Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

They’re bringing the funk to Brooklyn during your lunch hour. Legendary Sly and the Family Stone musician Larry Graham — the grand-daddy of the slap-bass technique who gave rise to a whole genre of ...

William “Billy Bass” Nelson Jr., whose bass playing helped define the revolutionary funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic, died ...

For the past few years, 10-year-old Ellen Alaverdyan has charmed millions of viewers with her phenomenal, funky bass playing and her infectious smile. Fostered by her father Hovak, also a musician, ...

There’s nobody like Bootsy, baby. The man born William Collins is the bass guitar’s main ambassador to the furthest reaches of outer and inner space. His peerless funk resume, including stints with ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass ...

The musician born William Nelson, Jr. played on the George Clinton-led Funkadelic's first three studio albums.

Bootsy Collins and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band. He'll be on hand Aug.

DETROIT (AP) - Prominent Motown studio musician and Funk Brothers member Bob Babbitt has died. He was 74. Motown Museum chief curator Lina Stephens says the bassist died Monday in Nashville, Tenn.

Joe Dart and Sterling By Music Man have teamed up for a very special signature bass guitar that shares all the look and vibe of the Vulpeck bassist’s Ernie Ball Music Man high-end four-strings and yet ...

Tower of Power's bassist Rocco Prestia has died at the age of 69. The hugely influential fingerstyle funk musician had been battling various illnesses during the last 19 years and in 2014 he underwent ...