The event’s promoter and Sacramento civic leaders are assessing consumer demand to determine the size of next year’s event.

Jazz bass students receive double bass lessons in the classical area as well as in the award-winning CU Boulder Jazz Studies Program, recognized 15 times in the past decade by DownBeat magazine for ...

He was born in 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts, and started out as a classical double bassist before turning to rock and jazz.

Tarik Shah, who played with jazz greats in his youth, spent years behind bars after pleading guilty to plotting to teach ...

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 ...

He was largely self-taught and learned jazz by playing along to records by Oscar Pettiford, Ray Bryant and Lester Young. He also studied classical double-bass with Marion Brajsa, the principal ...

Find out more about how we test. The recent resurgence of 50s-style music, led most notably by the likes of Brian Setzer and Imelda May, has seen the double bass become an increasingly common sight ...

This weekend’s Newport Jazz Festival is the highlight event of the genre’s summer season, with headliners including Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat and Canada’s Diana Krall ...