Articles by: Bass Player Staff

Everything Everything's Jeremy Pritchard: "I really enjoy the limitations of the bass. It’s forced me to be creative with the basic building blocks of music"

By Bass Player Staff

Pritchard talks pedalboards, bass heroes and why he's happy to look "a bit silly" with a short-scale Fender Mustang

Vote for your favorite low-end master of all-time in Bass Player's new poll

Bass Player magazine is holding the ultimate bassist poll. Vote to help us find the greatest bass player of all time

By Bass Player Staff

Speak your mind as we set out to honor the world's greatest low-end maestros

Fernando Saunders on Lou Reed, playing the White House and hitting Harlem jazz clubs with the Czech political elite

By Bass Player Staff

Ahead of the release of his upcoming album We Are People, the prolific bass session legend and solo artist shares a slew of stories from his remarkable career

Adeline: “For me, bass is about finding a good groove that people may not even notice – a good groove that I want to keep playing forever“

By Bass Player Staff

The bassist and producer discusses the low notes behind her phenomenal creativity

Issy Ferris: “Playing bass gives me a power and character on stage that I hadn’t experienced before, and has made me a better performer and writer“

By Bass Player Staff

Ferris & Sylvester kick out a full-band sound with just two members. Here, bassist Ferris explains how she does it

John Goldsby: “It’s expected nowadays that you know how to play Brazilian music, or funk, or hip-hop, or metal. A lot of younger bass players can do it all“

By Bass Player Staff

Goldsby is back with three EPs from his eponymous trio, a much-needed perspective on the future of bass, and a definitive answer to the question, ‘Is jazz dead?’

Shez Raja: “The harmony in Indian music is super-simple – where it gets mind-bogglingly, face-meltingly interesting is the rhythm and the melody“

By Bass Player Staff

The mighty Indojazzfunk bassist returns with his most ambitious album yet, Tales From the Punjab. We meet the maestro...

Hatebreed‘s Chris Beattie: ”No matter what you do in life, but especially as a bass player, you’ve got to keep learning”

By Bass Player Staff

Beattie checks in to talk about his journey on bass, the melodicism underpinning Hatebreed's pit-starting sound, and explains why he's loving the bass after some time off

Trapped in Purgatory's Jon Hoare: “I don’t go for expensive gear. If I can make it from the car to the rehearsal room in one trip, then it’s mission accomplished”

By Bass Player Staff

The bassist talks gear, influences, high school bands and Trapped in Purgatory's thrashy debut album, Damned Nation

Lee Rocker: ”Elvis was like Batman or Superman when I was a little kid – even before I was aware of his music. It’s so raw”

By Bass Player Staff

The Stray Cats’ rockabilly legend talks writing an album on an Airstream trailer, the energy of the old stuff and why there are still plenty of note choices to discover after all these years

Alter Bridge‘s Brian Marshall: “Bass is a different skill set and a different mindset. I think we’re just born that way“

By Bass Player Staff

Marshall checks in to share some advice for bass players and reminds us that “we're unicorns“

Session great Yolanda Charles on her best (and worst) bass albums

By Bass Player Staff

Charles reflects on playing with BB King, Paul Weller, Squeeze and P-Funk legend Bernie Worrell

Starr Cullars: "Prince used to come out to P-Funk shows – he was tripping that I was playing with them"

By Bass Player Staff

The former Parliament-Funkadelic bassist and solo artist recalls her early career, and a legendary encounter with Prince

Brian Bromberg: “Hendrix's presence as an artist was overwhelming, and that’s what makes his music so special“

By Bass Player Staff

The legendary jazz bassist discusses the challenge of adapting Jimi Hendrix for bass, and recalls his greatest collaborations

Frank Bello of Anthrax performs at Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre on May 27, 2018 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Anthrax's Frank Bello announces autobiography

By Bass Player Staff

Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax features a foreword by Kiss's Gene Simmons

Armored Saint's Joey Vera: ”I heard Kiss’s Alive! and that was about it for me. I just wanted to play an instrument”

By Bass Player Staff

The Californian metal stalwarts' bassist talks influences, playing styles, and how rescuing a P-Bass from under John Bush's bed got him started

Eva Kess: "The sound of bass comes from the left hand. The right hand is important as well, but it’s how you press the strings that forms the tone"

By Bass Player Staff

Upright bassist Kess brings a wide range of influences into her music. We hear how a chance meeting launched her bass journey

Epiphone Embassy review

By Bass Player Staff

Another retro bass comes into our sights – but does this affordable model offer more than a chic peek in the rear-view mirror?

Paul Chambers: the double bass great's best (and worst) albums

By Bass Player Staff

Highlights from the jazz legend's catalog ranked and rated – Kind of Blue is number one, but what else makes the cut?

The bass guitar summit: Dave Swift meets Juan ‘Snow Owl’ Garcia-Herreros

By Bass Player Staff

Jools Holland's in-house bassist Swift and the Grammy-nominated Snow Owl talk career paths, Jaco and gear

Cat Popper: “Writing is complicated for me, because voices in my head tell me I should sound more like someone else”

By Bass Player Staff

Having earned her stripes playing bass with a laundry list of heavy hitters, Popper goes solo with new single, Maybe It's All Right

Bryan Beller on the search for the perfect bass and thinking visually when songwriting

By Bass Player Staff

The Aristocrats and Joe Satriani bass phenom unpacks his epic pedalboard, and explains the importance of video in music today

Meet Bassist of the Year 2020, Danny Sapko

By Bass Player Staff

Technically adventurous, musically astute and your favorite bassist of 2020, Sapko walks through his bass approach

Fusion legend Mark Egan talks creative chemistry, custom basses and the spirit of improvisation on new album Electric Blue

By Bass Player Staff

With Danny Gottlieb, Egan has crafted another album of musical surprises and virtuoso performances

Jimmy Haslip: “I know I don’t play the instrument correctly! I've just tried to find my own way of expressing myself“

By Bass Player Staff

He got lessons from Jaco Pastorius and toured with Allan Holdsworth – now Haslip continues to push the frontiers of bass guitar with album reissues, sessions and a playing style like no other