Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

They’re bringing the funk to Brooklyn during your lunch hour. Legendary Sly and the Family Stone musician Larry Graham — the grand-daddy of the slap-bass technique who gave rise to a whole genre of ...

For the past few years, 10-year-old Ellen Alaverdyan has charmed millions of viewers with her phenomenal, funky bass playing and her infectious smile. Fostered by her father Hovak, also a musician, ...

Young shakes hands with a student at Starting Gate before returning home to Sacramento. The bass player for 'Con Funk Shun' visited the Vallejo school Friday morning. (Rich Freedman--Times-Herald) ...

Bootsy Collins and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He'll be on hand Aug.

Joe Dart and Sterling By Music Man have teamed up for a very special signature bass guitar that shares all the look and vibe of the Vulpeck bassist’s Ernie Ball Music Man high-end four-strings and yet ...

Since Chicago footwork producer and Teklife member DJ Earl dropped his breakthrough 2016 debut, Open Your Eyes, he’s traveled far outside the city and branched out into different sounds. In 2017, Earl ...