“When I got my first real bass, a ’66 Jazz Bass… the thing was already stripped down, but it didn’t take long for me to start pulling that thing apart and seeing what else I could do with it,” he says ...

John Murray was in a happy daze after winning Outstanding Bass honors at the 24th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival on May 11 at New York's Jazz at Lincoln ...

Hugh Masekela Label: Wrasse Records Released: 2019 Views: 3,114 Tracks CD1: The Emancipation Of Hugh Masekela: A Felicadee; Why Are You Blowing My Mind; She Doesn’t Write; Do Me So La So So; Ha Lese ...

Bijoux Barbosa Eduardo “Bijoux” Barbosa provides jazz studies double bassists with excellent training in jazz and latin styles. Barbosa’s career as a bass guitarist and double bassist began in his ...

Jazz album: “66 2/3” by The Frank & Joe Show, released in 2005 on Hyena Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

Martin Drew, a British jazz drummer who was a member of the pianist Oscar Peterson’s internationally popular group for three decades, died on July 29 in London. He was 66. The cause was a heart ...

By Carla Bley and Steve Swallow After years of playing acoustic jazz bass with the likes of Stan Getz, Paul Bley, Art Farmer and Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow switched to electric bass in 1970.

WILLIAMSTOWN — George Cables remembers the night of his first gig with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was 1969 and the 24-year-old piano player had just joined the group at the recommendation of ...