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OF All The Decisions We Make As Bassists, string selection is perhaps the most personal. Of course it’s a matter of tone—some sound brighter, others project a stronger fundamental— but the connection we make to our strings is ...

WE ALL WISH WE COULD PUT OURSELVES IN JOHN Paul Jones’s shoes. We can’t, but let’s nonetheless pause to ponder the man’s podiatric power. After all, though he played a mean bass guitar with Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones was every bit ...

FOR FOUR DECADES, ROCCO PRESTIA HAS REMAINED AN ORIGINAL. From his founding perch as Tower Of Power’s propulsive bassist, Rocco has helped innovate fingerstyle funk and redefine the concept of groove on such pocket anthems as “What ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of jazz’s most influential recordings, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, here’s a look at how Paul Chambers approached the bass line on “So What.” Next month we’ll go deeper, with a comprehensive look ...