Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music, but for bassist and composer Giulio Xavier Cetto, the connection between the two is indivisible. “My main goal is to support as a bass ...

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 ...

Ray Brown, who expanded the boundaries of the upright bass during a career in jazz spanning more than five decades, has died. He was 75. According to bassist John Clayton, a onetime student of Brown’s ...

“My concept changes every few months," said New York jazzer Brandi Disterheft in the May 2017 issue of Bass Player.

Worster, 78, hasn’t played his upright bass in 20 years. He’s been living at the Rowlett Health and Rehabilitation Center since 2002, hampered in movement and speech by a degenerative muscular ...