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 ...

Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to ...

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 ...

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

In a family that lives for and through music, from childhood, he devoted himself to learning first the piano and then the bass. Quite naturally… Like many artists drawn to jazz before him ...

Eric Ajaye is a master electric and double bass player - and on this playlist, he's bringing to you tunes from a handful of the leaders who have forged their own sound on the electric bass.

Although she is 16 years old, Maggie Carter wields the double bass like nobody’s business ... and one day there was a bassist, playing jazz. I turned to my mom and asked her why anyone would ...

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 ...