The winner of several prestigious national awards, 17-year-old bass phenomenon John Murray has a seemingly boundless ability to enrich himself by devouring music — and food. How much food? Earlier ...

Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

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

CAPA grad Christian McBride has been busy. The jazz bassist recently released a new album, which features a song with Sting ...

Over the last few years, jazzy covers of modern-day pop tunes with accompanying 1920s-style videos have been trending all over the internet. Many of these covers come from a project by pianist and ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first stumbled across Freddie Hubbard’s music, I didn’t expect it to hit so hard—emotionally, spiritually, and musically. But that’s the thing about Hubbard: his trumpet doesn ...

Organissimo's new CD is 'B3tles: A Soulful Tribute to the Fab Four' There’s nothing new about cover versions of Beatles songs, but the local band Organissimo has decided to create jazzy renditions of ...

Every month on All Things Considered, Christian McBride sits down with host Audie Cornish to discuss, dissect and deconstruct just about everything in jazz. But this conversation turns the focus ...