Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

The Australia-born, Hollywood-raised Michael 'Flea' Balzary, so nicknamed for his diminutive stature and onstage leaps, is, many bassists feel, one of the finest funk bass players ever to stalk the ...

Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt, whose bass playing pounded through the Temptations hit "Ball of Confusion" and Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," has ...

Chris “Freekbass” Sherman is such a talented musician that you could drop him in the middle of the Midwest with only his bass guitar, his phone, and the clothes on his back and he’d figure out a way ...

Philadelphia's Best Of The Bass, Part 1 includes WRTI's 8 favorite bebop and hard bop players. The list of some of the most impactful bass players to have come out of Philadelphia continues with this ...

Light of Doom's members are all between the ages of 12 and 14. They got a huge boost on the Fox TV show The Next Great American Band, where judges advanced them through the first several rounds of ...

How do you make a bass line funky? Bassist Nik West gives Arthur L.A. Buckner a lesson. What are the ingredients of a funky bass line? Arthur L.A. Buckner gets a lesson from bassist Nik West and talks ...

How good are New Jersey bassists? Some of the most famous bass parts in music have been played by Jersey players. The bassline of the Smithereens' “Blood and Roses” is from Mike Mesaros of Carteret; ...

DETROIT (AP) - Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt has died. He was 74. Motown Museum chief curator Lina Stephens says the bassist died Monday in Nashville, Tenn.