Jazz bass students receive double bass lessons in the classical area as well as in the award-winning CU Boulder Jazz Studies Program, recognized 15 times in the past decade by DownBeat magazine for ...

Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to ...

Rodney Whitaker is associate professor of double bass and director of jazz studies at the Michigan State University College of Music. Whitaker is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz ...

MSU jazz studies director Rodney Whitaker was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September.

With the bass as the band’s heartbeat, Owens tuned into both her craft and that of her fellow musicians. Balanced by energy ...

Legendary jazz musician and Winchester native John Kirby will be celebrated at this Friday’s Bistro Concert at the Shenandoah ...

the ex-teacher born in 1951 who played in jazz and fusion bands before forming the Police in 1977, playing whopping great basslines and being a massive rock star. Fretted, fretless, double bass ...

AN EXUBERANT contemporary folk band with roots in Cornwall is set to play as part of Lostwithiel’s concert series. Gavin ...