There’s an old joke about an anthropologist who discovers a tribe in the jungle who play drums non-stop, day and night, for weeks on end. Then suddenly, one day, the drumming stops. Panic ensues. When ...

In an interview with Weld for Birmingham, Fieldy said he was "almost finished" with the album, which will be mixed by Korn's sound man Marco in November. "It’s musically a ride. It’s all instrumental, ...

In the jazz fusion era of the 1970s, a new breed of jazz superstar was born: the electric bassist. Although electric bass wasn't unheard-of in jazz before jazz-rock fusion, it quickly became an ...

Michel Alibo is one of jazz and world music's most accomplished and influential musicians. Bassist of choice, not to just some of world music's most visible stars, he's also the premier bassist for ...

Jon Krosnick doesn’t owe his three-decade marriage to Paul McCandless’s beguiling music. But when he was courting the woman who would became his wife, McCandless provided an ideal soundtrack for the ...

Named after the woman who helped hundreds of African American slaves escape from servitude in the 1850s, New York City trio Harriet Tubman embody in their music that heroic activist's irrepressible ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For bassist Orlando le Fleming, the band name Romantic Funk conjures the rhythmic complexities of Weather ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The layered woodwinds responding to this album’s opening slide of bass clarinet suggest a fair-sized ensemble ...

Anaheim, California, January 18, 2020 — SonoTone, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer of boutique, premium guitar strings, has debuted its Fusion series of electric guitar and bass strings, offering ...