An upright or double bass provides the lowest tones in an orchestra, but also can play the rhythmic background to a jazz improvisation or the solid foundation of a bluegrass song. It can be played ...

*For more than 50 years, bass player Rustee Allen has been “all funked up,” playing and recording with some of the most legendary singers and bands in the world of rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and gospel ...

DARLINGTON COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - Student Spotlight celebrates student success inside and outside the classroom across our area. Rainn Dyce, a 6th grader from Hartsville Middle School, was nominated by ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

Pete Davidson can improvise with the best of them, but the 27-year-old actor and comedian never claimed to know his way around the upright bass. Davidson stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy ...

Although I’m generally happy as a clam, I think I’ll always regret just a tiny bit that I never dated an upright bass player. There’s something so intriguing and sexy about how upright bassists ...

Born in Kingston in 1946, Barrett enjoyed singing as a young man but did not take it up professionally. He was drawn to the playing of the late Lloyd Brevett, a founding member of the iconic ...