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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover an exposé of great recent new and reissued jazz music releases that will appease even the most discerning jazz music ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a special treat in the last month ever of Huber in Estepona, the great Jazz diva Madeline Bell will be joining Daniel Amat ...