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, ...

(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 ...

Blistering funk demands meticulous syncopation and ... And jazz-fusion legends like Jaco Pastorius expanded the limits of bass playing to rival any guitar virtuoso. Understanding the ...

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.” ...

His bass playing is equal parts funk, jazz, rock, and punk. He grew up playing trumpet while studying Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. He was consumed by jazz and had little interest in rock ’n ...

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 ...