Esperanza Spalding is arguably one of the few modern players who are doing the most to advance the art of bass. Having recently stepped out of the purely jazz world, the singer and bass player has ...

he started out on the electric bass rather than the large bulky upright. But that didn't mean he wasn't listening to jazz acoustic bass players. In fact, two legendary jazz bassists — Ray Brown and ...

The audience was covered in a deep blue light, while the stage starkly contrasted with a warm yellow hue of light. All that ...

"If they have to rename the Gulf of Mexico then they better call it the Gulf of Miles Davis!" Grammy-nominated composer, ...

Dave Holland’s arrival in New York coincided with one of the most transformative periods for Miles Davis and his Lost Quintet ...

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As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has been praised as “a deeply intuitive” musician by The New York Times and as an instrumentalist with a “fluid ...

Which begs the question: which — if any — Jazz players have All-Stardom in their future, and how soon could we see them suit up with the league's best and brightest? The Finnisher is the only ...

Here are player grades for every member of this Jazz roster. Markkanen is the lone player on this squad who has ever appeared in an All-Star game after an outstanding debut season with the Utah ...

While walking along Chicago Avenue on the first Thursday of the month, you just might hear a crooning saxophone solo wafting ...

Marrying jazz ... bass just ticks over throughout, keeping everything in time. A great check of the overall balance and organisation of your system. One of the key questions a good sound system needs ...