For both classical and jazz bass players, performance opportunities in the local musical community abound. College of Music double bassists perform professionally as regular members and substitutes ...

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 ...

Not to be confused with his namesake trumpeter, he was born in 1970 and grew up in a small town near Jerusalem in Israel. In ...

Rodney Whitaker is associate professor of double bass and director of jazz studies at the Michigan State University College of Music. Whitaker is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz ...

I started to learn the double bass in a ... do you enjoy about that music? Honestly I barely listen to classical music in my free time! I really love to listen jazz, pop music, Latin music such ...

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 ...