When John Edwards plays his double bass, he is extraordinarily engaging. He plucks, tweaks, bows, hits and hums aloud. So engrossed is he that it is difficult to look away. One memorable gig, I ...

The double bass. Everyone knows the double bass—it goes "boom, boom, boom." Sometimes, to paraphrase Sophia Loren, it goes "boom, boody, boom." In the hands of a virtuoso it does so much more than ...

Be it the musical expression of Dave Holland the melodic phrasing of Scott LaFaro the inventiveness of Charles Mingus or the flawless technique and artistry of Ray Brown in jazz as in most music 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 ...

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Twenty-year old Scottish double bassist Ewan Hastie has won BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022. The announcement was made during the broadcast of the Competition's Final on BBC Four on Sunday 20 November at ...

Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

Jazz pianist Shai Maestro presents his album The Guesthouse to festival-goers at Jazz sous les Pommiers. An expressive ...

Streaming platforms for Walking the Changes Legends of Double Bass in Jazz haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

After a couple of jaunts overseas in the past two weeks, I’m now firmly back in Scotland, digging in and preparing myself for the summer madness that comes with the arts brief. While I was away, I was ...