Classical music calls for a graceful bowing across the strings, while jazz performance ... upright is a popular choice with musicians who seek the sound of an acoustic double bass but must travel ...

Sax players and jazz fans from all over pack the stage ... And he's still carrying that upright bass.

By the age of 15, Webber had switched to playing the upright bass. After graduating from high school, he began serving his musical apprenticeship on the Chicago jazz scene — working his way up to ...

From 1975 to 1980, Mr. Cranshaw was the bass player with the original ... musical phrasing and jazz sensibility that he brought to the upright bass. “A bass is a bass. That’s my attitude ...

I appreciate how today’s jazz musicians pay homage to Stanley Clarke ... It was 1980, I was 18 and trying to teach myself to play upright bass. Charles Mingus and Wilbur Ware had become ...

Long Beach City College Music Department and ASB hosted a jazz workshop opened to jazz musicians of all ages and skill levels who got to learn from featured guest musicians Nicole McCabe and Logan ...