Didja hear? Bobby C's back in town! Actually, bassist Bob Cunningham has always been around, but his first and only album as a leader, Walking Bass, has been released for the first time on CD.

Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

You don’t need a full band to bring a jazz standard to life, just three key techniques. In this video, I’ll show you how to take Bluesette and arrange it for solo piano using a walking bass line, the ...

Be it the musical expression of Dave Holland the melodic phrasing of Scott LaFaro the inventiveness of Charles Mingus or the flawless technique and artistry of Ray Brown in jazz as in most music the ...

The winner of several prestigious national awards, 17-year-old bass phenomenon John Murray has a seemingly boundless ability to enrich himself by devouring music — and food. How much food? Earlier ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an astonishing tale, which follows Jaco Pastorius from his early life through to stardom with Weather ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Sydney-based double bassist, Will Hansen, brings in his instrument to demonstrate the versatility of ...