An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...
DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - Student Spotlight celebrates student success inside and outside the classroom across our area. Rainn Dyce, a 6th grader from Hartsville Middle School, was nominated by ...
Julie Davis started Bluebook as a solo project nearly two decades ago, singing and playing upright bass over beats and loops. But over the last five years, Bluebook has grown into a quartet with the ...
*For more than 50 years, bass player Rustee Allen has been “all funked up,” playing and recording with some of the most legendary singers and bands in the world of rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and gospel ...
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When the bass steps into the spotlight

At the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival, an instrument long consigned to the background becomes the through line of a century of jazz history — from New Orleans parades to fusion, funk and the ...
Out of all the essential instruments that are played in popular music, the bass guitar is almost always the least renowned. Lead singers, guitar players, drummers, even keyboard players—they are all ...