Esperanza Spalding wins Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award… Smithsonian Magazine Editor-In-Chief Michael Caruso has announced that bassist, vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding has won a Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award...
5 Dollar Music Business Website Helps DIY Musicians Market, Promote And Sell Their Music… The website MusicBusinessMarketplace.com is proud to launch the first micro job site dedicated exclusively to...
Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Klein… Hal Leonard Books, the musician’s best source of books on the music business, audio technology, instrument history, and more, is...
RICK’S PICKS: Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Hip-O-Select / Motown) / Bassists: Wilton Felder, Ron Brown, others The Album: Forty years...
Bass String Favorites – Bass Musician Magazine Writers and Readers Share Their Top Choices… When we reached out to Bass Musician Magazine staff, as well as our...
The Best in Double Bass Strings by Maureen Pandos… Wow, bass strings… I could talk to you about them until I’m blue in the face. There are...
This demo is featuring the GHS Pressurewound Flats, on my Warwick Streamer LX Broadneck. These are a great string that have the best attributes of rounds and...
Kala U-Bass Day at Musicians Institute with Stu Hamm, Abraham Laboriel, and Bakithi Kumalo…
Bass players… find a drummer and stop working on that book by yourself in your bedroom! The first thing which instantly grabs you about Concept: Drums and...
Tales from the Pit: Blyss Gould and West Side Story by Jonathan Moody… I have always held Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece, West Side Story, on a pedestal. It was...
Study Without Light by Jimi Durso… Living in the northeast, I was one of the people who didn’t have electricity for a bit after hurricane Sandy. Though...
Bass Lines with Jaime Vazquez – Grooving with Led Boots… Hello BMM Readers! Thank YOU for a GREAT YEAR! We’re here for YOU! We’re close to...
Jazz Improvisation with Andrea Fascetti: Bebop Part 8, Your Voice! HI MY “BASS” FRIENDS! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT MY LAST LESSON,...
Reel Ear Personal Ear Trainer… What is music? There is obviously no one right answer to such a question. Some might spew out a rigid Webster’s definition...
The Sorcerer – A Bass Transcription by Alex Wilkerson… This transcription comes from a Herbie Hancock composition entitled “The Sorcerer”. It can be found on Herbie’s album:...
