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 ...

Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

Ursa Major, from left: Christian McBride, Savannah Harris, Nicole Glover, Mike King and Ely Perlman. Christian McBride, one of the world’s foremost bass players, has led several bands over a couple ...

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 ...

You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an astonishing tale, which follows Jaco Pastorius from his early life through to stardom with Weather ...