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 ...

Traditional J-Bass styling. Excellent build. Enhanced 'big J' tones. Best electric guitars 2026: Our pick of guitars to suit all budgets Best acoustic guitars 2026: Super steel string acoustics for ...

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

Before the 1930s, bass players used to play two notes in every bar, on the first and third beats, such as in a ragtime piece. But then they started to fill the gaps between each note, creating a ...