Our bass students study in depth the art of solo, orchestral and chamber music double bass performance. During their time at the College of Music, students focus on rich, resonant and lyrical tone ...

One of the oldest double basses in the world has a rich musical history filled with ghost stories, international fame, an airplane accident and most recently, a six-week visit to BYU. Its previous ...

Acclaimed double bassist Gary Karr is 77 years old, but his nearly life-long love affair with the musical instrument is as strong as ever. “I think I’m sexually attracted to it,” Karr said during a ...

Extending an attenuated line of how-to-hide-the-corpse farces from "Arsenic & Old Lace" through "Very Bad Things," the German "3 Chinamen With a Double Bass" throws some very familiar soil in the air ...

It’s no secret that vocalists tend to take center stage—not only on the actual stage but basically everywhere else too. So we’re going to give the frontman a break for once and focus on the musician ...

George Speed of the TSO shows us how the double bass works and its role in a performance. Violetta "Vi" Vibrato meets George Speed who plays the double bass for Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. Vi ...

Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra features something unusual Monday in the spotlight: the double bass. In this case, it’s played by Mercer University Concerto Competition 2024 student winner Eion Lyons.

ATLANTA — When Jane Little first saw the double bass in her teens, she was horrified. "I thought now why would any girl want to play that big thing," she said. But the double bass is the instrument ...

The Seattle Chamber Music Festival, which opens its 23rd season Monday night at Lakeside School, may be based in Seattle, but the three dozen or so musicians who appear there every summer are rarely ...

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline ...