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Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Bassist Christian McBride plays the Mesa Arts Center on Thursday — he’s performing with fellow bassist Edgar Meyer. Their show will blend jazz, classical and bluegrass.

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...

Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke sits at the center of the room, six young musicians focused on him as they practice at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center on a recent afternoon. “So the ...

Emanating from a musical hotbed in Pittsburgh; his maternal grandmother performed in minstrel shows, and taught piano; she had graduated cum laude; taught English to Italian immigrants, and taught ...

Nathan began playing music at the age of five through the Suzuki cello program. Through grade school and middle school he also began to play the euphonium, tuba, and the string bass. Nathan eventually ...

It’s the bass David Hood played on essential tracks like Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There” and Etta James’ “Tell Mama.” He hasn't seen it since 1973. Known for his Muscle Shoals' Swampers session ...

Bob Cranshaw, a versatile jazz bassist best known for his association with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, whom he accompanied on virtually every concert and album since 1962, died Nov. 2 at his home in ...

You were born in Brooklyn and grew up in Jamaica, Queens. What’s the nearest subway stop to where you were raised? The nearest subway is 169 th Street. Well, now it’s called Parsons Boulevard. It’s ...