You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an astonishing tale, which follows Jaco Pastorius from his early life through to stardom with Weather ...

Pianist, composer and lyricist, Dave Bass, is a great American success story that reads like a riveting bio-pic script. This Cincinnati kid began piano lessons at age seven, and shortly after ...

Emanating from a musical hotbed in Pittsburgh; his maternal grandmother performed in minstrel shows, and taught piano; she had graduated cum laude; taught English to Italian immigrants, and taught ...

Editor’s Note: Since 1996, more than 320 teenage musicians have been transformed by the Vail Jazz Workshop. Many have become professional musicians, including six returning to Vail this Labor Day ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

The South Beach Jazz Festival has evolved over its ten years in Miami Beach as a cultural event that hasn’t just survived the ...

In the Afro-Caribbean musical tradition, the essential pulse on the low end can be conjured in a single word, tumbao. But within that word, there are worlds — as we know from the shining example of ...