Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

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Thundercat is a bass-playing wunderkind who hails from the West Coast, currently home to a vanguard of young, progressive soul and jazz artists – fearsome talents like Kamasi Washington, Kendrick ...

"Ear training for jazz is much more advanced than it is in classical conservatories," Anderson said. That ear training, essential to an improviser, also has come in handy for Anderson as a composer.

Bob Babbitt, a bassist for Motown Records and key accompanist to some of the recording studio's biggest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations, died July 16at a hospice near ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have had a more significant influence on both funk and soul music than Larry Graham. As the pioneering bassist of Sly and the Family Stone and the dynamic frontman of ...

An extensive collection of instruments and memorabilia belonging to bassist Bootsy Collins is going up for sale on music platform Wax Poetics. Along with a variety of records, pieces of clothing and ...

Expressive, versatile, and dripping in history - the fizzing frequencies of funk and the seductive sounds of soul are ever-alluring; and when all these sounds merge on a festival lineup, you can bet ...

“The bass is the foundation,” session legend Carol Kaye once said, “and with the drummer you create the beat. Whatever you play puts a framework around the rest of the music.” A great bass line, ...