Jazz bassist Ben Allison will be in Chicago performing at both the Green Mill and the Chicago Cultural Center this weekend. Details follow. Check out one of these performances if you can! _____________ MARCH 13 – CHICAGO, ILChicago Cultural Center,...
When you think about it, isn’t it amazing that a group of musicians can ever play together in a symphonic setting? Honestly, having all those different instruments, from tuba to tympani, with all those methods of sound production, from blowing to plucking,...
I am a big fan of Twitter, putting up daily posts about whatever I’m busy doing. I think of my Twitter account (twitter.com/jasonheath) as my personal blog, with doublebassblog.org and artsaddict.com being more business-oriented web sites rather than traditional...
Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo just put up a post highlighting Michael Tilson Thomas (John’s music director during his time in the New World Symphony) and the San Francisco Symphony. John writes: The San Francisco Symphony led by music director...
I had the good fortune to be asked to perform a recital in 2006 on Gary Karr’s former bass, formerly attributed to Amati and previously owned by the great Serge Koussevitzky. This recital happened in the very early days of my blogging, and though I covered it...
