Kate Davis talked to Art Beat about her attraction to the bass and writing her own songs before a recent performance at Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. While she makes playing ...

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 ...

Some 90s / 00s sounding Jazzy breaks I have been working on here and there, sampling and slicing the infamous sample pack ...

Usually, the guy playing the upright bass in a jazz band stands in the back, smoothly plucking out the beat. But Esperanza Spalding, who is performing at Long's Park Sunday night in the Summer Concert ...

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community — a lot more than just musicians, but of course they’re in ...

When Mariner High senior-to-be Nichelle Agosto and her mother, Michelle Ortega, saw the beautiful upright bass being presented to her, tears flowed. At that moment, Natalie Kondos, also a senior-to-be ...