The 70-year-old jazz guitarist stunned the audience with streams of improvisation, loop pedal wizardry and his 42-string ...

Robert Trujillo has called grunge guitar legend Jerry Cantrell one of his favorite bass players. You read that right — bass ...

Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

A slash chord such as A/B features a triad over a non-root bass note. In this case, an A major with a B in the bass (check ...

Krieger explains how the song changed from the time they played it in clubs until it became a chart-topping hit single ...

Phil Lesh, who has died aged 84, was the Grateful Dead’s bass guitarist throughout their 30-year lifespan; his intensely ...

Drummer Mickey Hart called him the group's intellectual who brought a classical composer's mind-set and skills to a five-chord rock ... to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style ...

Los Angeles — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as ... skills to a five-chord rock ‘n’ roll ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding ... and skills to a five-chord rock 'n' roll band.

Drummer Mickey Hart called him the group's intellectual who brought a classical composer's mindset and skills to a five-chord rock ‘n’ roll band. Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play bass in ...