E.E. Bradman

Lewis landed the bass chair with Snoop Dogg in 2007. Shortly after he moved to L.A. for good

Rex Brown looks back on the sonic arms race inside Pantera – and the Ampeg rig that tipped the balance in his favor

Kumalo had been helping out a local mechanic when he was invited to Ovation Studios in downtown Johannesburg

Kumalo made a radical change in his bass technique during a tour of South Africa – before he ever played a note with Paul Simon

With help from producer Tony Visconti, one of the brightest stars of 21st century bass found a brand-new source of inspiration

The bass powerhouse behind Washington DC’s Bad Brains pioneered a style that changed the history of punk

The session ace-turned producer began working with Mitchell in 1981, soon after her last album with the “world’s greatest bass player”

Ready to go pro? There’s no one more qualified than American Idol judge and all-around music-biz insider Randy Jackson

Prince, a masterful bassist in his own right, employed a series of phenomenal bass players. Let's met the team...

How the jazz great came across The One

"No band in the world wanted to follow American Idiot, and only one band could. It was our job to either phone it in or to really go for it"

The six-string maverick on his tricked-out rig, working with Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, and how he made Drunk with Flying Lotus