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 ...

Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The Grateful Dead’s co-founder died on October 25 at age 84. His approach to the ...

Soon after Leo Fender put the first mass-produced solidbody electric guitar, the Esquire, into production in the Spring of 1950, he turned his attention to its low-end equivalent, the Precision Bass.

There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar. Fernando Trueba PC (Spain) & Cinétéve (France)Credit... Supported by By Alex ...

Playing his electric bass and acoustic bass guitar, Pierluigi Balducci has performed at numerous festivals and jazz clubs throughout Italy, Europe, South America and Asia, collaborating with jazz ...

High-Energy Jazz with Depth "Electric Stories" – The New Album by Düsseldorf Jazz Pianist Sebastian Gahler After the great success of his Haruki Murakami-inspired album "Two Moons" (2022) – with over ...

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Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music, but for bassist and composer Giulio Xavier Cetto, the connection between the two is indivisible. “My main goal is to support as a bass ...

Philadelphia's Best Of The Bass, Part 1 includes WRTI's 8 favorite bebop and hard bop players. The list of some of the most impactful bass players to have come out of Philadelphia continues with this ...