Ten Months of Blogging!

September begins my tenth month of blogging. I was recently going over my archived posts from my first couple of months with this blog, and it is pretty painful to read these old posts. My blog (to me, at least) has gotten a lot better over the months, and I hope that...

Eyespot Rocks!

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,...

New Podcast Tracks by Bjorn Berkhout

I just added two new tracks to my podcast Jason Heath’s Double Bass Performances. They are both live cuts or pieces that I premiered by the composer Bjorn Berkhout. Bjorn is a member of the Loyola University faculty and is an internationally recognized composer....

Jackson Pollock Paint Site

I just found this really fun site courtesy of John C. Dvorak’s blog. Click the picture below to try it out! As you paint, click the mouse to change paint colors. It sounds like Eric Stamen created this program a couple of years ago.John’s blog is a really...

Jazz Practicing Resources

I just discovered a great educational resource for jazz musicians–I am surprised that I haven’t seen this site before. PlayJazzNow.com distributes play-along MP3 files for jazz practicing. They have tracks for drummers, bassists, vocalists, horn players,...