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 ...

Featuring: DONNA BYRNE, vocalist; GRAY SARGENT, guitar; TIM RAY, piano; LES HARRIS JR, drums; MARSHALL WOOD, upright bass.

Kate Davis talked to Art Beat about her attraction to the bass and writing her own songs before a recent performance at Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. While she makes playing ...

Retro-inspired grooves can mean a lot of things—it depends on how far back one wants to go. On Downright Upright, bassist Brian Bromberg takes a retro tour of the era when Freddie Hubbard and Herbie ...

Worster, 78, hasn’t played his upright bass in 20 years. He’s been living at the Rowlett Health and Rehabilitation Center since 2002, hampered in movement and speech by a degenerative muscular ...

Usually, the guy playing the upright bass in a jazz band stands in the back, smoothly plucking out the beat. But Esperanza Spalding, who is performing at Long's Park Sunday night in the Summer Concert ...

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