A rundown of the best funk bass players of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, and the monster groovers around today ...

While the set-up of drums, guitar, bass, keys and singer ... intricate strumming patterns, which gelled with the other rhythmic elements to create funk’s danceable nature. One of the genre ...

When we met with the elder statesmen of funk bass in May 2007 ... had to be on the money because the bassline sets the pattern.” How did you record your lines? "A lot of stuff was cut live ...

Pioneered by artists like James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, and George Clinton, funk stripped music down to its rhythmic ...