Professional performing outside the College of Music: For both classical and jazz bass players, performance opportunities in the local musical community abound. College of Music double bassists ...

Many—including Victor Wooten, Rob Kassinger, John Clayton, Rob Fahie, Marc Johnson, John Goldsby, Mark Dresser, Reggie Workman and Stafford James—have come to the College of Music to work with our ...

Mike Jurkovic (All About Jazz) "Sandy Eldred immediately draws attention to the extreme expressiveness of his game, which is unusual for double bass players, whose role most of the time is limited to ...

A phone interview is scheduled with Rodney Whitaker, the native Detroiter hailed as one of the greatest jazz double bass artists on the planet, for a Saturday morning. Don’t want to call too early.

The bass is used in a range of other genres, such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music. History The double ...

and seven-string electric bass, in styles ranging from solo jazz chord-melody arrangements, to hard-swinging jazz double bass accompaniment, acoustic and electric funk, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, ...