While Ray Brown could swing heavy with bebop pioneers like Dizzy Gillespie, he’s probably best known for part in pianist Oscar Peterson’s trio from 1951-1966. Brown’s buoyant playing seemed to match ...

Geddy Lee is a master of the melodic bassline, but there's one modern player who he believes has taken things even further ...

Limp Bizkit, with roots in Jacksonville, Florida, emerged in the late 1990s with a sound that melds alternative rock, heavy ...

If you were to make a short list of the greatest bass players of all time, Bootsy Collins would surely be included. After firing his backing band in the late ’60s, James Brown hired Collins and his ...

Chris Squire’s impact on the world of progressive rock is still felt to this day – as is the music he helped create. A decade after his death, Prog asked former bandmates, collaborators and artists ...

Victor Wooten remembers sitting on his mother's lap backstage at a Curtis Mayfield show. He was about 6 and, along with his four older brothers, had just finished playing the opening set for the ...

“The biggest challenge with this gig is making sure that everything runs like clockwork,” says Tony Russell of his role as both bass player and MD of Kendrick Lamar’s live show. “I’m the first bass ...

Sam Rivers, the bass player in the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday, according to social media posts by his band ...