The late Ghanaian inventor, entrepreneur, and pastor, Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo 'Kantanka,' was famously known for manufacturing automobiles such as the Omama SUV and Onantefo pickup truck. But what many ...

Seeing a woman born a century ago wielding an electric bass guitar isn’t something you come across every day. But for those who know Armina Joos, it’s just another ordinary Thursday. Joos, who was ...

The epic story behind Paul McCartney‘s stolen bass guitar, which was returned to him in 2024 after 51 years, will be told in a new feature-length documentary directed by Arthur Cary (“Surviving 9/11,” ...

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States (where he also died of a heart attack in 1968), Montgomery came from a musical family, in which his brothers, Monk (string bass and electric bass) and ...

“Jazz as we know it is dead,” DownBeat magazine boldly claimed in a 1967 headline. The same year of A Love Supreme maestro John Coltrane passed during the turbulent ‘Summer of Love’ rock. A period ...

“Fading away in a city that is hard to live in” — that’s the idea behind the video for Sam Akpro’s new single ‘Evenfall’, according to director Pedro Takahashi. Via rushing roadside time-lapse ...

Each night, elite jazz guitarists shared the stage in ever-changing trios, offering audiences a rare opportunity to witness musicians interact and communicate through jazz at the highest level. The ...

Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album explores liminal worlds through softly textured ambient ...

LOGAN, UT — Utah State University’s Department of Music presents the 2025 Guitar, Bass and Drums Festival and invites all students and community members to attend. This festival is an annual ...

While swimming through the flood of new recordings currently being released by independent jazz labels, we discovered several projects that are reviving the role of the guitar within the genre, going ...

Traditional rock bands typically feature four members – lead singer, drummer, guitarist, and bass guitarist. Of course, some groups expand on this configuration while others minimize the group, such ...