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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

among which are Building Jazz Bass Lines and The Music of Ron Carter; the latter contains 130 of his published and recorded compositions. Carter earned a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman ...

Jazz bassist Tarik Shah, rebuilding his life in New York's Capital Region, is the subject of a new documentary.

A saxophone. A drum set. A double bass. These are three instruments that can be played traditionally, but on Mar. 6, the jazz ...