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 ...

For the past few years, 10-year-old Ellen Alaverdyan has charmed millions of viewers with her phenomenal, funky bass playing and her infectious smile. Fostered by her father Hovak, also a musician, ...

They’re bringing the funk to Brooklyn during your lunch hour. Legendary Sly and the Family Stone musician Larry Graham — the grand-daddy of the slap-bass technique who gave rise to a whole genre of ...

How do you make a bass line funky? Bassist Nik West gives Arthur L.A. Buckner a lesson. What are the ingredients of a funky bass line? Arthur L.A. Buckner gets a lesson from bassist Nik West and talks ...

Joe Dart and Sterling By Music Man have teamed up for a very special signature bass guitar that shares all the look and vibe of the Vulpeck bassist’s Ernie Ball Music Man high-end four-strings and yet ...

Young shakes hands with a student at Starting Gate before returning home to Sacramento. The bass player for 'Con Funk Shun' visited the Vallejo school Friday morning. (Rich Freedman--Times-Herald) ...

Students from nine states concentrate as they rehearse during a class at the seventh annual Kansas City Bass Workshop. Kansas City audiences might know Johnny Hamil from his funky bass lines in the ...

There’s nobody like Bootsy, baby. The man born William Collins is the bass guitar’s main ambassador to the furthest reaches of outer and inner space. His peerless funk resume, including stints with ...

The P-Funk bassist was a street kid in the 60s, got his break with James Brown, then spent much of the 70s taking LSD. He talks about drugs, racism, police brutality – and the healing power of music ...