In addition to performing on the group's first three groundbreaking albums, he reportedly gave Funkadelic its name.

Anna Butterss is an Australian-born bassist who’s been living in the US for a decade and a half, and in that time has become ...

Big Band Broadway,” a concert of Broadway's greatest hits starring Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte backed by a six-piece ...

In the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival, 500 young musicians across five orchestras are tackling difficult repertoire to participate in the concert celebration.

Bass guitarist and record producer Jah Wobble has had a lifetime’s immersion at the low end of the musical spectrum. Over four decades, his hypnotic bass riffs have powered music from punk to reggae, ...

Close to 70 years after German instrument company Höfner started selling an electric bass that looked like a violin, the company has filed for bankruptcy. The news has hit Paul McCartney, who has made ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other ...

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A full-size orchestra in the U.S. is made up of about 80 to 100 full-time musicians. Only one of those spots is given to the bass trombone, so even advancing in any professional audition is no small ...

ONE of the high points of the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival was reached during the final afternoon concert, when Henry (Red) Allen, the fifty-eight-year-old New Orleans trumpeter and singer, ...

New York: When Anna Yamazaki was starting high school in Melbourne, clips from the Essential Ellington jazz program in New York City started popping up among her YouTube suggestions. The competition ...