BASS EXPO 2014: In jazz, ... tutor Matt Mead is playing a Cort Artisan B4 20th bass guitar through a Hartke Kickback 15 combo amp. The B4 bass features Bartolini MK-1 Pickups and MK-1 EQ, ... design, ...

The seven-piece ensemble – consisting of reeds, cornet, trombone, banjo/guitar, piano and drums – play songs in the style of classic 20s and 30s jazz. While the band does travel around the ...

Maybe the bass will be best coming from a keyboard or a sample, or my bass guitar that's tweaked through distortion pedals. It's different for each track, but I never want to play something simply ...

Oakley added a Hagstrom Bi-Sonic pickup to his 1972 Jazz Bass, giving him a total of three pickups and five control knobs ...

The bass guitar is on the Mount Rushmore of instruments for rock and metal bands, but that dosen't mean a band always has a bassist in the group. There are some bands out there, even a couple ...

Legendary jazz bass player Stanley Clarke returns to Yoshi's for a three-night run with his latest band starting Friday night. One of the most prodigiously talented bassists to emerge during the ...

Like many of Prince‘s former collaborators, Levi Seacer, Jr. still refers to his old boss in the present tense. Seacer joined Prince’s post-Revolution touring band on bass not long before the ...

The lead singer of the British-born band The Police also had a major solo career, all the while plunking away on his bass guitar as he took the microphone to sing about “Fields of Gold.” 2 ...