An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...

“People want to come in and play the basses. I hear this over and over, they say 'I've always wanted to come,' or 'this is the shop! I've always imagined what it looked like,'” says Toni Buffa, who ...

By the time the bass guitar came along in 1951, upright bass players had been slapping and pulling on their strings for several decades. Milt Hinton was one such player who pioneered a percussive ...

Although I’m generally happy as a clam, I think I’ll always regret just a tiny bit that I never dated an upright bass player. There’s something so intriguing and sexy about how upright bassists ...

The upright bass is the Rodney Dangerfield of jazz: it can’t get no respect. The old joke goes this way: A couple trying to save their marriage goes to a therapist. Their chief complaint: they don’t ...

NEW ORLEANS – Local musicians are pitching in to help upright bass player Grayson Brockamp recover from a devastating car crash. Brockamp’s car was struck by a stolen vehicle during a police chase on ...