Six words quickly come to mind in describing up-and-coming bassist Nik West: the girl’s got it goin’ on. The Phoenix funkstress has been quietly, or maybe...
Tom Kennedy By Rick Suchow – Bass Musician Magazine March 2012 issue… It would be hard to overstate Tom Kennedy’s mastery of jazz bass, and surely...
Ethan Farmer by Andreas Farmakalidis – Bass Musician Magazine February 2012 Issue… Andreas Farmakalidis is Having, Wine and Strings, with Ethan Farmer aka ebassman… The idea...
Franck Hermanny, Featured Bassist in the January 2012 Issue of Bass Musician Magazine… Europe has always been known as the birthplace for many top-level contemporary bass guitarists...
Revisiting the Joni Mitchell years, with new revelations from Peter Erskine “The first time you play, when you’re young and you realize that you’re actually playing,...
Let me start by using a quote on Edgar Meyer that I actually referred to in one of my questions in our interview. The New Yorker...
Meet Nicole Fiorentino, who is the latest addition to the Grammy award winning band Smashing Pumpkins. Nicole is the fourth female bassist that joins this legendary...
Cheikh Ndoye broke on the scene not that long ago with his debut CD A Childs Tale. It featured a pretty amazing lineup including Russell Ferrente from...
Bassist supreme and educator Steve Bailey has been one of the mainstays in the bass community for decades, and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down....
15 minutes with Les Claypool, by Brad Houser… Late afternoon, Austin, Barton Springs pool. I’m dog-ass tired, been moving all week. Heat & Humidity! I’m going...
Damian Erskine… Climbing the ladder to greater exposure in this industry is more than ever a complicated paradigm to try to construct. That being said, I fall...
Right on the release of his fourth Solo CD, Slippin’ ‘n’ Trippin’, Victor Bailey reminds us that he’s alive and well, and a very busy man....
by Kilian Duarte – Since their inception in 1999, a unique group of 4 eccentric and creative individuals have made a strong and lasting impact on...
Harvey Brooks: Reflections On A Low-End Legacy Interview by Rick Suchow – Years from now when music historians look back at the most influential artists of...
Nathan Watts: The Groove Of Wonder The Detroit sound. However you define it, it’s a living, breathing musical entity, a phenomenon that rose out of Michigan’s...