An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...

Kate Davis talked to Art Beat about her attraction to the bass and writing her own songs before a recent performance at Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. While she makes playing ...

Ray Brown, who expanded the boundaries of the upright bass during a career in jazz spanning more than five decades, has died. He was 75. According to bassist John Clayton, a onetime student of Brown’s ...

Usually, the guy playing the upright bass in a jazz band stands in the back, smoothly plucking out the beat. But Esperanza Spalding, who is performing at Long's Park Sunday night in the Summer Concert ...