Nowadays funk bass is faster and more technical than ... Now it's like ‘You play bass? Oh, cool!’ It's the thing now.” “It was a gradual thing – it didn't happen all of a sudden.

Bassists like Larry Graham come around maybe once a century. Widely credited as the man who invented thumping and plucking, ...

Fittingly, they get the party started with “Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)” by Jerome Brailey, George ...

And Mr. Jackson’s restless bass playing had everything to do with it. “Paul Jackson was an unusual funk bass player, because he never liked to play the same bass line twice, so during ...

“Nobody wanted to play bass, they wanted to be up front ... rock warriors like Cream’s Jack Bruce and the Who’s John Entwistle; funk masters like Bootsy and Sly and the Family Stone ...

(funky music) Simple, right? But funk isn't just what you play, but it's how you play it. So, to help me break this all down, I called Nik West. She's an amazing bass player. She's worked with ...

Other influences include legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins ... those were the main people I knew when I was starting to play bass,” she says. “And also because I’ve known Victor Wooten ...

Brown’s stripped-down music was filled with syncopated drums, propulsive bass lines and fiery ... White band that had a monster funk hit in 1976 called “Play That Funky Music.” ...

Just had the funk in him... ♪ but he also revolutionized funk music because he would play the bass on the synthesizer. Clinton: Which was a new sound that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and King ...

File it all under jazz, soul and funk ... player Jason Lemon, bass player Kiev Simonfy, drummer Zach Olivier and keyboardist Matt Stanton, have been specializing in playing since forming just ...