Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, and Andrew Hill and laid the musical foundation for Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, has died at the age of ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bassist and composer Linda May Han Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, quickly emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine and Primus are not the bands a Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, composer and band leader usually cites as key early influences. But there is nothing ...

Bill Lee, a jazz bassist who recorded with Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan and was the father of filmmaker Spike Lee, died Wednesday. He was 94. Bill Lee died at his home in Brooklyn, ...

One night Seattle jazz guitarist Brian Nova and bassist Peter Vinikow were driving to a gig in Eastern Washington when Nova dozed off behind the wheel. He ran over some of those bumps lining the lanes ...

Art Davis, a virtuoso bassist who excelled in classical music and jazz, and who became a clinical psychologist later in life, died July 29 of a heart attack at his home in Long Beach, Calif. He was 73 ...