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 ...

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At the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival, an instrument long consigned to the background becomes the through line of a century of jazz history — from New Orleans parades to fusion, funk and the ...

The bass is crucial. In many ways, it leads the band. Talk to any bass player and they’ll tell you, if he or she changes up the bass line or rhythm, the group will follow along almost hypnotically, ...