Few bassists can match the pedigree of Viktor Krauss, thanks to his session work with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Bill Frisell, ...

Paul McCartney plays bass on a song off the new Rolling Stones album, Foreign Tongues. Before recording together, Mick Jagger ...

World Cafe sits down with a Grammy Award-winning jazz master as part of its Sense of Place: Philadelphia series.

In 1977, the Commodores had a major hit with the song “Easy.” Written by Lionel Richie, the smooth, soft rock ballad from the group’s self-titled album shot to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ...

Incumbent leads in primary, but with less than 50% of votes must face either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman Los Angeles’s high-profile mayoral contest remained unsettled on Wednesday evening as the ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has advanced to a November runoff election in her bid for a second term, NBC News projects, but the opponent she’ll face in the one-on-one race remains unclear. Limited ...

You don’t need a full band to bring a jazz standard to life, just three key techniques. In this video, I’ll show you how to take Bluesette and arrange it for solo piano using a walking bass line, the ...

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LOS ANGELES — Forget Spencer Pratt and Donald Trump. Karen Bass is saving her harshest rebuke for a fellow Democrat. The embattled Los Angeles mayor largely refrained from attacking Pratt, one of her ...

The bass guitar is the unassuming thunder that gives rock music its indispensable power and undeniable swagger. It is the hidden genius of the rhythm section, tasked with doing far more than simply ...

It was supposed to be a shoo-in reelection for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. After becoming the first woman mayor for LA and the second Black person to hold the office, Bass was looking to serve the ...

A 1995 hit has been named as having one of the "greatest bass guitar solos of all time." Even though the bassist is often underrated, bands like Rush, Black Sabbath and The Who show that bassists are ...