Latest articles by Chris Jisi
“Unlike Jimi Hendrix, we never deliberately tuned down”: Listen to Jack Bruce’s bassline on Cream’s Politician
Jack Bruce wrote with Pete Brown for Cream’s third album, 1968’s Wheels of Fire
“Daft Punk was dancing in the booth while we cut it!” Listen to James Genus stretch out on Giorgio by Moroder from Random Access Memories
While Nathan East played on the chart-topping Get Lucky, James Genus added a fresh spin to Daft Punk’s Grammy-winning album
“I'd never heard somebody play the bass like that”: How Don Blackman’s 1982 classic album inspired a young Marcus Miller
The session ace-turned-solo artist recalls his earliest bass hero, and the swung-funk bassline on Don Blackman’s Heart’s Desire
“You played on Midnight Train to Georgia? You don’t need no other credits!” How Bob Babbitt bolstered a ’70s soul classic with a touch of James Jamerson
A graduate of “Motown Funk University,” Babbitt said that he took from James Jamerson, but rightly so: “he was the original”
“Like James Jamerson, Tommy Cogbill was a take-charge guy in the studio”: Inside the recording of Son of a Preacher Man
Why Dusty Springfield’s mega hit was indebted to bassist Tommy Cogbill
"If you’re overplaying, you’re under-listening": Rocco Prestia on 50 years with Tower of Power
From the archive: in our last in-depth interview with Rocco Prestia he looked back over his five decades with Tower Of Power
Sheryl Crow: the bass is my muse
The singer songwriter tells us about how bass has become central to her creative process and performances
Men in the mirror: the bassists of Michael Jackson
How Alex Al and his predecessors pumped up The King Of Pop
Jack Casady's 10 best bass performances
The highlights of the Jefferson Airplane bassist's hugely influential career
Joe Jackson bassist Graham Maby looks back at four decades of bass playing with the songwriting great
"Pushing the bass out front and center was carte blanche for me to take as many risks as I wanted"
Sean Hurley talks touring with John Mayer and how to succeed in the LA session scene
"While I mostly played my Jazz Bass when I broke in, now it’s predominantly a P-Bass world"
The history of the legendary Ampeg B-15
The full story behind the bass amp of choice for James Jamerson, Duck Dunn and Chuck Rainey
Sting: The secrets of steering a band from the low end
The superstar talks "57th & 9th", the "R" word and getting back to bass-ics
