Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Believe it or not, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago used to advertise in Time magazine. Here is an ad from 1998 featuring the bass section. I am the second player from the right. One of my favorite things about this picture is the obvious empty stool in the middle [...]

I had an interesting Chicago Master Singers performing experience that I’d like to share. A couple of years ago I was hired by the Chicago Master Singers (see previous post) as the only instrumentalist for a couple of their concerts. The concert program was Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, a great piece for unaccompanied choir. [...]

I am playing this Friday and Satrday (10/20 and 10/21 at 8 p.m.) with the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Master Singers at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. For tickets, phone 630-752-5010 or visit this website. We are performing Mendelssohn’s Elijah, which is a powerful oratorio. It has a fiendishly [...]

I just found this in a recent post on Boing Boing, and although it is not music or bass related in the slightest, I still think it is worth posting.
From the National Geographic:
Conflicts between baboons and humans in the suburbs of prosperous Cape Town have gotten so bad that monitoring teams have [...]

I’d like to congratulate my four students who made it into the District 7 Illinois Music Educators Association orchestra for Illinois. Scott Bakshis (who was principal bass for Illinois All-State last year), Ian Hallas (who was principal bass for district IMEA last year), Zach Yordy and Cameron Shenassa all got in. Great job, [...]

Peter Ngan put together a great video recently using my recording of the first movement of the Eccles Sonata. I performed this piece in June this year on Gary Karr’s former 1611 “Amati” bass. It is a great juxtaposition of images and music, and it is very flattering that he would [...]

This is such an amazing video. It features Mr. T singing “Treat Your Mother Right”. Mr. T has a hard time singing in time, but he totally sincere with this song and it is completely compelling. It is also the ultimate 1980s video. Look how the women are dressed, and [...]

NEWS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: David Lussier, Secretary-Treasurer AFM Local 8
Milwaukee, WI (October 12, 2006) – The 46 orchestra musicians employed by the Milwaukee Ballet have voted to reject the company’s wage proposal for the 2006/2007 season, which is scheduled to open this weekend (October 12-15) with four performances of “Don Quixote.”
Some 90% [...]

The Lake Forest Symphony is performing tonight and tomorrow night at the The James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts on the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake, IL. The soloist for the weekend [...]

Check out this great clip from YouTube of a performance of the Super Mario Bros theme on an 11 string bass!

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