Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

Unlike many of their peers, you can’t listen to Intronaut and ignore the fact that they have one of the most original bass talents in the genre today. Joe Lester, the band’s bearded purveyor of pulse, ...

Credit: Getty Images “The Jazz Bass has a really sweet neck ... to the atmospheric, to an all-out riff storm. “Sometimes I hit the bass so damn hard that you can hear not only the frets whack but ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...