Hosted by Jason Heath · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 1,000 episodes
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Contrabass Conversations features interviews and performances from top leaders in the world of the double bass. Podcast host Jason Heath dives deep into what makes these world-class artists tick. With 2 million downloads and counting, Contrabass Conversations is the most popular podcast for double bassists. Join the community and experience life on the low end of the spectrum!
Jason Heath hosts Contrabass Conversations, a music show with 1,000 episodes published.
Hal Robinson joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on bass pedagogy, sound, and the practical fundamentals that actually move the needle. Hal reflects on his path from early studies with Paul Ellison to a car
Bassist, composer, and educator Mary Ann McSweeney joins Jason to talk about a career that spans Bay Area roots, L.A. training, and the demanding, ever-shifting world of Broadway and studio work. Mary Ann shares how pian
Caleb Quillen returns to the podcast to talk about the path that took him from growing up in Sugar Land, Texas, to principal bass of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Along the way, he reflects on formative teachers, includ
Photo credit: Oscar Benjamin Berg Bassist, improviser, and genre-crosser Georgia Wartel Collins joins us today to talk about the winding path that led her to New York, via Gothenburg, Trondheim, and Amsterdam, and how a
Glasgow-based bassist David Bowden joins the show on release day for Unsung Songs , a solo double bass record shaped by years of gigging and arranging. David talks about coming up in London before moving to Glasgow for t
Rosie Moon joins us today to share the story behind *Twelve Bees In A Jar , her* multi-year Dragonetti project exploring his music on gut strings, a three-string bass, and a convex "Dragonetti" bow. Rosie talks about how
Bowen Ha joined the San Francisco Symphony at the start of the 2024–25 season after training at Juilliard with Timothy Cobb and Harold Robinson, and appearing as a substitute with major orchestras. Born in Shanghai, Bowe
John Goldsby returns to the podcast to celebrate Big Band Bass , a project that spotlights the double bass at the front of the band alongside the legendary WDR Big Band and arranger/conductor Bob Mintzer . We talk about
Valentina Ciardelli , double bass professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and an active performer/educator, returns to the podcast to talk about a project that goes way beyond the practice room: fixin
Stephan Crump is a Brooklyn-based bassist, composer, and educator whose work moves fluidly between groove, spacious sound-worlds, and collective improvisation. We dig into the making of Slow Water , the magnetism of deep
Michał Bylina is a Polish bassist and composer whose work bridges early music performance and new music for the instrument. In this conversation, Michał shares how a love of the past pulled them toward gut strings, Baroq
Isaac Trapkus is a bassist with the New York Philharmonic, rosin maker , and developer of Monkey Wrench DB —a tool that syncs sheet music PDFs with YouTube performances. He's also the creator of a free urtext-style editi
Bassist and arts administrator Thomas Zera joins us today to share what changed between our first chat years ago and now, including life in the Utah Symphony and the path that led to building his new project, The Sub Poo
Casey Lipka is a Los Angeles–based singer, songwriter, bassist, and collaborator with a gift for building community around music. In this episode, Casey shares the winding path that brought her into jazz voice, bass, and
This episode with Johnny Hamil and friends is a celebration of the music of Lloyd Goldstein . Enjoy this, and be sure to join Johnny and company March 21st at 11am Central Time via Zoom . You can visit KC Bass Workshop f
In this episode, we're joined by bassist, composer, and bandleader Marlonius aka, Marlon Martinez , the creative force behind the Marlonius Jazz Orchestra . We talk about growing up in a deeply musical family, moving thr
John Mietus is a composer, double bassist, and conductor, currently Associate Principal Bass with the Auckland Philharmonia . Born in Hong Kong and raised in Ohio, John started playing bass at age four and went on to stu
Niklas Lukassen is a German bassist, composer, and doctoral researcher splitting his time between London and Berlin. His bandleader debut album Still Waters releases February 20th on Kurt Rosenwinkel's Heartcore Records
Jon Henriksson is a Stockholm-based double bassist and composer who has become one of the leading voices in the contemporary Scandinavian jazz scene. Born in 1996 in Gothenburg, his path to the bass started when a high s
Chris Jennings is a Canadian left-handed double bassist who's been based in Paris since 2002, traveling extensively across jazz and world music projects to all corners of the globe. A D'Addario Orchestral Artist , Chris
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Contrabass Conversations is hosted by Jason Heath. The show is categorised under music (interviews) and has published 1,000 episodes.
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