Then, in typical risk-taking fashion, he proceeded to play it that night at CBGB’s – without practicing beforehand. “There ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música ...

Forget Taylor Swift, U2 or The Rolling Stones. When members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra leave home for the Last Night of ...

There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the ...

Herbie Flowers — who performed with David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and created the iconic bassline for Lou Reed’s 'Walk on the ...

Carnegie Hall announced the American Composers Orchestra will perform The New Virtuoso: Borders on October 30, featuring ...

Christian McBride, the Grammy-winning bassist, was reluctant to move out of New York, but his wife, Melissa Walker, a jazz ...

The tuba was Flowers’ first instrument - it wasn’t until later that he took up at first the double bass and then the electric ...

Double Basses - Any other bass-clef C instrument (bassoons, cellos and the like) playing from this part will be doubling it an octave higher; this will do no harm at all, and often it would be ...

His family confirmed his death on Facebook, with tributes pouring in immediately, praising his ’incredible musicianship’ ...