resources for this site.
I have spent the last [...]