Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of Danish musician Ida Nielsen. Mark King, lead singer and bassist of the band Level 42. Photo of Victor WOOTEN. American ...

We often give glory to the soaring guitar solos or the powerhouse vocals, but the true heartbeat of any great track lives in the low end. The bass line bridges rhythm and melody, grounding the song ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tal Wilkenfeld's 2007 debut album was titled Transformation, and although it was an instrumental record made with a handful of New ...

We used to think of bass players as those bored-looking guys who stood near the back of the stage, thwacking beats one and three with the precision and passion of a metronome. Two recent performances ...

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...