The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that ...

Once again, here are my personal picks for the year’s best in abattoir jazz, diaristic field recordings, audio Rothkos, ambient epics, electroacoustic cinema, marathon improv, and backroom electronica ...

Musician, songwriter, and producer Dominique Sanders got his start in Kansas City as a child interested in the cello. He soon graduated to upright bass, later studied music for two years at the ...

New Orleans style - brought the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to a magnificent performance at the Payne & Mencias Palladium at the Allied Solutions ...

Inside: Jazz events in Honolulu, a timeless ballet on Kauaʻi, celebrating childrenʻs discovery, and a highlight of choral ...

A joy of Christmas is dressing up in festive attire, gathering a group of people you enjoy, and heading off to a holiday ...

So… what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, ...

Tired of pickups that can’t capture the subtlety of bowing or the punch of plucking, I set out to create something better. Follow my journey designing, building, and testing a custom upright bass ...

You may not know the names Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, but you definitely recognize their distinct style at Christmastime, as the duo created some of the famous stop-motion Christmas specials ...

Greater Dayton Premier Management’s efforts to tear down and replace deteriorating and outdated public housing units in the DeSoto Bass Courts in West Dayton reached a major milestone with the ...

One of Portland’s landmark breweries is calling it quits. Upright Brewing, long known as one of Portland’s highest-quality craft beer purveyors, announced on social media Sept. 30 that it would cease ...

The quintessential stationary bike is the upright. Unlike indoor cycling bikes popularized by brands such as Spinning and Peloton, which are more geared toward high-intensity workouts that mimic road ...