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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz musician Since When?'s bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, ... Fender Jazz Electric Bass, (1) Ibanez SR300DXL Electric Bass Amplifiers: (1) Roland JC-90 Guitar Amplifier, ...

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.

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 ...

James Jamerson's immense contribution to Motown Records in the ’60s and ’70s went largely uncredited – but his game-changing adoption of the P-Bass, coupled with his off-kilter technique, makes him an ...

To test bass control. It wouldn’t be overstatement to call Jaco Pastorius a game-changer when it comes to jazz bass. He virtually single-handedly made electric bass an acceptable jazz instrument, and ...

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 ...