After years of playing acoustic jazz bass with the likes of Stan Getz, Paul Bley, Art Farmer and Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow switched to electric bass in 1970. It was a graceful and fruitful ...

Marlow Jazz Club is set to welcome a quintet honouring a classic British group. The Barn Club in Marlow Bottom will host the ...

While his bass skills can be heard on the outstanding 1953 Jazz at Massey Hall live album with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Max Roach, his landmark 1959 Columbia disc, Mingus Ah ...

Bob Cranshaw, a versatile jazz bassist best known for his association with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, whom he accompanied on virtually every concert and album since 1962, died Nov. 2 at his home ...

Playing his electric bass and acoustic bass guitar, Pierluigi Balducci performed at numerous festivals and jazz clubs throughout ... He teaches jazz electric bass at Matera music university, and is ...

His performance focus is jazz bass, which includes both upright bass and electric bass. For years I have been hearing from fellow students, teachers, and others I have met that I have an “odd ...

Ahmed Abdul-Malik, himself a sonic giant, commands the bass and the band with the imagination and the vision to create a truly fused collaboration of a typical U.S. jazz ensemble with an Egyptian one.

By 1959 the company had decided it was high time they revisited and progressed their concept of the solidbody electric bass guitar. Released in 1960 with a standard threetone Sunburst finish, offset ...

All About Jazz is celebrating John Patitucci's birthday today! Born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, John Patitucci began playing the electric bass at age ten. John began composing and performing at age ...

Legendary jazz bass player Stanley Clarke returns to Yoshi's for a three-night run with his latest band starting Friday night. One of the most prodigiously talented bassists to emerge during the ...

The song took on a rich sonic complexity after Mr. Flowers suggested overdubbing the acoustic bass line with a mirroring sequence on his Fender Jazz electric bass, but 10 notes higher. Image Mr ...