Many—including Victor Wooten, Rob Kassinger, John Clayton, Rob Fahie, Marc Johnson, John Goldsby, Mark Dresser, Reggie Workman and Stafford James—have come to the College of Music to work with our ...

The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western classical music. The bass is used ...

Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting was ... which was incredibly eclectic – everything from African music to classical symphonies. Jazz, too – Kenny Kirkland pointed out ...

Jazz music can be played by lots of different types ... A jazz trio often contains a piano or other instrument to play the melody, with double bass and drums providing the rhythm.

Those who have found the Bill Evans Jazz Resource on the Internet ... He only took up the double bass the summer before he entered college, since learning a string instrument was required for music ...

and they are very often at the heart of the music. The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the orchestra, and a great instrument to learn if you want to play jazz. It got its name from ...

Misha received a scholarship to study double bass at the Royal Academy of Music on the prestigious Masters jazz course with Jasper Høiby, Tom Herbert, Michael Janisch and Jeremy Brown. During his ...

MSU jazz studies director Rodney Whitaker was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September.