From the godfather of thumpin’ and pluckin’ to Victor Wooten’s game-changing slap technique, we bring you the players that you must know if you want to call yourself a true bass aficionado ...

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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 ...

Jazz Highlights for Record Store Day 2025 article by Kyle Simpler, published on April 3, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

Having immersed himself as a teen in jazz's bandleader era, Quincy Jones credited one instrument with ending its rigid dominance in the music world.

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Following black midi's “indefinite hiatus”-turned-split, the group’s lead guitarist and singer, Geordie Greep, launched his ...

It's officially Big Ears Festival, that special time of year when people from all over the world arrive in Knoxville for a ...

A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering ...

During his career, Cray has appeared as an extra in “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” won a Grammy Award for his 1986 album ...

Jazz vocalist and composer Jacqui Naylor releases 12th Album Treasures of the Heart as double vinyl LP on April 11th 2025. CD & Streaming availa ...