“Is Charlie here yet?” The impending arrival of the veteran jazz bassist was clearly causing anxious excitement despite the ...

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

Anthony Jackson, one of the most versatile recorded bassists in music history and creator of the “contrabass guitar,” died in Staten Island.

Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music, but for bassist and composer Giulio Xavier Cetto, the connection between the two is indivisible. “My main goal is to support as a bass ...

Bass virtuoso and composer Stanley Clarke is slated to return to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on November 9 with his ...

Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The Grateful Dead’s co-founder died on October 25 at age 84. His approach to the ...

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Tito Mangialajo Rantzer (born in Milano, Italy, on June 3rd, 1967) accomplished his studies with Franco Feruglio, Giorgio Azzolini, Furio Di Castri, Walter Booker, Dave Holland, Barre Phillips. He ...

There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

Questo disco nasce nel 2014, pensato per dare seguito al precedente lavoro del quartetto messo assieme da Pierluigi Balducci, Blue for Heaven, ma la scelta del contenuto (e quindi del titolo) è dovuta ...

The fact the bass guitar looks so much like a regular, six-string electric guitar can lead some to assume it’s an inferior or secondary instrument. However, anyone who's ever played one knows this is ...