Tate’s bass voice interlaced with the locomotive’s cries as he read: ‘“Count One. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it contains thousands of lakes, filled with fish of all kinds—walleye, for one thing, catfish, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, perch, and pike. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He catches flounder and sea bass and bluefish. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Benny could’ve learned how to play the bass five times by now.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe then I’d pick up a new instrument, guitar or bass, or even drums. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head to the corner and plug in my bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But I liked it best when he sang, in his deep bass voice, some of the silly nonsense songs he and Mother used to make up when they were children. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa Byrd had said, “This is Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard, Big Mike on bass, and Hector Santos on percussion.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The notes were so deep and strong it felt like we were sitting inside a giant bass fiddle. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The newly decorated restaurant, Hoo's On First, the eatery of athletes, will hold its grand reopening on Sunday. Specialty of the day: fruited sea bass on purple waves." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not interrupt her until late in the afternoon, when he could no longer bear the echo of the bass drum that was tormenting his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The conductor lifts his baton, and I'm invigorated hearing the familiar passages: the drone of the double bass as the heartrending introduction begins, the strings peeling away layers like birch bark. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They might call a note "middle C" or "second line G" or "the F sharp in the bass clef." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We hear the heavy bass from Dray’s car outside, and Donna changes her outfit for the twentieth time. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bass pounds the floor like an earthquake, and B.I.G.’s voice seems to fill up the entire gym. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then the piano keys trilled and the guitar and bass and drums pounced on the downbeat and I forgot all about Vonetta, the record needle, and getting in trouble. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If I do, I’ll mess up the bass line and ruin whatever is about to happen—because something is definitely about to happen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, find out and tell me when we talk next week. Think of it as homework, Sparrow. You’ve got to practice, just like for bass. Do you like the bass?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a bass laugh that sounded vaguely familiar and a voice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best time to fish for striped bass is around sunrise. template. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bass guitar’s slow notes intertwined with a saxophone’s glee, creating a jazz-funk, strut-like rhythm, soon joined by trumpets and drums. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can hear noises from the street below: a police siren, young girls shouting and laughing, bass booming from a passing car. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind me in the pond I heard a big fish, a bass, jump and fall back into the water with a thump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can’t take my eyes off the hands of the bass players. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I fish for the black bass of the pond,” Cico said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she landed on the rhythm and bass of hip-hop, Genie livened up and started nodding his head. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He plays “Teenage Riot” through a few times, and we hum along with the bass line, trying to get it in our heads. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Music was reverberating against the walls and ceilings, the bass pulsing in my eardrums. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Manny turns it up so loud, the whole car shakes from the bass. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could feel it again—that weird energy, like an electric bass line trying to get out of my skin. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a little bass in his voice, a little hood, a little swag, not like these Darcy boys. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In another corner are a bass guitar and a keyboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In Cuban son it is not just the melody, whether played on a trumpet or sung, that pushes ahead, but also the bass line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The bass player was closest, so he went trotting over and opened the door all the way. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They figured once she got wrapped up in the pageant work, she’d forget all about the bass and the band and her journalistic aspirations. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Each day I found some time to walk to the pond where people went to catch sun perch and striped bass. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clicks some stuff on one of the computers and a bass heavy up-tempo beat blasts through the speakers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.29: The note following the slash is the bass note of the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Banging his knee against the golden lard bucket he used for school lunch, he contrived a good bass drum, while his tongue fluttered sharply against his teeth to fill in snare drums and occasional trumpets. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his sunglasses, playing air bass, totally on another planet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the fact that the bass jumps ahead of the beat is what gives son such a powerful dance feel: it almost pushes your feet to move. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I won’t get to sit in a room and play bass until my hands hurt. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

None of us is talking; we’re all just trying on a bass, holding it, strumming it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The shapes moved and she saw that it was a school of large white bass, each one as big as she was. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, there is more smoke, more alcohol, and the conga drum voices blend with the heavy bass music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I started humming the bass line of “Seven Nation Army.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then he brings a punishing bass down on our heads. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The deep bass of an expensive car-stereo system approaches from behind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the harbor, striped bass are feeding on baitfish in the shallows, making a noise my dad used to call “fish grenades.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The guys that play the blues with Cool Papa. The guys who’re usually here. Jack Rabbit Jones on keyboard. Big Mike on bass. Hector Santos on whatever he can hit. The Bluesmen.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

One of them, a great, tall, gray-haired woman with a booming bass voice, named Mrs. Savage, had gone to Vassar. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With luck I might catch a bass or two to have for dinner with the salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Put on a tuxedo and dance the waltz with some pimply faced girl whose major goal in life is to master the bass trombone? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Included among these fish were sunfish and bass, which of course are favorites of anglers and commonly find their way to the dinner table. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As we hit the stairs, we can feel the bass under our feet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A small jazz combo with a bass, a piano, and a drum set providing the "rhythm" background for a trumpet improvising a solo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Change the bass notes of the chords to see how that changes the sound of the progression to your ears. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The peculiar-looking young man had said nothing, but now he started to hum to himself, a deep, melodic, bass humming that made the interior of the car vibrate and rattle and buzz. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A moment later, he peeked his head back in and, brilliantly mimicking the Colonel’s bossy bass voice, said, “Christ, you cornin’ or what?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The music gets louder, and I can feel the bass thumping throughout my body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Voices and instruments with higher ranges usually learn to read treble clef, while voices and instruments with lower ranges usually learn to read bass clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The bass reaches my insides, but it’s not enough to shake the thought of my mother from my mind. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nico opens up a bass synthesizer and uses the computer keys to lay down a bass line. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.10: These scores show the same notes written in treble and in bass clef. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One of Kelly’s dad onstage playing his bass. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

"We're in luck!" said Primus, his bass voice booming like thunder. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pass on the soup and salad, and order Chilean sea bass. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“What do you say, Papa?” said Angeline in a deep bass, nodding the pillow like a ventriloquist manipulating her dummy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And then she’s joined by the other instruments—Morgan on the keyboard and Anna on the bass. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Inside, I could hear a bass beat thumping loud enough to rattle the windowsills. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

After the first two or three hours she figured out some sets of chords in the bass that would fit in with the main tune her right hand was playing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “Let’s go catch us some bass.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pursued by killer whales, which prey upon them when seals are not to be found, the bass had tried to escape by swimming toward shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bass player was locked in there also, so every walking quarter note he played was pulsing in exact time with Brian’s left foot hi-hat clicks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dee is dancing in place to imaginary music, making a bass sound deep in her throat. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The low howvi howi/i that sounded like a string bass imitating a bassoon meant something the dogs understood and executed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there is treatment,” I said, my voice picking up bass. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Others changed their character with the addition of an unexpected bass note beneath them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I caught and released some largemouth bass and a batch of bluegills in the pond shortly after it was built. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening in 1958, a handsome thirty-three-year-old army captain with a ready smile and a rich bass voice ambled into practice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Thus the instrumentarium was born—the complete set of which includes bass bars, bass, alto/tenor, and soprano metallophones, xylophones and alto and soprano glockenspiels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As the car slid into the next stall, the bass from the subwoofers vibrated so much, it shook the pavement. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a deep bass, all alone with a smooth, beautiful violin above it and something that sounds like chimes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their instruments include an accordion, a bass guitar, a tuba, and bongo drums. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds harder than the bass in the song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her ankles flopped against the hardwood, and she bent her arms into a pillow under her head and slept, the bass from the music drumming into her bones through the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ludsbury’s voice was bass, British, and his Adam’s apple seemed to move as much as his mouth when he spoke. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example a bass trombone4l has a lower range than a tenor trombone, and an alto saxophone42 sounds higher than a tenor saxophone. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Merchant ships plied to and fro on the blue oceans, and fishermen hauled in brimming nets of cod and tunny, bass and mullet; the forests ran with game, and no children went hungry. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How about Grizzly Bears Don’t Fly Airplanes for the lines of the bass clef, or Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips or Elephants Get Big Dirty Feet for the lines of the treble clef? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They told her if she placed in Miss New Hampshire, they’d buy her a bass for her all-girl punk band, Drink My Sweat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And the newly defined role of the bass line altered how composers viewed the shape of harmony for hundreds of years, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She slotted it into the side of one of the bass, but she went too deep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turns on the radio and I brace myself for that heavy bass music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The deep bass tones rolled around under the tall sycamores, tore their way out of the thick timber, traveled out over the fields, and slammed up against the foothills. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mouths the lyrics too, and holds his head as if the bass has taken over him. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was one of his favorite bands, but they used a little too much bass and shrieking for my tastes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I found the angriest songs on my playlist, the ones with loud guitars and booming bass. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They’re like the needle; the bass is more like the thread. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I let my sticks take the lead, from the bass to the snare and again and again. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Not fatigued by his radicalisation of both musical texture and technique, Corelli added another flourish to his work: a musical shorthand called figured bass, or thorough bass, inherited from Monteverdi and universally adopted after him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"What's that?" the principal asked with some extra bass in his voice. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I turned in time to see Cico hurl his spear at the monstrous black bass that had broken the surface of the waters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black bass rising in flat black water: ah. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their subdued murmuring, coming from lower down, formed a kind of bass accompaniment to the conversations crossing above their heads. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

My sister Lillian was in high school and singing with a hillbilly band called The Sierra Stars—jeans, cowboy hats, two guitars, and a tub bass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the song changes to something with a heavy thumping bass. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He makes a rhythmic gesture with his hands, in time with the thumping bass from the faraway rock song. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For example, according to a 2008 study, girls are more likely to sing, while boys are more likely to play instruments such as bass guitar, trombone, and percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Annabeth spoke in a voice that wasn’t hers—the words as deep as a bass guitar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And headed back toward the bass stands, eating the jelly beans as I went, so lost in thought that I almost tripped over Mouse, who lay sunning herself on the path. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Could she be a troll with more bass in her voice than little Brit over there? Yes.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In spite of everything, dinner was festive, with the bass, the fresh-cooked greens, and the salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes, and when she does, Annabelle hears the thump, thump, thump of the bass from the car she saw in that driveway today. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He says I would make a good bass player. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scrawny guy wearing a flannel shirt over his sweatpants counts my cash and pushes the bass at me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Runs of spawning Atlantic salmon, short- nose sturgeon, striped bass, and American shad annually filled the harbor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lifted the kitten from the straw and tucked it into the bib of his overalls, where it looked at home and produced a rumbling bass purr remarkable for something its size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’m going to stock it with bass and bluegills.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was high and light, a little girl’s voice struggling to be heard over the thud of the bass. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I busy myself putting away the bass and unplugging the amp. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was struck by the different, distinctive coughs—bass, baritone, and tenor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman’s smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Kaira could tell, all bass players always wore sunglasses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had me seven good bass and three big perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and spoke with a deep bass rumble as he stalked forward, his right hand raised and thrusting an imaginary sword. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m lost in the bass line, in the lyrics, in my sneakers beating against the stall door and not caring who hears. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bass line comes in right away; it makes my shoulders go up and down even though I thought I was too tired to move. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looks at her like a bass just swam out of her mouth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The other three guys in the band were Ennio, who plays the drums and is considered to be this prodigy drummer, Harry on lead guitar, and Elijah on bass guitar. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I handed over the poster I’d spent the most time on, a big bass with red lips, eyelashes, and a crown covered in glitter and stick-on jewels. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In order to emulate a whole band - bass, accompanying chords and tune - the solo pianist had to leap about the keys frantically, resulting in a rather virtuoso left-hand motion from bass to chord and back. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of the voice, a deep bass that set her breastbone humming. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.11: Middle C is above the bass clef and below the treble clef; so together these two clefs cover much of the range of most voices and instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dressed again in our soggy things, we walked bowlegged down to the bass stands and across toward our cottage. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing that helps is my bass. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bass is booming, and the whole car is vibrating. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

While each instrument is limited in range to fewer than two octaves, all together, from bass bars to soprano glockenspiel, the ensemble covers six octaves, creating an entire orchestra! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Someone with leprosy,” she said, stomping down the lane toward the bass stands and, beyond them, Osh, waiting for our return. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Maggie called from atop a bass stand across from our island while I picked mussels off the rocks below. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious, boy,” she said with some bass in her voice. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The bass is making the car shake and buries anything you’re thinking about except the beat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But I can feel it like a bass line, somehow steady and urgent at once. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The music was loud, but those words cut through the throbbing bass. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

—Yeah, ’cause it has a live bass and I can turn it up loud and jam. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started humming the bass line and playing air guitar as we waited for the elevator. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I had promised to hold the bass line for some of the brothers reading at this week’s Open Mike. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly she had written just little tunes—songs without any words and without even any bass notes to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The windows still blinked with the blue-red flash of the dance, and the low bass thumped loud enough to drum out into the night air. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant to go after some bass today,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I crack up as she plays another few riffs—trilling treble to rumbling bass. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I looked up in the middle of a Led Zeppelin drum solo, and my dad was sitting on the beat-up old couch about 8 feet in front of my bass drum. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have extra French horn players, but they can't read bass clef C parts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was hiding behind a bass drum in the percussion section. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He hits play, and a thumping bass with some piano melodies on top fills the room. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were blue and flat- head catfish, bullheads, four species of sunfish, shiners, dace, stone rollers, largemouth bass, carp, mullet, suckers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not their bodies inching closer that make me nervous, it’s their words that sound just like the heavy bass music—hard and fast like too-loud conga drums. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He sings and plays bass and harmonica for the Manichaean Blues Band, a group he started back in San Antonio, where he’s from. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

While musicians and instrument-makers were finding ways of expanding the expressive range of what they could play, historical destiny was going to hand the bass line an unexpected boost. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ivy sank onto the other bed, facing her dad, her heart a bass drum in her chest. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Fried sand bass go good with everything, I promise.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Onto the beach I scrambled, gaining speed as I ran past the bass stands and up the lane. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The evil mouth of the black bass was open and red. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From outside, the baby hears language and music, mostly low sound waves from bass instruments and loud noises. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of the chord name will be a slash followed by a note name, for example C/E. The note following the slash should be the bass note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The bass has been pumping since noon, and with that kind of noise, there's no reading, thinking, or dreamily staring out the window for me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Roy’s breath came in rapid bursts and his heart pounded like a bass drum. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bass pulses in my bones and I wish I could plug my ears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bass and treble clefs were also once moveable, but it is now very rare to see them anywhere but in their standard positions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Right as we cross the street, a gray BMW pulls up beside us, bass thumping inside like the car has a heartbeat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, and the bass courses through my spine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up—sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt much better as I walked back along the path toward the bass stands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Amari knew the perfect modulation of that voice, the deep bass edged with gold. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the instrument sheet, I write one word: bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His deep bass voice threatened to drown everyone else out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The interweaving, flowing lines of equal voices began to make way for a new and fashionable triumvirate in music: tune, accompanying chords, and supporting bass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The bass thumping down the block was impossible to shut out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Nice little bass. Not bad for the first try,” Wash said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It beats right through that, and stomps through the rest of the day until bass class. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What has all this to do with bass lines in music? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We ate all of the bass and all of the greens and salad, though there was enough for four. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His poor taste in music reached me before he did; the car vibrated from the bass, and Marcus sang loud and proud. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was actually Duncan, the bass player, who finally called the Berkeley Auditorium and informed them that there’d be no concert. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Melissa Dumas and Chicken Dee, who plays bass, were making out on the porch, and she still had the roller skates on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to learn how to play bass.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Miss Love had started playing “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” with a strong marching beat and lots of walking bass. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing his too-large electric guitar, playing as loud and fast as he can while the drums and bass jar the flimsy walls and low particle board ceiling of the tiny church. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He finishes out his tune with a low, guttural hum just as the deep, pounding bass of a revved car engine overrides his voice. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He put an iron pan on the stove, added butter and spring onions, and, after a bit, tossed in the bass cheeks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The bass beat from the main hall thundered in the stairwell, echoing off the walls and in my head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In this ten-note example from Corelli, all the keyboard player has in front of him or her is the bass line notes, borrowed from the cello player, and those extra numbers above it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So when I slipped my headphones over my ears, I turned the music up until bass strings thumped, cymbals hissed, and guitar strings squealed like they were having a conversation with each other. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I was hanging out in his room, like I often did, listening to him play bass. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I think I need to take some of that bass out though.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But this voice was deeper and lower, like a bass guitar. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s important because the organ, with its lower, deeper pedal notes, led the way in the innovation of a bass line in music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Cruising the edge of King territory, pumping the volume with the bass on full, looking for Stingers who might be stepping out of line. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re sounding absolutely awesome. Killer bass, Elijah. But everyone’s got to be able to play the song for the spring concert, right? These two dudes need a chance to learn the song, too.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And with the bass thumping, no one heard him walking across the room. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She picked up a padded stick and struck a nearby bass drum six times. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

With her heart thudding like bass drums in her ears, she looked around. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my headphones on and start playing “Q.U.E.E.N.” over and over until I can hear the bass and then more until I can hum it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And even though I couldn’t hear it, I could feel the bass pumping inside of me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Over his head on the wall above the desk was a widemouthed bass, stuffed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But with the bass pumping throughout the house, no one heard me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“We need to add some bass, and then we can mix and master it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Impatiently she clicks the button for a station change, comes up with an aging bass baritone, his cheeks like emptied udders. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passes me my makeshift tuxedo, and before I know it, Ren is passing me the bass with one hand, and pushing me onstage with the other. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Contra — Means lower: for example a contrabassoon sounds lower than a regular bassoon43 , and a contrabass clarinet is even lower than a bass clarinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Discords in the bass, and fire in Miss Love’s eyes, just like Grandpa’s. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But the raucous swallows, the woman’s droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are closed and her back is to us, the same way I play the bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the territorial line between where the right hand and the left hand traveled, between the treble and the bass clefs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There are six basses, one for each of us. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could feel the bass of a Flush song through the soles of her feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

So Warren takes the prize for overall swag—handsome with a little edge, some rhythm to his walk, bass in his voice, and he laughs at his own jokes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Alice had brewed some tea with wild peppermint leaves, and I contributed two nice bass. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked and cast and walked and did everything we knew to interest bass or pike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt’s voice, to his horror, boomed out like a bass drum. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a deep bass drops, the ground glows in a symphony of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only the bass fiddles rested as the entire orchestra washed the forest in color. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Have no feat on that count, Lady Stark," the Greatjon told her in his bass rumble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bass from his stereo hits my chest as he cruises away. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the bass of a Flush song through the soles of her feet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We all turn on our amps and set to tuning our basses like Ty showed us the first day. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We ate the rest of the white bass that night and there was much rejoicing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tenors are higher than basses,” she says, “which is easy to remember because basses are in the basement.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mouse turned suddenly, staring toward Cuttyhunk, and there came Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, hurrying down the path to the bass stands and waving at us from across the shallow divide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Henry figures that cat doesn’t know it should be terrified of the ocean and maybe just loves the smell of striped bass. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then Elijah started playing a great riff on his bass, which turned out to be the opening of “Seven Nation Army.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The hyena’s roar filled the higher range of what my ears could hear, Orange Juice’s bass roar filled the lower range, and somewhere in between I could hear the cries of the helpless zebra. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instruments with ranges that do not fall comfortably into either bass or treble clef may use a C clef or may be transposing instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I fished just long enough to catch three bass, about half an hour. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The music playing for him is one of his own tracks: “Deep Blue Apocalypse,” a song with a soul-shaking bass and addictive beat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crews were getting ready, the judges were taking their seats, and the DJ was hyping up the crowd, the bass so loud it made the walls vibrate. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

With his first check for overtime work, Willie bought himself a bass drum and a pair of cymbals. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When another song comes on, he just bops his head to the bass. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Bystanders shouted out their good wishes to her over the pounding of bass drums and flutes piping “Yankee Doodle” as our family watched the town’s Fourth of July parade from a set of bleachers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

See, the shoes are bait, like I’m one of those fat bass fish Granddaddy likes to catch in the summer and Dee-Nice is Supreme’s bobber. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But Dray finally turns down the music, and loud yelling takes the place of the heavy bass. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think about how my old boyfriend Max used to tell me I’d make a good bass player, and things start getting clearer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Subtly, my fingers press down imaginary chords on an imaginary bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like that which cycles through Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’, these sequences were driven by the direction of travel of the bass line, giving forward momentum to the music, hence the name ‘harmonic progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The front door was open, and the music pouring out of it was so loud that the bass shook the ground under Rishi’s feet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, inside the gatehouse, there was a neat little hole in the middle of the vaulted ceiling, which had painted tracery and basses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked past the bass stands and across the low channel to our beach, I decided that I would take the ferry to New Bedford alone. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“A school of white bass,” she finally said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puff Daddy and Mase poured from the stereo, the bass thumping so loud she could feel it in her throat, then faded back to make way for Notorious B.I.G. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The school of white bass was still on the ledge, glistening in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then things would start moving again, and sounds were bass heavy and hollow. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a sea bass special today,” she stammered. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the river, beyond the place where the trout and the bass were plentiful but before the river went underground heading for the mill, the bank turned around an incline. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vaguely remember Lara standing in the doorway, the room dark and the outside dark and everything mild and comfortable but sort of spinny, the world pulsing as if from a heavy bass beat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The stereo was blasting, but the music was all drowned out by the loud rattle of the bass, bumping, shaking the entire back of the truck. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Each voice faded out: keyboard, bass, percussion, blues harp, and blues guitar. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

All triads are transformed in some way if the root in the bass line is not the same as the bottom note of the triad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The bass was bumping, my crew was dancing, and everyone was having a great time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The music feels too loud and too soft all at once, and underneath its bass line, I can hear Abby breathing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Culebra burst back in as one: guitars, bass, drums, and keys a single, relentless electric roar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Preacher pulled the biggest two bass and the biggest perch off the stringers and said, “This perch is ten years old, and these bass are one year old each. How many years is that?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I step into a yawning cavern of darkness, flashing lights, and a pounding bass that shakes me deep in my chest. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bass of his brother’s music pulsing in his chest, Tad went back to his room and grabbed his gym bag. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever her hands hit bass and treble chords at the same time, the bodice stretched tight across her bust, and on fast pieces, the jiggle was something to see! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I insisted, and so the thumping twangy bass noise resumed, and over it, a light baritone chanting in Caribbean patois to the rhythms of a nursery rhyme, or a playground skipping-rope jingle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the shop they bought mackerel, and butterfish, and sea bass. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was easier for Chester to play the ones written for tenors than the ones for sopranos, contraltos, and basses, but he did them all beautifully. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m dreaming. Remember how I always said I wanted to go bass fishing, and you would tease me that nobody under fifty goes fishing?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I threw in some big “bombs” with my bass drum foot. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny fiddled with his bass, and Ellie pretended to take notes to avoid eye contact with me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I let my body ride the bass, and I mouth the lyrics to myself. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The bass in our car is still boom, boom, booming. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One of Geisbert’s greatest happinesses in life, apart from his work, came from being in the outdoors, fishing for black bass and hunting for deer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say again, cracking up, pounding some crazy bass notes to match the funky treble. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I love the deep rumble of the bass and the syncopation of the treble. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The bass player and drummer keep on without him, playing ever more furiously. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I recognize one of Mustafa’s friends playing the alto saxophone and a boy from his basketball team strumming the bass guitar. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Ford,” sang out an immense bass voice from all the golden trumpets. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d sung along with any group or singer who joined us through speakers as the bass boomed low and the treble pined high. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He walked past me, past the bass stands, down over the bluff and across the sand bridge that was nearly dry for once, the tide dead low. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But then his right arm mysteriously disappeared, leaving him with nothing but a boogie- woogie walking bass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Mike on bass walked the bottom bass line up and then down. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to bring my bass along but Mom said there’d be no room. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lillian Woodward droned on, most of them whispered—loudly—to each other instead of singing, and their words came to Turner even over the bass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The stone towers thrilled under them, trembling bodily like the bass strings of musical instruments. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The double basses and timpani are rolled in, and helping to wheel in a harp is a woman with a turquoise scarf over blond hair, wearing sunglasses and deep red lipstick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A vicious bass growling, a shocking snapping sound, and a high keening, suddenly breaking off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He runs the video again, and we sit holding our basses, disconnected from the amps, just trying to play along. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His voice changed suddenly from tenor to bass on the high note in “song.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My pulse beats with my footsteps on the ramp, and as I get closer to Jason’s front door, I hear a thumping bass line and muted laughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do one more bass riff—the fingers of my left hand dancing on the deeper-toned keys. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“All in a trumpet case? I should have taken up the bass fiddle.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Human,” she intoned, her voice suddenly resonating with bass tones. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And when Uncle played the albums Cecile had left behind—the ones with piano, bass, drums, and smooth-voiced Sarah Vaughan—in my mind, smoke still filled the house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are giant rented speakers blasting a song I don’t recognize, but it has the most perfect thudding bass, like a heartbeat. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I spin around, pulling my headphones off of my ears and dropping my hands from the bass at the same time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Ophie always liked the way the pastor’s deep bass rumble voice read the Scripture, and the way his wife always closed her eyes as her husband read. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She felt pulsing vibrations, like she was standing in front of a powerful stereo speaker during a song with lots of bass. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The car engine rumbles and the bass of the stereo makes the seat vibrate, but I don’t drive off. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I heard all the words and instruments, complete with stereo highs and bass lows to “My Girl,” fluting out of his long but happy face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dead bass and sun- fish were also found, occurring abundantly in Wheeler Reservoir, into which the creek flows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could almost feel the vibrations of the grunts that thumped and strummed like a bass. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Mo- qorro’s voice was a bass drum that seemed to boom from somewhere deep within his massive torso. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The resulting 10-song set, with a central theme of honesty, is comfortably adrift in a sparkling constellation between indie-electronic, bass and ambient music. Headphones and hospital rooms: Ark Patrol creates majestic new album during cancer treatment 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

A few decades ago, striped bass and shad wouldn’t swim past Wilmington because oxygen levels in the water were too low for survival. Millions of horseshoe crabs spawn on the shores of Delaware Bay each year. Here’s how to see them. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

A music teacher needed a bass player for the high-school band, so Little took up the bass. The Ardor of Jane Little, a World-Record-Setting Orchestra Musician 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Hudson River Park is like the juvenile hangout for organisms like the striped bass,” Ms. Witcher said, explaining that bass hatchlings spend two to four years in the estuary before traveling into the ocean. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Kronstadt’s ruling on Thursday noted the similarity of various hooks in both songs, bass lines, keyboard parts, vocal lines and elements of both songs’ melodic and harmonic composition. Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams lose first round in 'Blurred Lines' case 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Collier will appear with a slightly altered version of the band from the album: Jordan Williams on piano, Jeremiah Hunt on bass and Michael Shekwoaga Ode on drums. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

“I am a bass player. We play only jazz. No rock ’n’ roll.” Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

"Then you get some drums. Then you go to the keyboard. Then you go to the bass. It was the same process, but with people." Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Hawley himself ekes out little filigree solos with flutters of his guitar's tremolo arm, in sophisticated counterpoint to the ringing din at bass level. Richard Hawley – review 2012-10-06T23:05:53Z

"This is our story of 50 fantastic years," Jagger, Richards, guitarist/bass player Wood and drummer Watts said in a joint statement. Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour 2012-07-12T10:43:06Z

There is a periodic rumble of bass drums and gongs. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ted Dwane, 25, double bass, only manages a noise halfway between a sigh and a laugh before heading out to the gardens. Mumford & Sons: sound of the summer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

“I would hit the bass string and people would throw their sodas into the air.” Makana, master of the Hawaiian slack-key guitar, comes to the Neptune 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The former featured a scurrying bass solo from Harper, but “Wave” was Sanders’s moment to shine. Review | Jazz vibraphonist and drummer Chuck Redd shows a hometown audience his enduring range 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Skeletal but frantic percussion and bass drive this panicky admission of fear of commitment. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

She ordered the Chilean bass; he, the chicken. Date Lab: Forget happily ever after. They chose to live in the moment. 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

In “Blaxploitation,” a brisk funk bass riff carries sound bites about revolution and Noname rapping at top speed about systemic racism, stereotypes and constant tension: “I’m struggling to simmer down/Maybe I’m an insomni-black.” On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Taylor thumbs a whispering bass line for nearly every one of them, an involuntary courtesy from a man who thinks of every note as an amen, a pulse, a breath. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Electric guitar, pedal steel or bowed bass turn up in the background, just enough to widen and deepen the emotional chasms where Ms. Pureka stares down her sorrows. Playlist: Vintage Rock and Midlife Heartaches 2010-05-20T22:21:00Z

It was a novel timbre on which to base a work, though not quite as a novel as the double bass player thrumming along the length of the strings with a plectrum. Ensemble 10/10/Rundell – review 2013-02-28T14:59:43Z

Rather than pulsing from an invisible digital file, his compositions of scratches, bass thrums and beats are generated live, right before our eyes. Artist of the week 130: Haroon Mirza 2011-03-18T15:30:49Z

Lee started to learn the bass in 2009, and Speer “just sort of guided me on my way,” she said. ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

“I’m the greatest bass player in the world.” ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Pace is key; rhythms are wound taut with ticking, delay-crunched guitars, processed percussion and buzzing digital bass, all shot through with radiant synths and blistered hooks. Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits – review 2012-08-23T20:45:02Z

By the pool, bass boomed from towering speakers. Wristbands and Room Service: Music Festivals Check In to Hotels 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Its midtempo groove, deliberate bass line and informal backup vocals hark back to Sly and the Family Stone, while Syd doles out her come-ons just a few syllables at a time. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The band’s lack of a bass player became a low-range deficiency. Music Review: Basilica Soundscape Featured Music and Art 2013-09-15T22:05:57Z

But one day, as Wood was trying to isolate the bass on the recording, Phair overheard a stripped-down version of the song. Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The performance closed with “Will Never Be Forgotten,” a lament with a descending bass line and a melody that winds downward like a teardrop. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was garage rock with a punky twist; taut and edgy, with Bigley developing into a commanding vocalist, with a booming bass voice or wildcat screaming as needed. The legendary U-Men and grunge-era Gruntruck release albums 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Bach knew the mandolin, cello and bass in their earlier incarnations. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The piece is a study in right-hand arpeggios, which race up and down the keyboard as the left hand adds a grounding bass line in octaves. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

They toyed with dance beats, keyboard chords and bass lines — thickening the song and then thinning it again. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was not the fact that Jane Little played the bass that was the most remarkable thing about her, although women remain the exception rather than the rule in orchestral bass sections. Jane Little, Atlanta’s Venerable Bassist, Dies at 87 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Also a skilled musician, who played the violin, bass and piano, Zamparelli performed in an Army band during World War II. Zamparelli, Howard Hughes’ Chief Designer, Dies 2012-09-10T13:41:51Z

Unexpected outbursts interrupt meditative interludes, culminating in a sardonic climax that eventually subsides to a whispered conclusion on double bass. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z

Her two older sisters played music and enlisted Lydia to play bass in their new-wave band when she was 13. Lydia Loveless: Defiance on the farm 2011-11-22T17:10:00Z

I mean, we could get a new bass player, but there's no way we're going to do that. Rod Stewart: 'I've been a golden boy for too long' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-10-09T14:59:37Z

But their antics fueled an enduring run, starting in 1958 when they were booked at Disneyland: singing, dancing and playing homemade instruments like a tin-can xylophone, a washtub bass and tuned skillets. Bill Skiles, Frantic Clown to a Straight Man, Dies at 79 2011-05-19T01:01:07Z

The downward transposition pushes the bass parts into tenebrous depths, especially in the concluding Magnificat, a text often given bright and sparkling settings, which here took on a majestic gravity. Music Review: Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin 2013-01-03T23:10:05Z

It was the Seattle scene — poetry screamed over locomotive-pounding bass and drums. Spirit of Nirvana lives on 2011-09-20T16:33:25Z

It's tightly controlled sub bass, in violent punches. The man who mastered Shabazz Palaces' 'Black Up' 2012-12-05T00:46:05Z

Heavy bass lines and kick drums are all but banished, perhaps to return in remixes. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

I was so delighted by this that I felt a pang when Newman said “good bass” instead of “terrific bass.” “Saturday Night Live” Celebrates Itself 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

In some cases, entire reels of old tape were missing, and elements on them like bass lines had to be recreated. De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Their strategy is to ramp up the more macho aspects of the genre to almost parodic levels, which is magnified even further live: industrial-strength bass, deliberately confrontational, lurches and leers from the stage. Chase & Status ? review 2011-07-29T12:20:59Z

A lot of the Gucci record, the low end on the bass stuff and some of the 808s, it just sounds so cool. Playlist: Wavves Takes a Listen to Big Boi, Marley and More 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

At 10, he chose to play bass, because he saw it as the underdog of rock band instruments. Review | He named his band the Slants to reclaim a slur. Not everyone approved. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

She enjoys playing the bass because “it’s like the foundation without being really up front”; when reviewers listen to her music, she encourages them to focus “on the object and not the person behind it.” Weekend Reading: The Makings of Three People 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Well, try to imagine those sharp-toothed worries nattering away to the wail of a saxophone and the downbeat of a bass. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton in ?No Place to Go? at Joe?s Pub 2012-03-22T02:30:08Z

In came the two harps, the tuba and the bass drum and cymbals you couldn’t help noticing the minute you walked into the hall on Sunday. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ by Distinguished Concerts International New York 2012-11-26T22:07:22Z

Hear how a bass solo leads to a series of quick-fire exchanges between guitar and drums. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

But consider what’s also visible on the stage from the beginning: a radio, a piano, a bass, a set of drums and old-timey microphones on stands. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Though he’d never previously played a note of music, or even sung publicly, he bought a bass guitar and began composing lyrics. Forsaking the Punk Clubs of His Youth for a Well-Stocked Library 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

In a certain light, on “Interventions,” the Baltimore quartet’s invigorating third album, this is an instrumental dance band — guitar, bass, drums, alto saxophone — with a lining of post-punk energy. Review: ‘Interventions,’ the Horse Lords’ Daring and Energetic Third Album 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

I can feel that bass in my belly and I'm listening on a laptop! This week's new tracks with Elis James 2012-08-03T23:05:28Z

No effort was observed for bass in any of the pools. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The MarDon Dock has been so successful that many fishers are skipping lunch to enjoy a positive crappie, perch and bass bite all day long. Potholes Reservoir region full of autumn fishing and hunting activities 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Cuckoo Chaos, a California band of three guitars, bass and drums, uses those guitars to mingle West African-style counterpoint with some indie-rock noise; its songs were precise and rhapsodic, each evolution well planned. Critic?s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music 2011-10-23T23:43:16Z

McCarthy too plays what is in his heart, this idea of “making a way out of no way, creating a future over and against its absence” rumbling like a bass under every sentence. Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

His cohort was a lead guitarist and Presley in turn borrowed a bass, before being forced to drive down to London to buy his own equipment, when he was asked to return the instrument. Obituary: The Troggs' Reg Presley 2013-02-05T14:03:29Z

The pace and energy of the performance picked up when the bass Kevin Burdette arrived as the devilish Nick Shadow, who brings news that a forgotten uncle has left Tom a fortune. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z

And the tireless bass player Verdine White, whose long locks and fringe-and-glitter chaps were the only remaining traces of glam, is still a demon player who kicks, jumps, struts and whirls across the stage, nonstop. Review: Legendary Earth, Wind & Fire came to party, and fans obliged 2010-08-28T21:18:00Z

The recording starts with a jolt: A pounding bass line from the Beatles’ old friend Klaus Voorman fuses with the drummer Ringo Starr’s crisp, steady beat. Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The band’s initial lineup replaced those musical elements with loping bass lines and untethered guitar parts, embracing dissonance and opening up spaces that punk had filled in. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z

"They are doing their best to balance the bass overload of dubstep and the melodic narrative of traditional songs" – The New Yorker. New band of the day ? No 929: Nero 2010-12-13T17:07:00Z

On the west side of Insurgentes is La Zona Rosa, which has been an important center for art and gay nightlife but now feels like a faded tourist-party zone washed in neon and thumping bass. In this trendy Mexico City neighborhood, you won’t be hard-pressed to find a good cocktail 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Once fixed, the bass line wasn’t overemphasized, rather just prominent enough to cohere within the whole. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Carlos Iturralde's "Fata Morgana" was a sonic mirage, with a trio of winds offstage mysteriously altering the sounds of violin, cello and bass on stage. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The guitar and vocals are now loud, so what about the bass and drums? Ask the indie professor: How loud is too loud? 2011-01-11T15:52:45Z

He also provided the intense bass guitar that, with Baker’s explosive drums, underpinned Cream’s rhythmic, driving sound. Jack Bruce, bassist with 1960s British rock group Cream, dies at 71

Phil’s bass quintet, the opportunity to perform a new piece while hidden inside a tent is fun. Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Waters kicked off “Money” with the bass riff everybody who grew up in the ’70s knows, whether they want to or not. A rock-and-roll concert for veterans and by veterans 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Well, about fishing for striped bass, at least. Sleeping Under the Stars in Brooklyn 2010-05-12T03:00:00Z

Then, the pulsation begins from piano in the basses, but the violins, for example, and the winds, they are playing forte. Semyon Bychkov on Tchaikovsky’s Protest Against Death 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

He grabbed his laptop and hard drive — holding the makings of that unfinished album — along with his vintage 1960s Hofner bass guitar. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Hard II Love” is filled with synthesizer bass lines and the shallow, spattering percussion of trap, and Usher uses his share of Auto-Tune and choppy digital edits; his songs are aimed at radio. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Lubina, the European sea bass, was sheathed in handsome golden scales of potato and bewitchingly sauced with a reduction of red wine and port swirled with butter. At Thomas Keller’s Per Se, Slips and Stumbles 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Futures” charges forward on darting guitars and dancing bass tones until unexpected interludes steer the song in other directions. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Robertson Dean narrates this monumental work in a nicely paced, unflappable bass baritone. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

When word got out the documentary was being made, there were tentative emails from BBC engineers and mixers - all of them bass players - almost a masonic underground of slap players who became involved. Paying homage to 'slap' bass 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

But there's never that bass like on "Monks," with that special rubber-snap, and those splashy cymbals. Fall with Frank Ocean: 'Monks' 2012-11-21T18:13:53Z

The bass is so penetrating that it dislodges confetti from some other, now-forgotten gig. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z

Luthier Andy Beech of Bellingham says he started making guitars for the singer after moving to Los Angeles in the late 80's and meeting a bass technician who worked for Prince. A Washington state man who made more than two dozen custom guitars for Prince in the 1990s is recalling what that meant to his "little company" following Prince's sudden death last week 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

What gives this album its own identity is the lineup of timbres, with three saxophones, along with bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano and drums. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z

Shearer is a terrific bass singer, and a very comical, cynical narrator. My Meltdown: Richard Thompson 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Cellos and basses in the first movement dug in as though warming up for Stravinsky-ized ancient Russian rites. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, he played bass for the band Funkapolitan, which appeared on the BBC show “Top of the Pops,” opened for the Clash and recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Designer Tom Dixon Unveils His ‘Secret’ Project With Ikea 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Some of our players arrive two or three hours beforehand,” Mr. Johnston said, “especially the bass players, because they haven’t seen their bass in 24 hours.” Small Army, Philharmonic in Tow 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Beneath him, a few dozen ravers, Burning Man warriors and spaced-out club kids bobbed to his airy bass music. Further Future goes deep into the desert for a new kind of festival 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The Dalles Pool – Bank and boat anglers are catching some bass. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The five white-jacketed singers found the pocket inside a deeply funky bass line and detailed their redemption after a "Bad Trip." SXSW Day 4: Rhye, Mo, Mikal Cronin, Parquet Courts 2013-03-16T17:01:00Z

The first four stanzas are short and fairly similar in shape, and the strange and slowly accumulating group sound, with accordion and vibraphone, cymbals and bowed bass, repeats a figure accordingly. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z

But there's no denying the enormous, and enormously loud, supersonic waves emanating from the bass, guitar and drums. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

Charlotte Nediger, on harpsichord, and Ms. Mackay, on bass, were also solid presences, and the bursts of virtuosity were too widespread and numerous to list. ArtsBeat: Star-Studded Early Music in Toronto 2011-03-04T20:30:25Z

From the music to the prose, Jean-Raymond gave his audience a symphony of grounding bass and emotional grace notes. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

You might not appreciate some bass if you've not heard it. 'It's not about steel, it's the attitude' 2013-06-17T15:52:00Z

The dancers of RAW, with backgrounds in hip-hop and tap, join forces with a beatboxer, a drummer, a guitarist and a bass player for a family-friendly hour of rhythmic fun and playful competition. Dance Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

As I scrambled back on, I noticed two guys in a bass boat trolling about 50 yards away, and I wondered how it was that my finest moments have always included an audience. My formerly adventurous life 2012-07-13T23:00:00Z

I like the way the guitar is upfront in this, I like the dynamics of the bass here. Alabama Shakes? Unvarnished Soul on Shiny New Album 2012-04-06T21:51:01Z

Croon' dad played the bass, and hi uncle Toby played an instrument. Seattle's first rap group Emerald Street Boys reunites at the Crocodile Saturday, 01/03/10 2010-04-02T01:50:00Z

According to his website, Burke was born March 21, 1940, "to the sounds of horns and bass drums" at the United Praying Band The House of God for All People in West Philly. Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam airport at 70 2010-10-10T20:15:00Z

His right-hand melodies, rippling with a sense of dance in the faster music, and his left-hand bass line possessed both personality and transparency. Char Prescott and Ryo Yanagitani perform varied program in S&R Foundation’s opener

Of the seven unreleased songs Champagne played, my favorite had Pearl and Thomas rapping about computers over a seriously disturbed beat from DJ Gajamagic, mad stuttering bass underneath a sharp squeaking sound. Capitol Hill Block Party day one notables: Macklemore, Shabazz Palaces, Champagne Champagne 2010-07-24T20:25:00Z

The menu included pistachio-crusted Chilean sea bass and coconut and macadamia ice cream balls with raspberry sauce. A Palm Beach Power Hostess Prepares for Trump’s Washington 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Over rumbling bass and spastic bursts of guitar, “Disparate Youth” takes a clear-eyed view of street rebellions across the planet: “We know we want more, a life worth fighting for.” Album review: Santigold, 'Master of My Make-Believe' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-30T13:58:00Z

The walls will be resurfaced to improve the hall’s resonance, especially bass frequencies. A Pandemic Opportunity: Geffen Hall’s Overhaul Accelerates 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Another night I heard the RP Quartet, a young group made up of two guitars, a violin and bass that played “’60s jazz cooked in a Django sauce,” according to the concert poster. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Fora Baltacigil, who became the Philharmonic’s principal bass player in 2012 after stints with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, left this winter as well, exposing rifts in the bass section. Philharmonic Faces Critical Choices as Key Players Depart 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It features a chamberlike personnel almost identical to the one assembled here, with Camila Meza on guitar and vocals, Ben Street on bass, Henry Cole on drums, and a dynamic string quartet. Jazz Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:23:06Z

Wilk does an adequate job on these extended tracks, but it’s the vitality of Iommi on guitar and Butler on bass that impresses. Album review: Black Sabbath, '13' 2013-06-09T22:29:00Z

Mr. Lang takes a slow tempo and keeps stretching the mingling lines as they flow over the bass. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

This is as expressive as music gets, and Ms. Röschmann and Mr. Daniels traded off the arching phrases with floating eloquence and poise over a steady bass line. Music Review: From Two Stars, Handel?s Sober Side 2011-04-04T21:52:01Z

The slow, halting melody conveys both his longing and his desolation; a curiously lilting bass line for pizzicato strings seems to mock Ariodante with a hint of Ginevra’s fickleness. Review: Joyce DiDonato Is Wrenching in Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

More emblematic, though, is the album’s closer, an arrangement of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” that he plays alone, balancing melody, bass line and chords: beauty and bedazzlement, unabashed, all at once. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z

Great screechy cheers rose up from inside the concert hall, accompanied by the thump of bass. Dance Competitions for Youngsters 2012-09-02T16:24:50Z

James Genus played electric bass that was sometimes cranked up uncomfortably high for the theater’s acoustics, particularly when he went in high-speed pursuit of Mr. Hancock’s keyboard lines. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z

And the crucial bass pattern, which begins with four descending notes and provides the foundation for the entire piece, now becomes the topmost voice, starting with four rising notes. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Her 2016 album, “Early Americans,” her first in a trio setting, played up the contrast between her horn and the pulsing bass of Mark Helias. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

There was one minor problem with Carlos D playing bass for Interpol. Sleeve Notes: The symbol bands nobody can type 2010-08-13T14:42:00Z

Featuring a pair of collaborators in their 40s, Mr. Iverson on piano and Mr. Street on bass, the group is celebrating the release of its utterly convincing third album, “Philadelphia Beat.” Jazz Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Her bass heavy, gothic pop album — “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — was created in her bedroom with her brother, Finneas O’Connell. Little Nas X, Alicia Keys added key moments at the Grammys 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

I’m always starting with the beat and the bass line. How Christine and the Queens Wrote One of the Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Bring on the ancient grains and sustainable sea bass. Review | True Food Kitchen is health-bent on pleasure 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Two basses plucking in tandem cradle Laura Marling’s resolute voice as she turns away an ex who wants a second chance. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Write the notes out as a single chord, and you draw a tower of fifths wavering over a tritone in the bass. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

This mercurial mix of sumptuous bass clarinet hooks over sparkling percussion, free-jazzy electric guitar breaks, funk-bass strumming and folksy accordion tunes is delivered by the resourceful Portal and a sizeable group. F&M playlist 2010-08-19T22:55:00Z

But once it gets going the bass line grabs you by the shoulders and refuses to let go. Review: Deadmau5 doles out lackluster EDM 2012-09-24T16:16:06Z

The Scherzo, with its obtuse iteration of a Baroque bass line, lives on color contrast, and the Philharmonic players offered plenty, from cobweblike string tremolos to gleaming brass evoking the tolling of feast-day bells. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Or in Lydon's own words: "It's those juxtapositions of events pinned down with some gloriously sweltering bass that we can hover around." No hint of mellowing for ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon 2012-10-15T23:06:50Z

The whitewashed villa is famous for its lush banks of hydrangea and geranium, an expansive swimming pool overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar, 10 posh rooms and dinners of grilled sea bass and Château Chasse-Spleen Bordeaux. | The Modern-Day Melting Pot of Tangier 2013-12-02T17:46:32Z

The phrasing, the relaxed pace and flexibility, the harmonies and the way melody is arranged between piano and bass all suggest the past. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z

The work sometimes feels dated, but Honegger’s sound combinations are consistently savvy: melancholy trumpet and double bass, winsome soprano and flute. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

We'd reconvene at our bass player Nick's mom's house in the suburbs. Ben Gibbard: 'We've got a superhero in Seattle. I'm not making this up' 2012-11-14T14:57:00Z

He had to sit in front of bass legends, holding a bass, getting schooled. Paying homage to 'slap' bass 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

On Friday, his vocal harmonies were strong and sure, and his bass playing was agile enough to slip between Alex’s stampeding kick drums and Eddie’s slaloming guitar leads. Concert review: Van Halen at the United Center 2012-02-25T07:25:00Z

The two friends had a band called Stainless Steel, and they decorated Michael’s bass drum with the band’s initials. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Palm Coast Freeway captures this luxurious sound quite well, the elegant synths and bass suitable for both a dance club and a bank lobby. August's best music from across the MAP 2012-08-15T08:00:00Z

Franklin started playing the bass only two years ago, almost by accident. Seattle area again well represented in Essentially Ellington jazz contest 2010-05-07T05:14:00Z

If anybody is missed above all here, it’s Tyler Sargent, whose high, melodic bass lines made their best songs whole in a way that only a full-time bassist can. REVIEW: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Loses Three Bandmates, Presses On 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Inside, it's all pumping bass and baggy clothing, a very urban vibe; outside, it's just the quiet suburban streets of Buckinghamshire. A new dawn: how street dance came in from the cold 2010-03-23T21:45:00Z

It gives full rein to Paul's extremely loud and precise drumming, Geordie's jagged razor-blade guitar and Youth's possibly incompetent but totally hot bass: a formidable sound. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z

Using twin bass drums, Baker fashioned a pounding, poly-rhythmic style uncommonly swift and heavy that inspired and intimidated countless musicians. Ginger Baker, Cream’s volatile drummer, dies at 80 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

A red-wine butter sauce with striped bass was very vague, as if it needed to be reduced longer. Restaurant Review: Élan in the Flatiron District 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

On Saturday night, they unleashed the best of what followed, spanning from the heavy bass of “No Type” to the kinetic “Start a Party” from their new album, “Sremm Life 2.” At Trillectro, youth is not wasted 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

But she chose to put the melody over “this fat beat with this fat bass,” adding sirens, synths and strings, which “makes me feel powerful in my pain,” she said. Raye, Tired of Music’s Waiting Game, Releases an Album at Last 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The same could be said of Mr. Abercrombie’s solo prelude to the standard “Embraceable You,” which he went on to play with just bass and drums. Music Review: Melding Incongruities, as Only Those With a History Can 2010-10-13T21:47:00Z

Thick, throbbing bass notes suddenly materialize and heave up, dubstep-style; a drumbeat announces itself, patters for a while, suddenly disappears. Music Review: James Blake Sings With Piano at Terminal 5 2013-05-08T21:01:49Z

And on piano, Mr. Shipp works in sharp shots and splatters, leaning hard into Mr. Parker, locking in with the bass but not embracing. The Playlist: Lil Peep’s Sweet Gloom, and 8 More New Songs 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

She was a session bass player and guitarist who played with everybody from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa. Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s Would Like to Talk to You About Memes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Taking a Fender bass amp as a model, Mr. Marshall, a former drummer and owner of a music store in London, invented the Marshall stack in the 1960s. ArtsBeat: Kirk Hammett, Guitarist for Metallica, Talks About His Beloved Marshalls 2012-04-06T17:27:17Z

This group used to include another brother, the great bassist Percy Heath, who died a decade ago; its lineup, still sturdy, now typically includes David Wong on bass and Jeb Patton on piano. Jazz Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

With its queasy strings and pronounced bass line, the studio version is a bittersweet commentary on paranoid warmongers. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z

From left: Sam Fogarino, Daniel Kessler, Carlos D and Paul Banks Three months after founding member Carlos Dengler left Interpol, the band have revealed the reason for his departure: he didn't like playing bass. Interpol: Carlos D 'really, really didn't like the bass' 2010-08-12T11:52:00Z

Three Legs included pedal-steel guitar, upright bass, a guitarist who doubled on mandolin and, for this concert, a guest fiddler: David Mansfield, who toured with Mr. Dylan’s father, Bob, in the Rolling Thunder Revue. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z

I choose creamy mushroom soup followed by grilled bass with coconut rice. The magic factor to a solo Colombia adventure: Turtle power 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It’s an acoustic piano trio album, with Thomas Morgan on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, and at times it can evoke other abstract rhapsodists in that format, like Paul Bley. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z

The music held back on bass until he got to “Words I Never Said,” a furious political screed. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

“I’m moving out of orbit, turning in somersaults,” Yorke sings on the opening track, “Bloom,” which evokes a zero-gravity fall into the deep end, echoes of instruments organized over busy drums and reverberant bass. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z

Sunderam slathers market fish — sometimes striped bass, other days branzino — with chili paste, then bundles it in a banana leaf before it hits the grill. Bindaas review: A hot spot for Indian snacks, from the team behind Rasika 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

There is a spirit to trap music, a genre of Southern hip-hop known for its 808 drum bass and layered synthesizers. This yoga instructor’s secret to more inclusive classes: Trap music 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

With that in mind, Goransson locked himself in his studio for a month and intuitively bought a bunch of rarely heard bass woodwind recorders. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The bass player from Haim calls their Friday-afternoon performance "the greatest moment of my life" and demands someone come on stage and take a photograph of her with the cheering audience behind her. Why Glastonbury belonged to the Rolling Stones 2013-07-01T08:32:17Z

Aside from continuing where Division Bell left off, the album has a few other reasons for existing — chief among them to pay tribute to bass player Rick Wright, who died in 2008. Pink Floyd’s Endless River Is Just the Latest Album to Recycle Old Material 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Similarly, Jai Wolf’s throbbing bass lines from the dance stage clipped the quieter moments of an otherwise illustrious set from post-rock titans Explosions in the Sky, which capped Saturday night. Sasquatch! Music Festival 2018 recap: Artists of all ages made beloved fest feel vital 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Wisely, he stuck with his more eclectic material for this show, during which he was backed by his band, Black Magic: Marc Cary on piano, Chris Smith on bass and Adam Jackson on drums. Music: Kem and Jos? James Perform in New York 2010-08-10T22:28:00Z

Similarly, he turned the piano into the foundation of a retooled “Desolation Row” and stoked a ferocious “Highway 61 Revisited” and a barreling “Fire on the Mountain” with percussive left-hand bass lines. Concert review: Bob Dylan at United Center 2012-11-10T06:43:10Z

Lyrical fragments occasionally emerged, with particular sweetness in the bass flute. Review: Art and Nature Blend in a Concert by Contemporaneous 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

He moves fluidly with his bass guitar, striking poses and shaking his hips; Croft is rigid, barely swaying her shoulders. The xx 2010-07-13T21:00:00Z

Eric Owens, the bass, brought dignity and a warm, crumbly sound that sometimes seemed to land between the notes, but was deeply felt. Review | Noseda gives new lightness to powerful and familiar Requiem 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The bass Neal Davies, a late replacement for Alistair Miles, was in wonderful voice, inspiring in the first part, magnificently imploring in the second. The Dream of Gerontius ? review 2011-03-28T21:00:02Z

Yet none of the band’s mixes are more notorious than “. . . And Justice for All,” which contains almost no discernable bass. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The set list includes piano-heavy acts like The Doors and Yes, and you can liven up all your old downloaded tracks by playing the guitar or bass parts on the keyboard. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z

Accompanying herself on upright bass, Spalding concluded with a solo encore of "Precious," a tender, confessional ballad. Esperanza Spalding buoyant, upbeat, winning at Paramount 2012-04-25T17:07:04Z

Maine trawlers, opportunistic as ever, want to start a sea bass fishery. Have you eaten your last lobster? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes, it was, ‘Hey, Lin, what about this chord here, that bass line there?’ Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Broken Bells determinedly reconstructed an analog era steeped in wistful memories, using sliding synthesizer lines, Kraut-rock bass tones and primitive drum machines. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z

They rapped and sang, horns jousted with guitars, and bass and drums hammered. Kids These Days in no mood for subtleties at SXSW 2012-03-18T06:14:00Z

Mr. Rosenwinkel played a tremulous repetition at the keyboard, around which a deep unison arose: double bass, bowed, and bass clarinet, faintly brayed. Music Review: Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard 2010-06-24T21:21:00Z

Over the weekend, Trinity Wall Street’s annual presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” posed similar provocations, as soprano soloists exchanged roles with tenors, altos with basses. Review: A Singer Scales Back Her Grand-Opera Voice 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Main courses are limited to just a handful of options, like veal fillet stuffed with smoked trout or sea bass with salsa verde, though adventurous locals swear by the multicourse surprise menus. 36 Hours in Basel, Switzerland 2014-01-23T16:48:12Z

Adopting a shy feminine pose, she follows it with a gravelly bass. Cracking Jokes Right Before the World Turned Upside Down 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

On the other side of the stage, Robin Stein's looping/loping bass guitar and occasional monotone echo vocals were in fine form, as was Tyler Swan's locked in, hyperintentional drumming. Concert review: Flexions at Neumos 05.01.10 2010-05-03T00:47:00Z

The occasional burst of texture — handclaps, sparkling synth ambience, bass curlicues, and a smoldering bridge — adds verve throughout. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Croft and Sim played clean, simple lines on guitar and bass, respectively, but enunciated like lovelorn R&B singers. The xx finds a quiet place in big-sound pop world 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

But three minutes into the song, the throbbing bass line suddenly cranks up, staggered against programmed hi-hats, a blooping synthesizer line and cascading, wordless vocals; she can dance her way free. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

There were good performances from many of the 24 finalists, but the ones that stayed in my mind were almost exclusively those of basses, bass-baritones and baritones. Music Review: George London Foundation Awards at Morgan Library 2012-02-19T22:22:21Z

The living room is adorned with an upright bass and a taxidermied bear. Kelly Clarkson Is Nobody’s Puppet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

I also like them a lot for fish, from scallops to bass. New to the kitchen? These are the only pots and pans that you actually need 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

As the only  guests, we were seated without delay and were soon digging into three whole fried sea bass smothered in chopped tomatoes alongside rice, salad and gooey, sweet fried plantains. Mom and Dad, Meet My Budget 2010-08-04T03:15:00Z

Many are simple: a slender melodic line, curled here and there into arabesques, above a prayer-bead string of repeated notes in the bass. Bringing the Colors Back to a Mystic’s Music 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

For most of the album Mr. Hodge plays all the instruments — electric bass, acoustic piano, synthesizers, drum programming — with an emphasis on color and mood. The Playlist: Thundercat Unplugs, Young M.A. Gets Remixed 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her forthcoming single Gold Car is more a showcase for the deep low bass – it's every bit as charismatic as Sharp herself, whose light/night/right rhymes are less impressive than Green's production trickery. New band of the day: Phreeda Sharp (No 1,514) 2013-05-16T15:31:43Z

A new album of X Japan hits - tailor-made for American listeners, with lyrics translated into English and the tracks heavier on the bass - is set for release this year, complete with a U.S. tour. Yoshiki seeks global rock glory for X Japan 2011-03-09T03:42:09Z

The defendants respond by positing that “the descending chromatic bass line is a centuries-old, common musical element not entitled to protection.” The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Dengler played bass on the album before leaving the group in May. Interpol replace Carlos D with Dave Pajo 2010-06-08T09:39:00Z

As the villain who repents, Kevin Short displayed an imposing bass voice. Tenor Fabiano shines in Verdi's `I Lombardi' 2013-04-09T19:46:08Z

But Birchall's ability to coax meanings from tonal subtleties – such as when his tenor sax hovers over humming low bass drones on Going to the Mountain – is pretty effective. Nat Birchall: Guiding Spirit 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z

In the 1986 book “The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri String Quartet in Conversation With David Blum,” Mr. Soyer described the position of a cello in a string quartet as both base and bass. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z

He says that lots of bands that don’t look like political bands actually are, underneath the party tunes and thumping bass—and that that’s a cause Flobots can get behind. Exclusive First Listen: New Flobots Single “Sides” 2012-08-13T12:00:15Z

A very 1980s track — springy synthesizer bass line and hook, programmed beat — carries pure, focused resentment about how much damage she’s done to “my feelings.” Post Malone and the Weeknd’s Emo Synth-Pop, and 12 More New Songs 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

And West's production, the way it works stark single-note piano notes against sliding, liquid bass, is glorious. Friday Favorites: Lace Cadence, Chocolate Chuck, Kanye West 2010-10-01T19:17:00Z

“Gravity” is the album’s only track without a piano, slimming down this band of young aces to just bass, drums, guitar and vibraphone. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

With striped bass costing about $30 a pound in markets, that little sack was the coastal equivalent of scraps of gold gathered off a jeweler’s bench. From Scraps of Bass, Ceviche Is Born 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

This is music for male voices only, accompanied by an ensemble of low strings – five cellos and a double bass – resulting in complex polyphony, austere yet sensuous, over a narrow compass or range. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z

Not just sound, but movement: spectacularly boisterous dances accompany bone-rattling bass. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Then he conducted five players from the orchestra in his unconventional arrangement of the piece, complete with bass clarinet. Music Review: Britten Sinfonia Makes American Debut at Alice Tully Hall 2012-02-23T23:53:29Z

Our bass player, Johnny Colt, did quit in ’97. I Quit a Famous Rock Band 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

A midtempo hip hop jam — though purists might balk at this description — "200 Press" features an oblong bass line and lots of strange aural wobbles but manages to be both melodically sticky and strangely menacing. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

Even Shirley’s pop-oriented music was a technical marvel: He braided bits of classical études into Tin Pan Alley songs, orchestrating it all for an atypical trio of piano, cello and bass. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

London to Gaza was a melancholy ballad over bowed bass that became a flat-out group wail. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble 2010-10-05T21:30:00Z

A persistent bass line skulked through the odd meters of “Compay” by Ms. Kihlstedt; with violin and saxophone in a pas de deux and transparently voiced piano parts, it conjured late-night Latin elegance. New Jazz Standards Quintet Makes Its Debut 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

There was bass that scraped forward like earthmoving equipment and bass like a warm, welcoming pool. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

Recipe Link: Rice and Peas Crab-stuffed seafood is a menu tradition on the Chesapeake Bay, and in season you may substitute rockfish, a Bay-area favorite, for the bass or snapper called for in the recipe. Memorial Day Menu 2010-05-28T16:19:00Z

Except where you found one to borrow, there’s no bass line. A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Edgar Meyer has become the preeminent master of his instrument — the double bass — earning Grammys and other awards for his diverse work, which delves into such genres as classical, bluegrass and jazz. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Despite that, the first single, “Waiting All Night,” is excellent, with a lugubrious, lo-fi sheen that floats on deep-space bass notes, brightened with acoustic guitar strums. REVIEW: Phish Keeps Things Fresh With Fuego 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, he was out playing bass with the R&B barnburners Sam & Dave, learning “how to maintain the pocket,” he said. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Becker doubles on guitar and bass, holding down the bubbling foundation that’s good for about 60 percent of the song’s appeal. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

The quintet’s integration of throbbing electric bass, thwacking drums and warmly glowing vibraphone created a uniquely modern texture and flow. Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 brings both the traditional and the eccentric 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

At first, he faced resistance from jazz purists, who maintained that the electric bass — a backbone of rock music — didn’t fit into the jazz aesthetic. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Thomas Morgan’s bass was a movable pivot, holding the center of the churn. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

It’s very helpful for the company to have that bass note present all the time.” A Lifetime of Roles, Sometimes Two at a Time 2011-06-15T22:29:15Z

A stately “walking” bass that firmly pushes the music forward. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z

The band — Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano and David King on drums — can often sound impatient to greet the future, even as it basks in nostalgic reflection. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z

Birch sings, writes and plays bass like someone who cannot help but be herself, and her distinct, sometimes contradictory personality oozes out of every track. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brownlee and Ms. Slack were among the artists who took part in her panel, which also included the soprano Julia Bullock, the bass Morris Robinson and the tenor Russell Thomas. Opera Can No Longer Ignore Its Race Problem 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

A shadowy mist of cymbal rises off long, sepulchral tones down in the basses and contrabassoon, before a keening fragment of bassoon pierces the quiet with melancholy song. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

He was more than just our bass player. Toto's Steve Lukather remembers bassist Mike Porcaro 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, everyone was drifting out of the old boathouse when Hooky's bass started up and I rushed back to the stage, my nose ending up close to the toecaps of his biker boots. Closer to Curtis 2010-05-18T11:25:00Z

It was Wretzky who played bass on Siamese Dream, which sold more than six million copies worldwide, and hit number four on the UK charts. Smashing Pumpkins bassist claims she appeared on Siamese Dream cover 2011-02-21T15:13:21Z

As he told Womack, his father taught him to play drums and bass, but it wasn't until their local church needed a guitar player that he picked up that instrument and became "borderline obsessed." Jazz guitarist Dan Wilson on urgency in "Eleanor Rigby" and what genius actually looks like 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

The four parts - treble, alto, tenor and bass - sit on the side assigned to the part, facing inward. Shape note singers keep American tradition alive 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The nine-song "Amok" has an experimental groove, not much different from what you would expect from a Radiohead album, albeit one with a tad more funk thanks to Flea's sometimes adventurous bass lines. Yorke, Flea come together in supergroup debut 2013-02-27T15:13:09Z

“He’s the coolest bass player that ever walked the Earth, period, point blank,” said the singer and guitarist Steve Lacy, who’s featured on one of the new album’s singles, “Black Qualls.” He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

At Carnegie, the orchestra was powerful yet small, with no more than six double basses and 12 first violins before the Ninth. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

A third set whose brand name I forget was heaviest on the bass, reminiscent of the Beats by Dre brand, which Apple is in the process of buying. Review: Equalizer apps work better than Clari-Fi 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The opera centers on the confrontation between religion and science, first explored in a duet between Abel and the peddler, charismatically rendered by the bass Frank Basile. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Blending skittering machine beats with musicians playing harp, bass and strings, “Cosmogramma” is a marriage of 21st-century technology and 1960s West Coast psychedelic experimentation, sounding at times like a futuristic take on free jazz. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z

Having led their previous bands, taking a supporting role was a bit of an adjustment at first — not to mention Phil sliding from guitar to bass — but it was fun and the stakes were low. Backing Brandi: How the Hanseroth twins and Brandi Carlile became a Grammy-storming ‘misfit’ family 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Piano is not an effective dynamic for Times Square,” he told the basses, bumping them a notch louder at one point. Make Music New York: ‘The New Rule’ at Make Music New York 2012-06-23T00:22:58Z

The music, most of all, brought back the era: Guns N’ Roses; Wall of Voodoo; Kate Bush, slowed down into a voice-of-the-devil bass. Dance Review: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Yvonne Meier at Abrons - Review 2012-01-16T23:04:56Z

These days, the women like to go fishing together — catching bass and feasting on Howard’s peanut butter and raw garlic sandwiches. The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Look for white-fleshed fish such as halibut, sea bass or cod, preferably about two inches thick. Steamed Fish, Swimming in Flavor 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

But the string bass is also the lowest of the orchestra’s stringed instruments, and bears aural associations of masculinity. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Pushing another slider caused winds to squawk like dinosaur-sized geese; another brought the illusion of a brass band marching through the box seats with cinematic magnificence; another turned the bass drum into thunder. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

Boat and bank anglers are catching some bass. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

The core Algiers band — with Fisher on nearly every instrument; Ryan Mahan primarily on synthesizers and bass; Lee Tesche on guitars and Matthew Tong on drums — uses its physical and technological virtuosity almost paradoxically. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

If anybody wants to be playing the guitar, the harmonica, the drums, the bass, the keyboards — well, it’s all there. Jimmy Page reflects on Led Zeppelin’s legacy and its sound 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Another summer meal is the sea bass dish. Jessie James Decker serves up advice on food and feeding a family 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

We kept it very simple in terms of offense, just myself, a drummer and a bass player - three of us laying the basic track down. Dwight Yoakam to release '3 Pears' on Sept. 18 2012-07-19T10:39:08Z

Josh Dun’s drums and Mr. Joseph’s bass pound on “Jumpsuit,” pausing to give Mr. Joseph space to anxiously sing about the nervousness and necessity of moving forward. The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

And there were several unaccompanied bass solos, sparse and engrossing, that brought a welcome ebb and flow to the pacing of the set. Music Review: Derrick Hodge and Aaron Parks at 92YTriBeCa - Review 2011-10-28T23:42:57Z

How You Kill Me is also full of pathos; "Just as I sing like a bird, you shoot me down for your fun," she accuses, over brushed cymbals and hypnotic bass. KT Tunstall: Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon – review 2013-06-06T22:00:01Z

After moving on to another bluegrass ensemble he returned to Los Angeles, where he’d pick up the bass guitar this time and join the Byrds. Chris Hillman’s musical life from Bryds to Burritos and more 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Tweedy stays out of her way, putting her voice front-and-center among acoustic guitars, drums, bass, and backup singers. Mavis Staples Spreads Love and Joy on One True Vine 2013-06-26T09:45:05Z

Mandolin, bass, fiddle and guitars wrapped the songs in a lattice-work of stringed instruments. Concert review: Fleet Foxes at Chicago Theatre 2011-10-01T05:31:00Z

Youth's bass and keyboards appear alongside Gilmour's lap steel and electric guitar, described in a press release as, er, "discernible". New Orb album to feature Pink Floyd's David Gilmour 2010-08-19T11:34:00Z

The double basses lined up in the choir stalls high above the orchestra, miles away from the rest of the strings. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T11:27:14Z

As the other dancers performed solos — embodying the sound of the piano, the bass and the drums — their musical visualizations, however unrestrained, hit overly simplistic notes. Review: Spinning and Toiling, but Not Finding Coltrane’s Sacred Love 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hyman, along with his high-finesse renditions of Scott Joplin ragtime and Fats Waller stride, dutifully inserted a tango bass line into “All the Things You Are.” Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

“I’m a very fussy eater,” Ms. Beckham told Ms. Rogers, after reciting a recipe for roasted marinated sea bass. Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

One day last month, in a small recording studio on Ninth Avenue, he sat with a bass player and pianist to make a demo of “Dragons.” Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Busier Than Ever at 91 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

He lifted its bass line for a song that made him want to dance. Riff: ‘Thriller’ and the Lessons of the Mega-Super-Album 2012-09-02T03:22:06Z

Jaar has talked about his desire to create "rhythmic anguish": music that you can dance to, with uncomplicated joy, but which is full of melancholy "above the bass". Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z

The band’s lineup changed over the years, but its instrumentation and sound remained basically the same: a solid, driving groove provided by guitar, keyboards, bass and drums, punctuated by staccato blasts from a horn section. Leroy Bonner of the Ohio Players Dies at 69 2013-01-29T04:53:02Z

It’s noticeable here how little attention the bass player Flea’s prodigious playing gets. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

Dusty Hill, the quiet, bearded bass player who made up one third of ZZ Top, among the best-selling rock bands of the 1980s, has died at his home in Houston. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Phil bass players under a  tent. Riding the escalators from the parking garage to the hall, visitors also encountered 24 singers carrying large bells, intoned to wondrous effect under the new “Nimbus” cloud art installation. The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

A long clarinet elegy at the score’s heart, and an elegant bass clarinet theme, shadowed by a xylophone, were particularly memorable. Music Review: Idiosyncratic Pairings on a Wide Playing Field 2011-03-23T22:27:32Z

The musically innovative tune had no bass line. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The music is slow, portentous and sometimes very striking indeed, especially when it builds into a kind of crippled funeral march, with thudding bass drums, tolling gongs and insistent synthesiser chords. London Contemporary Orchestra – review 2013-05-27T16:39:04Z

Do the steadily building beats of bass drum under the choir in one crucial passage represent progress — the choir’s march forward — or the ominous forces pursuing it? Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

The choral “oohs” on the introduction, thudding bass and plodding piano built into the production owe more to the way hip-hop reimagines gospel than to traditional gospel arrangements. How gospel and rap finally found each other and created a new batch of hits 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

His voice deepened to a rich bass, and he started to understand what girls were. This couple met when they joined the school choir. More than 70 years later, they’re still in rhythm. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

And I already know people are going to say, “Oh, these guys found the bass line!” How Christine and the Queens Wrote One of the Best Songs of 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the final movement, the vocal soloists were well matched and professional, though Christopher Purves's bass felt a bit routine. OAE/Volkov 2010-04-12T20:45:00Z

McIntyre, possibly spooked by the isolation and atmosphere of terminal gloom, was eventually joined in the studio by a bunch of equally sorrowful innocents on bass, guitar and drums. New band of the day ? No 772: Little Girls 2010-04-23T12:02:00Z

TV series are rituals, and those opening notes feel quasi religious, like an “om,” the one true bass line thrumming under eternity. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

There's subtlety as well as grand-standing bass on here too, from pretty opener Flying Into Tokyo to the agile wit of Ping Pong – the album standout for me, twinkling along with irresistible, shuffling danceability. Magnetic Man ? Magnetic Man: exclusive album stream 2010-10-06T12:03:00Z

During “River Dreams,” the album’s centerpiece and Glenn-Copeland’s first new song in 16 years, he chants wordlessly and reassuringly over gossamer synthesizers and an upright bass’s ostinato strut. Listeners Found Beverly Glenn-Copeland. It Was Time. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s set to a skulking bass line and percussion that wouldn’t wake the neighbors, enjoying the tease, the buildup and a nearly vanished 21st-century experience: privacy. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Thank you for Sabotage bass riff and many other great grooves. Reaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys 2012-05-05T01:46:03Z

Driven along by the Roots' fearsome bass and drums, many of the tracks have a raw, driving feel along the lines of Gaye's Inner City Blues. John Legend & the Roots: Wake Up! 2010-10-14T22:20:00Z

They went by pretty fast, backed up by guitar, bass and drums. The Not-Its!' new release is a keeper 2011-06-27T22:03:05Z

The Dalles Pool – The few boat anglers sampled did well on walleye and bass when including fish released. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing reports 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

He also played bass and wrote some of the group’s songs, though the Grass Roots’ best-known material was written primarily by nonmembers. Rob Grill, Lead Singer of the Grass Roots, Dies at 67 2011-07-13T03:06:59Z

With its bright, liquid beats, through its chest-jouncing bass line, “Party/After Party” crescendoes into a staggering amalgamation of popular revelry and high art, and a vindication of Black electronic music’s inheritances and influence. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

He gradually realized the bass was his musical calling. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

All the instruments finally achieve an ominous consonance, with a dark, subtle undercurrent in the double bass. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z

The low bass stuff is something we’ve been trying to accomplish ever since the band started.” Music: Korn and Dubstep, Not-So-Unlikely Marriage 2011-12-09T22:18:15Z

Their father, Wally, was a working musician and Joey said they grew up hunkered under barroom tables watching their dad play bass guitar. Bros. Landreth: Southern country roots from Manitoba, Canada | Concert prevew 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Suddenly we're all heat and motion, caught in an updraft of euphoric noise, thumping bass: sunlight dancing on waves. Phoenix at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-30T23:51:00Z

Ms. Rachvelishvili was born in 1984 in Tbilisi to creative parents: Her mother was a folk and ballet dancer, her father a bass guitarist and song composer. A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Standing betwixt a bass drum and a snare, Epworth whacks the heartbeat rhythm of Two for Joy, her voice soaring skywards. Mary Epworth – review 2013-04-04T17:08:03Z

Basically we had a drum track, we had a bass track, we had a couple guitar tracks and we had a keyboard track or two. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z

Jonathan Moritz, another saxophonist, and Jason Stein, a bass clarinetist, take guest turns on two tracks apiece. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z

They draw it, too, from the chug of a band content to let guitar, bass and drums do the work, a band endorsed by Bruce Springsteen, a band that covers Tom Petty. The Gaslight Anthem: 'Fans look up to us. That's creepy' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

His show's bass note of opportunities missed strikes at the heart. Lenny Henry ? review 2011-02-21T21:45:00Z

At their weekend parties, a loud bass penetrated our shared wall starting at 10:30 p.m. Single, Unemployed and Suddenly Myself 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

She wears glasses and colorful clothes and plays electric bass. Esperanza Spalding, effortlessly reaching new heights at 9:30 Club 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Czukay, who ambidextrously doubled on bass and live electronics, would then splice together the most potent parts of the recordings. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Falls said, referring to a moment in the “Abduction” when a naked, overweight bass jumped up and down on a bed throughout his opening aria. Calixto Bieito Directs Williams?s ?Camino Real? in Chicago 2012-03-02T18:30:03Z

There is no snare, just puffs of bass for a kick drum and finger-tap bongos; it's all restrained and textural, perfect for Sax G's dancing flow. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z

With Ms. Cherry, the songs often start with a skeletal beat and just a note or a bass line from the keyboards, then darken and thicken as they go. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Much of the choral writing is ecstatic — not merely energetic — with soaring, fortissimo soprano lines and rich, vigorous bass passages slicing through the often dense, percussion-heavy orchestration. A Carnegie Hall commemoration for Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Connors’s bruising guitar and Clarke’s distorted bass drift into psych-rock territory — but even when the keyboardist lays back a bit, his steady chords remain the heartbeat of the ensemble. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Dalles Pool – Boat anglers are catching some bass and walleye. State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fish checks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The other three members add further vocals, bass, drums, piccolo and vibraphone. Samson & Delilah: And Straight on Till Morning ? review 2011-01-13T22:41:00Z

“I was really ready to learn, to see what the great basses do onstage.” Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z

Specifically, Weiss is on fire throughout this record, back there maneuvering through beats and rhythms that are as fresh and breathtaking as Tucker and Brownstein's dueling bass and guitars. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Often, percussion sounds are spattered intermittently around a bass line, or they tick steadily like a suspense-film soundtrack — more haunted house than dance floor. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The band added a third trophy when Marshall Wilborn won bass player of the year for the second time. Dailey & Vincent win entertainer of the year 2010-10-01T03:44:00Z

He positioned his big bass into the microphone so as to use the vast amphitheater as a resonating chamber and produce earth-moving low notes. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

"My Moon My Man" was also electric, swelling with a heart-thrumming bass and driven by the same slap/stomp beat that backboned the whole night. Feist electrifying Thursday at Moore Theatre 2011-11-18T18:42:04Z

This is the land where bass and guitar amount to the same thing, just sources of a low, squelched riffs, reaching back to the early ’90s, to music by Big Black and the Melvins. Playlist: Surfboards, Harmonies and Sheet Metal 2010-09-19T20:25:00Z

I watched the skipper of my boat casting his eye over cuttlefish, squid, lobster, crab, mussels, sole, sea bass, scallops, anchovies and more, wondering what we should have for lunch when back on board. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

Computer speakers and MP3 compression, like the transistor radios of yore, can’t do full justice to music that relies on deep bass and rich combinations of instruments. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Because while Philip Larkin was waiting for the sex bus to arrive, my mates and I were desperate to hear loud bass. Let's raise a glass to lovely, swampy, droning, booming bass 2013-05-29T19:00:00Z

What you hear here — the inky throb of the bass, the rattling kick drum, the sibilant tape — is not what that audience heard. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

This easy-as-pie collaboration with the D.J.-producer R3hab is an update of Freak Nasty’s “Da Dip,” one of the seminal songs of Atlanta bass music, and a bona fide mid-1990s pop hit as well. Florence + the Machine’s Conflicted Coronation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

One overlong passage saw Ms. Anderson’s speaking voice distorted and transformed into the unctuous bass of a cartoon priest. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

He returns to the scene of his deeply satisfying new album, “Midnight Melodies” — improbably, his first-ever live recording — with the same unassailable rhythm team of Curtis Lundy on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. Jazz Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Presentation and technique, whether sea bass with cockles and samphire or an asparagus salad, are better at Upstairs London than anywhere else in this neighborhood. | Eat in Brixton 2012-07-13T19:48:14Z

Growing up in Maryland, he began playing music when he was 5, studying classical music and learning six instruments: violin, cello, upright bass, piano, guitar and mandolin. | Lo-Fang: Lo-Fang Embraces His New Success 2014-02-20T16:20:22Z

This is Skrillex nodding to his early dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass roots or, more specifically, the roots of his roots. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z

Instead of overloading the track with detonative bass and synthesizer filigree, Diplo seems to understand that a country song is a story — and he lets Cam tell it. Perspective | Did Cam and Diplo make the century’s first great EDM-country song? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

No doubt every choral bass secretly dreams of delivering this hit number to a capacity Albert Hall. Handel's Messiah/ The Sixteen; Messiah: 500 Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ? review 2010-12-26T00:04:02Z

When we perform it live, it sounds way better than an electric bass. Even Meghan Trainor's Mom Is Tired of "All About That Bass" 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams expertly moves both that melody and bass line through the ensemble before the frenetic final movement, tellingly titled “Roadrunner.” Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z

The model for this moment is clear: Very softly, in the cellos and basses, is how the “Ode to Joy” is introduced in Beethoven’s Ninth. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

There are moments where Moore gets it right, such as “Leaving,” when he actually allows himself to orchestra and produce, opposed to just creating more fodder for the bass starved, festival goers. Skrillex: One Dubstep Forward, Two Dubsteps Back 2013-01-17T17:00:48Z

“She would never let anybody help her with her amplifier or her bass,” Ms. Russell said. Carline Ray, an Enduring Pioneer Woman of Jazz, Dies at 88 2013-07-28T01:59:59Z

Released as part of the company’s Focus Music series, it’s a gently undulating wave, occasionally punctuated by deep reverberations of bass. Meditation Apps Want Us to Chill Out. Musicians Are Happy to Help. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

East Coast oysters and farmed striped bass were conspicuously common. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Fialkowska's refined delicacy suits this arrangement admirably, forcing us to revisit the music afresh and listen again to the clean lines of accompaniment delineated so strikingly by string quartet and double bass. Mozart: Piano Concertos 13 & 14 – review 2013-03-03T00:05:11Z

Certainly there’s an anger to it, but it’s also the first drum and bass take. Rock sideman steels the show: Jason Narducy comes off the road and produces a second album as solo act Split Single 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

They sat on their pond, fishing largemouth bass, naked. Josh Brolin Fears the Summer of Josh Brolin 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

He just grinned and gave his bass a few extra plucks. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z

Judging from the YouTube version of Fallin' in Love , the only crossover with Drake's single is both songs' opening bass riff. Playboy to sue Drake for copyright infringement 2010-06-29T14:32:00Z

Her band willfully ignores whatever passes for fashionable in current R&B, while down below, particularly in the rhythms and bass lines, there’s a strange, intricate undertow. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z

It used to be expected that four adventurists would join forces with a studio visionary to find new ways to present vocals, guitar, bass and drums. New band of the day ? No 1,270: Palma Violets 2012-05-17T15:51:27Z

Known mainly as their original bass player, he's also credited as co-writer and lead vocalist of their hit songs, "Take It to the Limit," "Try and Love Again," "Is it True?," Eagles founding member, Randy Meisner, dead at 77 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Because traditional Chinese string instruments play in the treble range, cellos and double basses join the vertically held gaohus and erhus to fill out the string section. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z

Around that drumming, bass and guitar and organ play a restricted number of chord choices, and electric sound assumes its own shapes, with rumbles and phase effects and vibrating microrhythms. The Week Ahead: June 24 — 30 2012-06-26T05:01:01Z

Performing in various ensembles and styles, he learned more instruments: guitar, bass, drums, brasses. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I spent Saturday and Sunday berating myself and trying to imagine a life without playing the guitar, bass, piano, or drums. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Chelsea Lee’s voice, gravelly on the edges, bends like a beam of light, piercing through hazy bass thumps. For D.C. pop band Shaed, the rock-and-roll dream is all about family 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the parallels with their heroes didn't end there: bass player Mike Alexander died unexpectedly during a Swedish tour in 2009, echoing Cliff Burton's untimely death in the same country 23 years previously. Together at last: Heavy metal's dream-ticket Big Four tour 2010-07-22T21:30:00Z

On the first track, “Palace,” airy chimes and restrained, flowery piano introduce a suite of tear-jerker horns and a throbbing bass drum. Antlers, fully mature now, to play Neumos | Concert preview 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

At one point, Randall Hawes, who plays bass trombone, ducked into the room and marveled at the clarity of the picture. Detroit Symphony Dives Headlong Into Streaming 2014-03-21T22:02:56Z

I normally would wear shorts and a T-shirt because I sweat a lot, but the bass player doubted that I would go out there with no shirt on. ‘Go Go Live’: An oral history of the genre’s biggest night 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

McCartney adds a bold melodic fluidity to his playing that burnishes his reputation as a pioneer of the electric bass, which sounds, at times, like a lead instrument. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

And while the duo deploys house music’s deep bass throbs and programmed kick drum and high-hats, the music is driven just as much by the syncopations of the interlocking parts above them. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z

In what might be the video’s climax, a slow-motion, smeary animation of a figure in a fluorescent ghillie suit starts raving to deep, pulsing bass. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Oh extracts a wide and somber sound from the upright bass. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He dialed his Korg M1 synthesizer to the next preset, landing on Organ 2, and replayed his bass line. Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Adkins has been a performer most of his life, beginning as the bass singer in a gospel group while he lived in Louisiana. Trace Adkins really is "Proud To Be Here" 2011-08-03T21:54:43Z

One critic described Marvin's work of the early 1970s as "subliminal bass running a mile deep". Marvin Isley obituary 2010-06-09T18:55:00Z

Even on some of the liveliest tracks — like “Behold the Deceiver,” with its weaving horns and bubbling riot of drums and percussion — the bass hardly wavers from a single incantatory phrase. Shabaka and the Ancestors Are Making Their Own Jazz History 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The production is light, with twinkling keyboards and springy bass — as ethereal as her lyrics are grounded. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

An electric bass line that creeps quickly across the carpet. The Playlist: Robyn’s Dance-Floor Weeper and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

There are a lot of songs where, say, the bass riff of “Day Tripper” is used, kind of a nod of appreciation. If Zeppelin did steal “Stairway”: “It would be like finding out the Beatles didn’t write ‘Sgt. Pepper’” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

All the records he made were beautiful examples of musicianship with melody, harmony and bass lines all there. Jeff Beck's mission to 'blow people away' 2011-03-31T15:37:05Z

She brought a lean backup band — keyboards, bass, drums — augmented with some recorded backup vocals, but she didn’t need any electronic help. Seinabo Sey Unfurls Soul-Pop Vocals at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Particularly beautiful is the Agnus Dei, in which the boys sing a melancholy line over an ostinato bass pattern in the organ, here played well by Frederick Teardo. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

He told me that their bass singer, Noel Fox, wanted to leave the road and stay home. The Oak Ridge Boys and their famous baritone are still going strong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Slide guitar, driving bass and drums is what they are in this persona. The songs they are a'changing for The Dylan Project 2011-08-16T10:10:41Z

On television, Mr. Pitman’s Danelectro bass guitar was heard for years on “The Wild Wild West.” Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Then the bass reappears, some chanting builds to a squawking wail, the music explodes, and Ms. Jackson laughs and sings, “Feels so good/When I think of you.” Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Beckii, meanwhile, receives gifts from her fans; one in particular sends her boxes of noodles and a Fender bass guitar for her 15th birthday. TV review: Beckii: Schoolgirl Superstar at 14 2010-08-13T05:45:00Z

Missy Mazzoli’s “Forgiveness Machine” opens with nervy, high-register oscillations that give way to grave bass interjections, before making space for a more relaxed treatment of melody in its middle section. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

He wanted a range of instruments that would share the specific tonal qualities of a violin instead of the varying sounds produced by the modern viola, cello and double bass. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z

“Greg was moving a bass line and I played the piano in back, and zap! It was there,” Mr. Emerson told the magazine Classic Rock in 2002. Greg Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bassist Ashley Suppa’s favorite bass line is the bouncy, melodic foundation of Paul McCartney’s “Silly Love Songs,” and there’s no cooler drum intro for Brooke Colucci than Zep’s “When the Levee Breaks.” Rock’s saviors? Ladies of Plush rock harder than most anyone 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“I was really excited that David Byrne was bringing something else to Broadway,” said Ray Cetta, a bass player and union member who has occasionally played in the band for “Chicago.” Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

A dinner of grilled beef tenderloin and sauteed sea bass was served just after 4 p.m., with barely a fraction of the ballroom filled. Your ticket inside the Golden Globes ceremony 2011-01-17T01:02:08Z

It grooves, without bass or drums or anything else; in every song Ms. Welch and Mr. Rawlings seem to find a fundamental rhythm that describes them both on some cardiological level. New Music 2011-06-27T22:41:28Z

“He did everything with the bass: He danced with it, he drummed on it, he scraped it, he coached all kinds of amazing sounds out of it.” Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

And her excellent band — Rod Fleeman on guitar, Ed Howard on bass, Lewis Nash on drums and Bob Sheppard on reeds and woodwinds — buoyed her singing with robust sophisticated arrangements featuring Mr. Sheppard. Music Review: A Sharp Eye for Songs in the Key of Now 2011-06-03T22:14:02Z

Black cod, rockfish and halibut are excellent choices from the Pacific; from the Atlantic, sea bass, grouper and snappers; red drum from the Gulf of Mexico. Conquering the Fear of Cooking Fish 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

He steers the song into a perfect landing, even as Mingus’s bass fades, sounding entirely exhausted. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

We talked about starting a band; they wanted me to play bass, even though I was the only one who hadn’t gauged his ears. Stealing from Blockbuster 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Glitch Mob: With a devotion to muscular synthetic beats and an almost Black Sabbath-like love of mesmerizing bass lines, the Los Angeles beat trio has been crafting dubstep-inspired tracks for the last eight years. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z

"She's our new best friend," says bass player Reid Perry, 23, the middle child of the trio. Talent scouts Gracie and Maggie McGraw can pick 'em 2011-06-16T20:11:15Z

Recent meals included a foie gras served in miso soup, and a sea bass served with red chicory and lemon crème fraîche. 36 Hours in Paris 2010-12-16T19:09:43Z

“Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response,” she says. Twerk? Yaka? Duffy? Buku? Big Freedia’s Guide to Bounce Music Slang 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

On one side of the conductor’s podium, at stage right, were instruments with indefinite pitches: bass, snare and conga drums, suspended cymbal and wood blocks. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

We demo-ed the song with Francis on guitar and bass and a drummer called Terry Williams who went on to be in Dire Straits. How we made: Bob Young and Francis Rossi on Caroline 2013-04-02T06:00:06Z

She began playing bass and singing with an all-female band in Havana before moving to New York in 1942 to continue her career. Correction: Obit-Perez Grillo story 2010-04-08T22:48:00Z

Art was basically a bass singer and baritone, but on some songs he had to come up a couple of steps and do some tenor-ing. The Impressions keep on pushing 2012-06-28T15:58:00Z

And the bass trombonist Douglas Purviance, whose tenure stretches back almost as long, is its manager. For the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Just This Once, Every Night Is Monday Night 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

After the disaster with Nirvana, now Everman was playing bass for his favorite Seattle band. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

Considering Michelle Dorrance’s virtuosity as a dancer — which in her medium, tap, is really a type of musician — perhaps it’s not surprising that she also sings and plays the bass. Review: Michelle Dorrance Happily Shares the Spotlight 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

Then as you know, tuna is very different than lobster, which is very different than even a white fish like halibut or striped bass. "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

On Black Sabbath's Lady Evil, Geezer Butler turns the arena into a living, breathing animal with his monster bass riffs. Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines – results 2012-10-11T12:35:46Z

But it started making these grinding bass sounds. 'I never knew walruses climbed that high': Our Planet's scariest moments 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

That set was in the small rock club Bowery Electric, where the bass and kick-drum were mixed at metal strength in the house sound system. Music Review: Ninth Annual Winter Jazzfest 2013-01-13T22:44:58Z

Haffar liked to grab a six-pack and fish for bluegills and bass in the small lake behind his father's home, said Mantas Matulis, a friend from high school. Families help suspects flee, face no charges 2011-11-01T23:56:40Z

The set starts with a slinking riff and African percussion backed by a swirl of keyboards, while on Owiny Techno the chanting vocals are matched against rumbling bass. Owiny Sigoma Band: Power Punch – review 2013-04-11T22:04:01Z

In “Quaerens me” a dense and shimmering choral texture grew gradually out of a few ashen notes played low in the basses. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z

Minutes later, the band was in the full thrust of “The Astral Dialogue,” a slow eruption from the new album, full of stern bass with a flash of flamboyant guitar. Agalloch, on Tour With ‘The Serpent & the Sphere’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The ensemble incorporates the signature sounds of the era, right down to the clarinets, bass saxophones, banjos and ukuleles. Album review: Bryan Ferry Orchestra, 'The Jazz Age' 2013-02-12T16:15:00Z

A double bass bow was laid out, ready for the evening’s performance; attached to it, wobbling in the air, were several black-and-white balloons. Martians, Dolls and a Cellist’s Dog: The Many Worlds of Jennifer Walshe 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

That’s all opera is: someone struggling to be heard in the face of a menacing bass. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The first, for bass flute and electronics, establishes a crepuscular atmosphere with spare, breathy gestures that grow more ragged, as if on the run. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

She sang against acoustic piano and upright bass, and tried for something new: her own lightly spunky voice in an unlikely context. Music Review: Miranda Lambert Brings ?Four the Record? to the Izod Center 2012-01-29T20:55:25Z

I was like: ‘Are you kidding me? There’s four notes in this bass part — that’s three too many in my opinion!’ Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

One track, wryly titled “Histrionics,” involves a chantlike melody assigned only to tenor saxophone, toms and bass drum. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z

If the stream of bodies slowly disappearing into the trees wasn’t a giveaway, the pulsating bass the second I cracked my car window certainly was. What it’s like going to shows as live music slowly comes back in Seattle 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Reich says the National combines “a classic rock ’n’ roll sound using repeated bass lines and pulses that have cropped up more recently. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Mr. Stetson, who plays alto, tenor and bass saxophones, recorded these songs live, in single takes, and emerged with songs that are elegantly composed and violently textured. Playlist: New Music by George Strait, Colin Stetson and N.O.R.E. 2013-05-24T22:50:59Z

If anything, it heightens it, as in “We are the same as we have always been,” a silken solo work for bass clarinet and electronics. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wuorinen supplied a twist of his own, setting the piece for bass voice and tuba, and giving both performers distinctive, often lyrical lines. Music Review: The Least and the Most in a Tanglewood Series 2011-08-04T21:33:12Z

For this year’s service, he rewrote bass and tenor parts for altos and sopranos so it would work with the choristers who agreed to sing. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

The repeating underlying passacaglia theme was set forth by harpsichord, cello and bass; there were duets, a pizzicato episode, violins questioning and answering each other, a lot of dynamic contrasts.  Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

It boasts meaty roles for bass and baritone, playing respectively the elderly knight of the sorrowful countenance and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza. Don Quichotte – review 2012-11-26T15:36:33Z

Pat Metheny's Question and Answer is reinvented as Question the Answer, there are pieces of swaying samba-jazz, and Tom Waits's Take It With Me is an uncluttered vehicle for his words, cello and bass. Georgia Mancio: Silhouette 2010-06-17T21:20:00Z

“What we do a lot, which I’ve never done with many conductors, is just to repeat a particular corner until it really is precise,” said Matthew McDonald, a principal bass player. The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The recordings were high-enough quality for an audio team to successfully restore them, and the final product’s sound is relatively clear, with only the two basses sometimes winding up muffled. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The title track layers overlapping parts for marimba, flute, clarinet and piano, before bass and drums kick in; “Dan:Ce” features an angular line played on flute, against the surge of a spring-loaded rhythm section. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z

They were so good at what they did, and they made me feel comfortable because they accepted my singing when I was really a bass player. For the Producers Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy, Collaboration Is Key 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stetson, mostly on bass saxophone, provided a low, gassy drone under coolly harmonized voices in those pieces and in “Breathing Black Ground,” by the violinist Sarah Neufeld, an Arcade Fire associate. Music Review: Colin Stetson and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Merkin Hall 2014-03-24T22:28:40Z

Josh McKay kept the band from flying completely into the ether with his bass work, tucking into drummer Moses Archuleta on songs like “No One’s Sleeping,” “Coronado” and the oddity “Disappearing Ink.” Review | Deerhunter brings its earsplitting sonic tingle to odd and wonderful 9:30 Club show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Her “Dies Irae,” from 1973, calls for eight double basses, a piano and a percussionist who pounds a large wooden box. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

As a bass drone rumbles and strobes strafe the room, the band's five members make a staggered arrival while drummer Jack Bevan thwacks a tom bathed in what sounds like God's own reverb. Foals – review 2013-03-06T18:11:08Z

When the bass Robert Pomakov, who sang the role, appeared in his sheik’s grab, many in the audience laughed out loud. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z

Jesse Blumberg — singing the bass arias, though more baritone than bass — made up in expressiveness what he may have lacked in low-lying heft. Review: Bach Passions in New York 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

This summer, there is improved food service and beefed-up subwoofers on the sound system for punchier bass. At the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang do their bit for cultural healing 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The local trio began at a gallop and barely slowed throughout the 45-minute set, save for a broken bass string and a bit of banter with the hometown crowd. Review | Flasher gallops its way through Black Cat concert 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

As the cocky lieutenant, Green used his cavernous bass voice with style and intelligence. Wolf Trap Opera’s ‘Carmen’ could use a little more of the original’s edginess

And while DJ EZ’s set was one for the ages, the club’s audiovisual system was equally impressive, delivering the sternum-rattling bass, crisp drums, thick vocals and perfectly timed light show that the set required. DJ EZ distills two decades of U.K. dance music into one memorable set

At Memorial Stadium, New York band Lewis Del Mar projected a dark, heavy sound anchored by staccato guitar riffs and booming bass, as lead singer Danny Miller drawled impassioned, throaty vocals. Weather’s mixed, but Bumbershoot crowds don’t seem to mind 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Page and Plant didn't hear the song for decades, though Led Zeppelin had incorporated a bass riff from one of Spirit's songs, "Fresh Garbage," in a medley, Anderson said. Origin of 'Stairway to Heaven' questioned at copyright trial 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The mid-range bass sound just captured the attention of young people. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z

On “Salt Skin” Mr. Cooke temporarily left his bank of synthesizers to pound on a bass drum. Music Review: Sweet, Ecstatic, Petulant and in Control 2010-10-04T21:07:00Z

Mr. DeFrancesco is a deeply authoritative musician, a master of rhythmic pocket, and of the custom of stomping bass lines beneath chords and riffs. Music Review: Frank and Personal Don?t Rule Out Commercial 2010-10-15T22:53:00Z

A gentle, yes, pulse — quick but not pounding — emerges behind it, soon joined by a meatier, lower throb in the electric bass. Review: Traces of Anachronism in an All-Steve Reich Evening 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

So I had to stand behind him, watch him play the bass notes, listen to the chord changes and just respond. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

The Trans Chorus’ bass and baritone sections are full of transgender women, and singing in the chorus has helped many of them accept and love their voices. Finding their true voices in the Trans Chorus 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Its starts with a  slow, torchy vocal with little more than backing coos and a deep bass tone to underline it. Listen: Lorde's new single from 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Opera,” with its low thrum and clattering drum programming, hints at 1990s drum and bass; “Iceland,” with its reflective, slow-moving melody, suggests the brooding side of indie-rock. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Trolling spinners and night crawlers at Goose Island will produce limit level smallmouth bass. Plenty of late-summer fishing choices at Potholes Reservoir 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

The band uses the same instrumentation: vibraphone, piano, bass, drums. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z

Wagner puts Walther’s song in slow motion, with different harmonic settings, and Sachs speaks over it with this descending bass line; the song is boring deeper into his conscience, into his soul. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Carroll, accompanied on bass by Jay Leonhart, played a pianistic Sondheim suite whose songs, connected by a recurring fragment of the “Night Waltz” from “A Little Night Music,” evoked a whirling dance of life. Music Review: Nightclub Tradition Gets a Jolt Of Youth 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

That hardly mattered to the crowd, who hung on his every bass drop. Flume brings booming beats and vague sentiment to the Paramount 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

She was backed by a crack band that provided keyboards, percussion and bass, and at times was joined by a male dancer. Review | As crowd roars, Robyn dances on her own at the Anthem 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Fleck and Washburn employed seven instruments, from a tiny ukulele banjo to the standard five-string versions both usually play up to larger baritone and bass banjos, creating an orchestral-like dimension to the songs. Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn combine much more than dueling banjos 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

He favors low instruments, with a pit band of two violas, cello, bass, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn and resonant percussion. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

A simple bass beat, a tinny guitar, and finally, singing. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

As it ends, each story is submerged in cacophony by Colin Stetson on bass saxophone and Eyvind Kang on viola, with Anderson's words lost not to death but to the exhilaration of noise. Delusion 2010-04-15T21:40:00Z

The band slowly filled in the space around a single, clinking bottle: flickers of horn, blankets of percussion, a striding bass line, shards of guitar. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

“Lights of Town” quotes the “Baby Just Cares for Me” bass and piano and feels, along with several other songs and the cover art, like something from the first few seasons of “Mad Men.” Get in the holiday mood with Ne-Yo, Lea Michele and Chicago 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“A fan once coined us as a heartfelt rock band,” says Garrison Burgess, the drummer who has lately also been playing bass. The Band Camino seizes 2021 as the year they break out big 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Everything but the bass, including drumbeats, counterpoint, tunes and words, was pushed to the periphery. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

It was written and sung by Ray Davies, but its impact was mostly due to Dave's fuzz guitar riff, underpinned by Quaife's bass line, which influenced a generation of budding rock musicians. Pete Quaife obituary 2010-06-25T15:45:00Z

“Do you want the sea bass baked in salt or served simply grilled?” he asked on our first night. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

At this show the mood was consistent between the blocks of old songs and blocks of new songs: there were distractingly thick bass lines, slight hints of the blues and gutbucket soul in the arrangements. Music Review: An Outkast Out There by Himself 2010-09-07T21:50:00Z

With the absence of a prominent lead guitar, the arrangements emphasize small ensembles of bass, strings, bare guitar plucking, and — especially — Warren Ellis’ minimalist loops, described by Cave as “its tiny, trembling heartbeat.” Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z

“Jasmine” remains a stone-cold soul classic, with coy vocals and a bass line that’s sensual and unctuous. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

We caught bluegills and chubs and suckers and the occasional largemouth bass, none of them big and none of them safe to eat because of the pollution in the river. Game over, conservative friend 2012-11-17T00:30:00Z

Perhaps before they even finished recording: The twitchy track bounces tightly wound strings off a modulating bass line and keeps building until its final seconds. Pop & Rock Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lopez throttles the bass, plucking and bowing it with relentless fervor; Mr. Baczkowski, who’s based in Buffalo, uses effects pedals to amplify, distort and detonate the sound of his tenor saxophone. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Morphing through nearly nine minutes, the track struts on Ndegeocello’s synthesizer bass lines; twinkles and hovers with Brandee Younger’s harp; and sprints toward the end with double time drumming, headed somewhere new. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Another hallmark of Mr. Hyla’s style was his exquisite attention to the timbre of instruments, including those — like bass clarinet and hammered dulcimer — typically neglected by concert composers. Lee Hyla, 61, Who Mixed Rock and Jazz Into Classical Works, Dies 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

No track masters the familiar “Gaucho” balancing act — between clinky rhythm guitar, bobbing bass, interleaved horn arrangements and whispery female vocals — better than “Jack of Speed,” a lament for a hopeless addict. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

She’s the calm center, the ground bass, and though she acknowledges the looser culture around her with a shy shimmy, the influence flows more strongly in the opposite direction. Review: Twyla Tharp’s Enduring ‘You Can Have It All’ Vision 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Still, Ms. Marling toys with aspects of seduction in the song’s arrangement, which leans heavy on a sinuous electric bass, and in the video, which she directed herself. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Lights In,” which pits falsetto yearning against corrosive guitars, anchored again by another massive Goreas bass line. Album review: Besnard Lakes, 'Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO' 2013-04-01T20:15:00Z

Listening to Fraser with Free, you hear the bass being given equal space and time, all the time. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Or, as the guitar and bass pick through quick, interlocking staccato triplets, a question fit for a logician: “Do you think I might be lying in the next sentence?” Review: Weaves Brings Sonic Slapstick in Shifting Tempos to the CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Some rode bass lines with guitar interjections, anticipating the Police as well as punk; some were garage-rock tirades against ex-girlfriends and politicians. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z

“North Hero” is Mr. Morrissey’s second instrumental jazz release, and at times — as on a track like “Hands Crystals Anderson,” with its throbbing bass line and motorik beat — it does call indie-rockish energies to mind. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z

His resonant bass ricochets off the planks of the machine as he imbues Alberich with dignified authority. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Deep rocking bass tones become the earth on which empires collapse in a flourish. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z

He played bass in an Army band, graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and moved to Cleveland, where he got a job with the American Greetings Corporation. Tom Wilson, Cartoonist Behind ?Ziggy,? Dies at 80 2011-09-21T04:30:45Z

He went on to play bass with the jazz pianist Emiliano Salvador. Juan Carlos Formell, Buoyant Heir of Cuban Musical Legacy, Dies at 59 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The album marks new beginnings, both on a different record label and their first release as a four-piece, following the death of bass player Gerard Smith. TV On The Radio: Back and tuned in 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

But he really, really didn't like the bass. Interpol: Carlos D 'really, really didn't like the bass' 2010-08-12T11:52:00Z

His official biography tells how he bought his first bass guitar for £5 after a bassoon he played in an orchestra was stolen. Ex-Japan bassist Mick Karn dies 2011-01-05T14:08:55Z

I couldn't afford to go with him, I only had three strings on my bass – but he said he'd come back and get me to play with him. How we made: Michael Lang and Billy Cox on Woodstock 2012-11-26T18:33:11Z

Although the occasional restrained bass works well, this transitional album works best with just voice and guitar: Rinse Me Down would sound better without any drums, never mind machine gun rolls. Bombay Bicycle Club: Flaws 2010-07-09T00:00:00Z

I’m on the road with him as well as with our tour manager and our bass player and our drummer. On the road with Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Outside of “Harlem Speaks,” Parker doesn’t play bass much on the new set. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now I don’t want striped bass cooked any other way. Sushi and Kaiseki in an Exceptional One-Man Show 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

What about the poor bass players, so often overshadowed? Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines 2012-10-04T21:00:00Z

First violins sit on the right, and second violins sit on the left, with the double basses on either side of the strings. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

He moved methodically, in time to the song’s pulsating bass line; he shouted out to bystanders — “Ladies, you want a picture? Come over here, baby. Come here” — to make sure he got noticed. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmán performed the song at one of the raid siren locations, accompanied by pizzicato bass and a lyrically swooning violin stationed nearby. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

He became depressed because he couldn't play his bass at all for a year after his last public performance in September 2011 at a Los Angeles club. Grammy honor lifts spirits of ailing jazz legend 2013-02-08T16:44:08Z

A quick bass drum rhythm — still quiet — near the end of two bars announces Chick Corea’s entrance on the electric piano. How “Bitches Brew” blew our minds: Remembering the first time I heard Miles Davis’ masterpiece 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Nocturnal,” about a femme fatale with a “desolate interior,” explodes out of a skulking bass line with distorted guitar and shards of dissonant piano. New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z

He knows what to do with a cohesive band — and on this one-nighter he will have one, with Kevin Hays on piano, Orlando le Fleming on bass and Jimmy Macbride on drums. Jazz Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

While the bass and drum parts from the demos were well developed, there was a translation process for Mr. Lindner, who used a total of nine keyboards with various distortion and effects pedals. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Had you hailed a cab by the time Matthew Muckey’s honeyed trumpet drew dazzling ornaments around Matthew Rose’s soaring bass in “The trumpet shall sound”? Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z

There was heckling, and before the end of Palma Violets' set the bass player was somehow put in a headlock by a spectator. Powered by pure passion: the music venue that runs on love alone 2012-11-25T00:05:30Z

This version is arranged as a march that keeps cresting: big drums, wagging piano, bass that vamps. The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

A bass clarinet's startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Jam was an only child and recalled catching Lewis seated on a bed, playing Kool & the Gang on a bass guitar and thinking, “That dude needs to be in my life.” Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

It turned out all you needed to do was stick an immense, undeniable pop song over the top of the half-speed beats and wobbling bass after all. Katy B: On a Mission ? review 2011-03-31T14:29:01Z

It is to Siegfried’s Funeral Music that “Funeral Song” audibly refers, with those guttural utterances of the cellos and basses, first creeping up by chromatic steps and then shuffling back down. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Their ability to tell a story that speaks to the times I live in while also giving me that hammer bass line is so important. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Unlikely Relationship With Guns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

It also beautifully captures the Bolet sound, with its rich basses and crystalline trebles. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

The contrast between the fierce bass and Yorke’s deceptively languid vocal give the song its essential tension. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z

The mixing is sharp, with Ms. Everdell’s voice placed squarely within a grid of clattering drums, muddy bass and pealing guitars. Music Review: Mining Multiple Sources for Synthetic Character but an Organic Effect 2010-12-14T06:00:18Z

To complement the stormy symbols and driving bass line, Mr. Kinney, the director, shows us snowstorms, lightning and a steady ominous rain. Review: ‘Reconfiguration,’ a Theater-Concert Hybrid With the Band Other Lives 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

He was torn, worried about getting too close to Danno and getting far enough away from the thump thump bass noise that hurt his ears, hurt his mind. It's All Right I Have a List That Helps to Make Everything Clear and It's Real Easy to Follow by Ian Beck - short story 2012-11-14T12:09:04Z

A big "trap" track - heavy bass, 808 snares, speeding hats and a hooky noise. Basement Jaxx's favourite tracks 2012-12-15T00:05:30Z

The result: Kiah’s country-blues phrasing bent around a lurching groove, with the guttural buzz of Berg’s bass harmonica substituting for bass guitar. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Authority opens with eerie sounds, dark bass, martial drums and a repeated micro-sample of the "I" bit of Kelis's "I hate you so much right now!" New band of the day: Lulu James (No 1,461) 2013-02-27T16:57:00Z

The formidable bass Günther Groissböck, a revelation as the boorish, entitled Baron Ochs when this production was new, returned to the role on Friday. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

He has a sparkling new album, “In Good Company,” that features the same partners found here, Essiet Essiet on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. Jazz Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The sonic details of the track — booming acoustic bass, shimmery autoharp, slouchy drum beat, sparse electric guitar — shroud Mr. Walker in a self-contained haze, which feels about right. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

These songs are about caress, from the lyrics to the fatty bass lines to the lustless singing. Critic’s Notebook: Miley Cyrus, Secret Weapon, Blows the Smooth Out of the Summer 2013-08-30T00:01:48Z

“Husbands” builds unbearable momentum behind racing guitar, drums and bass. Album review: Savages. 'Silence Yourself' 2013-05-06T15:28:00Z

Prodded by a funky beat and pelted by staggered, syncopated guitar and bass notes, he can’t expect good news. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The guitar rings, bass struts and choruses of piano riffs swell. Pickwick wasn't always a soul band 2011-12-01T22:00:05Z

But the best choreography is for the jugglers alone: A simple knee bend added into a juggling pattern adjusts its visual harmony like a change in bass note or a fresh color on those rings. Review: Gandini Juggling’s Drab ‘Spring’ Mixes It Up With Dancers 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Saxophone, trombone and violin all tangled as the bass and vibraphone built a dicey polyrhythm underneath. 30 Years Later, Three Bands From New York’s Downtown Scene Unite for One Night 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Ms. Marling sings with lean, responsive accompaniment: cello, violin, keyboards, bass and drums. Review: On Laura Marling’s ‘Short Movie,’ Songs of Restlessness and Solitude 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

There’s more threat and big bass in “Love Is Lost”: “It’s the darkest hour, you’re 22, the voice of youth, the hour of dread.” David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z

Ms. Sumner, with a hefty bass slung across her slim shoulders, was captivating in an androgynous white button-down, black pants cropped just above the ankle and shiny oxfords. Scene City: Ferragamo Celebrates Release of New Fragrance 2012-03-21T22:28:02Z

The Ramones played four chords and took their Marshall cabinets and jacked everything up to 10 with bass, treble, mid, gain, volume. | Skrillex: Electric Flight Orchestra 2012-08-05T03:00:03Z

Some users may hear a higher pitch; others, a higher bass. 5 Headphones for the Frequent Flier 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Closing with a heroic heavy metal dugga-dugga-dugga-dugga, “Sunshine of Your Love” was likely the first hit rock song to feature a single drummer hammering away on two bass drums. Ginger Baker’s Essential Songs: Listen to 15 Tracks 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Green often performs with a full band, placing his own bass work at center stage; he pares down the ensemble show for this spinning set. Pop & Rock Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

This Saturday, five members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s double bass section will convene, bare-footed, inside a giant sack of stretchy, shimmering white fabric in Walt Disney Concert Hall. Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Other artists taking part in the concert include tenor Matthew Polenzani, bass James Morris and soprano Anna Christy, three of the stars of Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann," which will open the season Oct. Hear Renee Fleming sing for free, and no jacket needed (unless it's chilly) 2011-05-04T21:43:00Z

Bands also used a lot of instruments not normally associated with rock: French horn, vibraphone, celesta, violin, cello, tuba, euphonium, pedal steel, autoharp and acoustic bass. Sasquatch! Fest a heady brew of old and new 2011-05-31T01:08:05Z

Longtime bartender and buoyant bass lord Mark Mattrey has taken over the Wallingford funk haven and plans to retain the musician-owned hangout’s rep as a hub for some of the most serious players in Seattle. Shake-ups take place at 2 Seattle music venues as they reopen after nearly 2 years 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

It has a punchy drum sound, woozy electric bass and guitar work that toggles between sharp and slithery. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

In addition to Bryan, the trio includes Rhydian Dafydd on bass and backing vocals and Matt Thomas on drums and percussion. A formidable British sound 2013-03-21T20:36:16Z

Therefore, it was a treat to dust off the knackered Encore bass last Saturday, to partake in a good friend's new musical extravaganza. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: My stint in Sonic Youth, and other fun-packed fabrications 2010-04-08T14:10:00Z

He recorded extensively on Strata-East Records, a musician-owned label, and founded and directed the New York Bass Violin Choir, a troupe of seven basses, sometimes accompanied by piano or saxophone. Bill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Composer, Is Dead at 94 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Dylan’s band included an accordion player and, for many songs, an upright bass player. Road warrior Bob Dylan returns to stage — at least on film 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z

Besides playing electric piano, Cole holds down the bottom end with her keyboard bass lines. Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag 2012-07-15T06:26:00Z

Around them, busy drums and bass whip up an urgent undercurrent, while Jack Wylie's soprano sax floats hauntingly on top. Portico Quartet/Penguin Cafe ? review 2011-02-09T19:30:01Z

Mr. Stevens rings in the record with a concert at Nublu, at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, featuring Mr. Doob on drums and Zach Brown on bass. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The powerful bass Morris Robinson made an imposing yet trustworthy Sarastro, the spiritual leader of the temple. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

It came from our original bass player, Paul Arnold, who left to become a doctor in Canada, and we barely knew what zombies were. The Zombies resurrect their famous album 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The woozy trumpet is as much part of the refreshed sound as an upright double bass – slapped so hard it shakes the building. Imelda May ? review 2011-02-13T22:31:00Z

He also performed with bass and drums and, on occasion, unaccompanied. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Grilling striped bass is my favorite way to cook the fish because the skin takes on a char that goes well with other strong flavors like oregano-laden chimichurri sauce. | A Chef in the Field: Striped Bass 2013-07-29T16:02:44Z

Boccherini, a virtuoso cellist, was dedicated to advancing the cause, upgrading the cello’s status from bass line accompanist to equal partner. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic With Riccardo Muti and Carter Brey 2010-04-15T22:16:00Z

Coloring the score are the sounds of bells, whistling, birdlike cries and the growl of a low bass voice. What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

These are many of the records that Herc used in the nascent days of hip-hop, where he began to experiment with isolating bass lines and other instrumental segments of songs, and segueing them together. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Did you spot Joey Ramone on last night’s episode? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Trojan lug their bass bins to the south coast tomorrow for this all-dayer hosted by local bass enthusiasts Route 2 Roots. Clubs picks of the week 2011-07-22T23:07:50Z

Robson's orchestrations make good use of Lockrane's concert, alto and bass flutes and Turner's cool tenor sax, which he also pairs with his own clean guitar lines. Phil Robson's IMS Quintet ? review 2011-01-20T18:24:04Z

Just under an hour earlier, he had lurched into a lesser-known standard, backed in spartan form by bass and drums. Music Review: Sticking to One Tune, but Not Stuck 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z

Nina Osegueda’s Mrs. Lovett woos Todd with a “By the Sea” that features sinister, jabbing bass lines and monstrous guitar chords. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

This production’s Ochs is the Austrian bass Günther Groissböck, who is 40, square-shouldered and imposing, which lends complexity to the character. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The horns first appear playing in unison with the bass line in the second half of the verse, emphasising the lift in energy. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

The most surprising musical moment was her rendition of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” accompanied only by bass. Review: Lauren Fox’s Nostalgic Tribute to Groupie Muses 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Stoller performed another form of magic — the dominant bass line — on King's second solo hit, "Stand by Me." Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z

Osmin, the pasha’s overseer and the guardian of the harem, dominates “Abduction” with extravagant musical rages that reach down to the depths of the bass vocal range. Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

There are four violas, instead of violins, and no cellos or basses. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z

The guy on the bass is Wiedmaier’s son, Marcel, 18, the recent recipient of a jazz scholarship to New York University. Review | At Siren, Robert Wiedmaier lures diners on a jazz-filled seafood journey 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

This works partly because the trio really coheres as a unit, and partly because Mr. Glawischnig rightly sees the bass guitar as a device with its own possibilities. Playlist: Albums by Rosie Thomas, Punch Brothers, Luis Perdomo 2012-02-12T15:54:38Z

With McCartney's relentless bass and Ringo Starr's cowbell propelling the rhythm, "Drive My Car" challenges the highly gendered expectations of the Beatles' mid-1960s audience. The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

He plays several instruments, including tuba, string bass and bass saxophone, and sings in a voice that evokes a less rambunctious Fats Waller. Review: ‘Vince Giordano,’ a Nostalgist With Fresh Takes on Jazz 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s in this arrangement — piano, bass and drums — that Mr. Corea seems most at ease, free to dig furrows into a standard repertory or put novel twists on rhythm and form. Music Review: A Musical Home With Three Sides 2010-10-01T23:02:00Z

Toward the end of the set the music began to weigh more on Mr. Sanders, who sang along to his bass improvisations. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z

The result, backed by string bass and drums, was a 1963 album, released as “Jazz Sébastien Bach” in France and “Bach’s Greatest Hits” in the United States. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Drummer Taylor Hawkins and our bass player, Nate Mendel, they work together. Q&A with Dave Grohl: On why he began writing after Nirvana, admiring Stewart Copeland and who played that solo on ‘Medicine at Midnight’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

He brought the same energy to “Burt,” a funk-oriented set opener, abandoning strict bass lines in favor of a roving commentary. Music Review: At Jazz Standard, Steve Cardenas?s Flinty Spine 2010-06-02T21:55:00Z

The arrangements, with trumpets cackling and clarinets fluttering above a droll sousaphone bass line, laugh their way through songs full of romance and heartbreak. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

Thrilling percussion-led riffs send the music soaring, only to subside, giving way to brooding conversations between bass and cello. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

The “Goldberg” Variations, too, unfold over a ground bass, beginning with a descent from G to D, but this time in G major. Music Review: The Met’s Museum Artists Play Bach and Biber 2013-06-09T21:49:11Z

I’m very happy to hear her just sing or just play bass, but when she isn’t doing both, I feel like something’s missing.” Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

With his right hand, he hit a series of quick stabbing chords that, on the recording, add a sense of dramatic rise-and-fall behind the repeating bass motif. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The indelible, spiky piano riff on “N.Y. State of Mind” is played by an acoustic bass and padded by lurking brass; creeping vibraphone on “One Love” gets a lift from flighty woodwinds. What’s on TV Friday: Nas and ‘Strike Back’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Barely there drums panned left; muted fingerpicked guitar panned right; right up the middle is God’s personal, unobtainable bass tone. Serge Gainsbourg, introduction to a provocateur 2011-09-02T20:20:00Z

Digga D is a leading voice in Britain’s drill scene, a subgenre of hip-hop featuring eerie piano melodies layered over droning bass lines, and lyrics portraying life in some of the country’s most deprived neighborhoods. For British Drill Stars, the Police Are Listening Closely 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Disparate sounds — and, crucially, ones that aren’t defined by heavy bass or catchy melodies — more easily coexisted. The Orb — strange electronic music that’s also popular 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Sometimes we didn't play a single bass drum until 2.30am, in a packed club, just to keep the tension up until it was unbearable. Kompakt – Germany's friendly techno label hits 20 2013-03-21T17:39:26Z

Sand dune bass fishers are beginning to report good largemouth action from the Crab Creek Area, Goose Island, and the face of O’Sullivan Dam. Potholes Reservoir comes alive for fishing and bird hunting 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

A pair of elegantly intertwined acoustic guitars, joined by bass and percussion, propel and offer counterpoint to the singers as they sketch a love-hate relationship that might still end in desire. Lou Reed’s Folky Velvet Underground Demo, and 9 More New Songs 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Normally a rookie bass player would be told: "This is the chord change," but I could play what I liked. How we made ... Public Image Ltd's Metal Box 2012-02-13T21:46:01Z

It is Morrison’s illustrations that give “The Roots of Rap” its beat, its bass, rhythm and soul. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

On “Holding Cell,” a highlight, voices harmonize over swarming violins, cello and electric bass; the harmony shifts tensely around them as they sing: “Holding cell/I can’t get well while you hold me.” Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

“They will be sur-prised,” sings Porter, unexpectedly diving to bass depth on the last word. Catch Gregory Porter at the Moore on June 17 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Songs like “Open Eye Signal” and “Collider” are complex, layered and fastidiously produced, but with their gradual builds and sweeping bass, they’re also suited for the dancefloor. Your week in Seattle music: Tori Amos, Journey and more 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ndegeocello grew up in Washington, studying at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and playing bass in go-go bands such as Rare Essence before moving on to pursue a national singing career. Jason Moran, Meshell Ndegeocello find their own way to honor Fats Waller

The bass line twists and thumps through the song like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist 2012-09-05T16:00:49Z

The contemporary American menu focuses on flavors and ingredients from the Northeast, such as Long Island fluke with citrus dashi and black sea bass from Cape Cod with Peking duck broth. Sophisticated Restaurant Clement Opens in New York's Peninsula Hotel 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z

Open-throated male vocals say the words, and keys and guitars paint the picture, wailing and then restraining themselves over a bass/kick heartbeat. Friday Favorites: Stephanie, OC Notes, Toro Y Moi 2010-06-04T19:49:00Z

So what do you do when people can't hear the bass? Mobile disco: how phones make music inescapable 2010-08-12T21:30:00Z

They deployed keyboards and computers, with Mr. Reznor often playing guitar and Mr. Cortini sometimes on bass; the beats were programmed. Music Review: How to Destroy Angels at the Apollo Theater 2013-05-01T15:23:06Z

His Old World seating plan – violins divided across the podium, cellos front and center, double basses curiously separated right and left – yielded a bright, clean, well-balanced sound. Under Gatti, French National Orchestra focuses on style, color 2011-04-14T17:25:00Z

The five-piece band — a wrecking crew of young talent in traditional formation: mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar and bass — could nimbly handle Thile’s jump cuts between sections and his layering of harmonic modes. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

In Dallas, at 15, he led his first band, the Starliners, which morphed into American Blues, a psychedelic trio featuring Mr. Hill’s younger brother, Dusty, on bass, and the drummer Frank Beard. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z

"We actually recorded just Corin playing to a drum machine, and Joe sent us back this track that was like a thousand guitars and basses and drums," Buck says. Peter Buck has no complaints: On his new Filthy Friends album, R.E.M. reissues and more 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

Still, its technically challenging aspects impressed its early British audiences, who would have been unaccustomed to hearing the double bass as a virtuoso instrument. Music Review: Dusting Off the Real Dragonetti Concerto 2010-10-05T21:15:00Z

Real ending: The titular mother is revealed to be a bass player named Tracey, who is then callously written off as Ted explains that she became terminally ill and died 11 years later. From Lost to Breaking Bad: how your favourite TV shows almost ended 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Murphy is a charismatic frontman and there's no letting up on tracks like Movement, whose Suicide-esque bass stabs threaten to play havoc with one's bowel movements. LCD Soundsystem at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-28T09:07:00Z

Equal parts country twang and hip-hop bass, “Old Town Road” lent itself well to cowboy memes and line-dance riffs. From TikTok smash to Billboard record-breaker: How ‘Old Town Road’ gamed the system and won the summer 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

After Mr. Holt and Mr. Young left to form their own group, Mr. Lewis formed a new trio with Cleveland Eaton on bass and Maurice White, later a founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, on drums. Ramsey Lewis, Jazz Pianist Who Became a Pop Star, Dies at 87 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis — from the Time and from Janet Jackson albums — flanked her on keytar and bass as she sang “Damage,” a song about being taken for granted. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

There's a lot going on there: horns, piano, bass, drums, electronic effects, all rhythmically matched – towards the end of the track, there's now twice as much sonic material. Lou Reed on Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes' 2013-07-03T15:48:19Z

I watched him on YouTube live, and the lights and the bass were just amazing. Prodigies Leap Beyond Electronic Dance Music 2012-08-24T12:00:00Z

Fraser's distinctive bass solo in the jubilant hit song has been noted in his obituaries. Andy Fraser: A bassist whose rumbling sound allowed Free to soar 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

He presents the Adagio almost straight, with the addition of a bass pedal an octave lower. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

It begins by setting Banks amid wordless voices and a few sparse piano notes, opens an abyss with deep bass notes, then closes in with suffocating synthesizer chords and whizzing, menacing effects. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Baked Chilean sea bass sports a glaze made with jaggery and cumin, which the chef caramelizes with a blow torch, leaving the fish with some crackle on top. Review | Punjab Grill is a feast for all the senses 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The band runs from tuba to flute, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones in between; it sometimes merges three different low-end lines, from tuba, acoustic bass and Dr. Smith’s organ foot-pedals. Music Review: The Hammond B-3 Lion Roars, Backed by His Pride 2010-12-31T22:40:24Z

You may not know what the ‘bass” is, but you know some girl named Meghan is all about it. Everything You Need to Know About the 2015 Grammys 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

An ambient soundtrack of one of Darboven’s musical compositions — a mind-massaging solo for double bass with a repetitive structure similar to her visual art — provides the beat. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

I’ve sung plenty of leads in my day but I really like the low parts, the bass parts and stuff. ArtsBeat: A Few Words With the Beach Boys 2012-02-17T22:54:34Z

The performance features the highly regarded, Grammy-winning basso profundo Glenn Miller as soloist, upholding the famous Russian tradition of deep bass voices. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Not sure if this movie will ever be made, but if it is, you’ll notice that Molly no longer plays bass. Gene Weingarten: the Opie-Changey thing 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

For instance, it usually begins with a phrase on the bass that indicates to the other members of the band that “Dark Star” is impending. My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Many of them, like the bass clarinetist Lea Bertucci and the trumpeter Steph Richards, were horn players testing the limits of their instruments — and their listeners. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

He has a second home of sorts at the Jazz Standard, where he appears this weekend with Lafayette Harris Jr. on piano, Mathew Parrish on bass and Chip White on drums. Jazz Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T22:57:44Z

At this show, on “Klavierwerke,” he played heavy thudding chords on his synthesizer that acted as the bass line, by far the night’s most danceable moment. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z

The weekend went by in a blur of impassioned readings, thumping bass lines, and scents carried on the ocean breeze: a full sensory explosion. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

At times, when his band mates were thrashing around him, his bass lines felt both rooted and freely bobbing, a bell buoy in heavy seas. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Apart from a pronounced emphasis on the bass line, the Meat Puppets sound strenuously mindful of history on their lo-fi version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Critic?s Notebook: Paying Tribute to Nirvana and the Strokes 2011-08-02T22:42:15Z

The music materialized part by part: pinging guitar picking, syncopated bass, stuttering drums and vocal lines that threaded through the instruments as often as they claimed the foreground. Music Review: Pop Second-Guessing Itself, Building Up and Coming Apart 2010-10-03T22:19:00Z

This propulsive, energetic work for string quartet, flute and clarinet/bass clarinet pits the instruments against each other, as well as in occasional harmony. Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

I like the bass so deep it's sub bass, so low you can't actually hear it – just feel it in your spine. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

About 15 people, most of them middle-aged, sat around this ramshackle downtown San Francisco bar sipping tea and wine while a saxophone, drum and bass trio played a mellow mixture of mostly standards. Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z

There is treated brass, a neat bass burble and cavernously spacious production that makes us think of Clipse's Grindin' sung by a Danish gamine, if indeed gamines aren't solely a Gallic phenomenon. New band of the day: MØ (No 1,371) 2012-10-12T17:14:56Z

It consists of a broomstick handle melded to a bona fide cigar box across which run three strings: one bass string for the low-end notes, and two guitar strings for rhythm accompaniment and soloing. Cigar box guitar on a smoking hot roll 2011-04-02T01:32:41Z

In opera history, Mephistophelean characters are typically basses, but Mr. Aucoin didn’t feel that was appropriate here. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

And while the commanding bass Soloman Howard is always a pleasure as the King, will the Met ever give him another role? After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

It has a shimmering little synth and a cavernous bass pulse you can feel in your chest cavity. Britney Spears’ “Most Personal” Record Lacks Personality 2013-12-05T10:45:38Z

He attended that party with a friend who played bass in a band with Owen Wuerker, whose house they are all sitting in now. Flasher takes the lessons of D.C.’s punk past and charges into the future 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jones, accompanied by Ron Abel on piano and Mark Vanderpool on bass, was still determined to reach those notes and succeeded some of the time. Music Review: Dream Girl of Musicals Dreams On 2011-03-16T21:57:22Z

His father, Alfio, is the sort of aficionado who in the family’s restaurant, Dioniso, will recite the menu in his accented English, complete with the type of wine used to prepare the sea bass. In Sicily, Market to Class to Table 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

“House of Jade” is the gentlest of the LP’s six Shorter originals, but Jones’s ever-propulsive beat and Workman’s staunch bass playing vest Shorter’s slow, elliptical melody with heavy, grinding force. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

In its rhythm section is Reuben Rogers on electric bass, and Eric Harland on drums, jazz musicians about half Mr. Lloyd’s age who sound right up-to-date: deep in the pocket and behind the beat. Review: Charles Lloyd & the Marvels Defy Easy Categories 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Crash,” one of the album’s first singles, brings out Usher’s gentlest falsetto over a subdued synthesized march — mostly just a bass line and blips — as he implores, “Would you mind if I still loved you?” Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Green often performs with a full band, placing his own bass work at center stage. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The final Ground was built on a repeating bass figure or passacaglia, a timely reminder of Purcell who used the same device in Dido's Lament. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

There was bass like a hard shove, like a bumpy road, like a plunging elevator, like electroshock jolts, like mastodon treads, like a leviathan surfacing, like a mudslide. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

Of the recent pieces in the first concert, Robin Holloway's Partitina, based around the opening bass line of the Goldberg variations' aria, was particularly successful. Angela Hewitt ? review 2010-11-22T22:15:00Z

He divided time in high school between Kentucky and Illinois, playing parts in school plays and bass in a band called Jehovah’s Suspects. Theater: He Looks Like a Big, Scary Guy Because He Is One 2010-12-26T02:24:21Z

The perky-reflective songs are played by a small combo of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, cello and percussion, so the music can be driving or mellow, depending on the state of romantic confusion. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Rogers would learn to play bass for his next gig as a member of the Houston jazz trio the Bobby Doyle Three. Kenny Rogers, country music's "The Gambler," dead at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Everdell plays keyboards, and Mr. Friedman handles the programming, sequencing beats and bass lines. Music Review: Mining Multiple Sources for Synthetic Character but an Organic Effect 2010-12-14T06:00:18Z

Ms. Muhl wrote, sang and played guitar, bass and keyboards on the album. Meet Charlotte Kemp Muhl, a Rock Star in the Making 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

All my personal experiences of FWD>> have been dancing to bass and marveling at how many of the DJs end up on the dancefloor themselves with no sign of fans asking for autographs. 10 reasons to wish FWD>> a happy 10th birthday 2011-08-19T15:08:48Z

Greg, on bass, was always in the pocket, although he played a lot of notes, so getting everyone to relax and just support the song took a while. Neil Young: 'These people were our audience' 2012-10-04T19:00:04Z

It’s a wish for a more carefree, less calculating spirit, sung by her overdubbed, call-and-response posse of female voices over a bouncing bass line. On Alice Merton’s Debut ‘Mint,’ Hooks Conquer Fears 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

He was like, “Where’s all the horns and the strings and the vocal production and the background you do? All the bass lines and stuff?” In the Thicke of it, Robin finds the light 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

It's hard to tell with Tall Ships because you tend to focus on the interplay between guitar and bass, which at certain points one is tempted to describe as a "complex lattice". New band of the day ? No 998: Tall Ships 2011-04-05T14:55:34Z

Very few pianists accompanied a bass or drum solo; they just shut down for a little while. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z

Now 89 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, he exudes a dignitary’s poise at the piano, typically working with this trio, featuring Alex Blake on bass and Neil Clarke on percussion. Jazz Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

With its deep bass lines and dark compositions, Wolf Alice’s music felt gothic in a way. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

At first, Joel Heeringa was convinced he was about to reel in a massive bass. Man’s 'unexpected' massive hybrid sunfish catch breaks state record 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Another duo, and another compendium of styles, only more recent: Disclosure's Settle gave us the summer's other party soundtrack by revisiting house and UKG/2-step, with nods to grime and assorted developments in bass music. The best albums of 2013 (so far) - the critics' choice 2013-07-11T19:53:04Z

Now and then a short bass drum roll suggests that something ominous might be stirring. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

There are labels ready to market this music, clubs ready to book it, a reliable stable of musicians to play it and almost standardized arrangements and production techniques — fiddles, accordions, acoustic bass, brushed drums. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

It concluded with one of those: “The Single Petal of a Rose,” played by Mr. Temperley on bass clarinet with a tender and unhurried solemnity. Joe Temperley, Velvety Baritone Saxophonist, Dies at 86 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Fishing is another option, and the stocked lake is full of bass, walleye, crappie and pickerel. A visitor’s guide to Deep Creek Lake, Smith Mountain Lake and Lake Anna 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Eleven musical acts, three film screenings, family-friendly performances and an underground bass stage will mark Globalfest’s summer debut, at Lincoln Center on July 27, organizers announced on Thursday. Globalfest to Make Its Summer Debut 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Dew Drop is a thick pop ca-coon lined with swampy bass and harmonious echos of the duo. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-23T16:08:00Z

Let Gorillaz's louche bass player explain why his band have hijacked our site ... Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z

His palms produce a thudding bass, his fingers tap out a fiddly syncopated tattoo, and his nails rattle a coffee mug into life as an improvised cymbal. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z

Franklin lost her place and couldn’t keep up with the booming bass while covering “I Will Survive.” Aretha Franklin at the Strathmore: Diva means not saying you’re sorry. 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s Novoselić who often throws the biggest curveball when he trades his bass for the accordion — an instrument he learned as a kid. Krist Novoselić finds post-Nirvana nirvana on his quiet farm and with his band Giants in the Trees 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Here, although I missed the bass — the bottom, the weight — a softness in the approach felt fresh, and the mixing produced some beautiful new spiraling steps, reaching toward a different mood, a different grace. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The songs assemble themselves from deceptively simple openings — on “Mermaids,” a lone, gurgling guitar; on “We Real Cool,” a single-note bass rumble — that evolve into rich climaxes full of string and keyboard flourishes. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z

They're an indie band whose music – featuring guitar, bass, drums and electronics – can be rhythmic, although it's a long way from what even the most hardened krautrockers might describe as funky. New band of the day ? No 862: Twin Sister 2010-09-07T16:06:00Z

“My goodness, what a great voice. Do you sing? Are you a bass singer?” How Dolly Parton Nearly Hired Our Columnist Away 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

"When the bass kicks in, it's a soul-stirring and mind-boggling experience." Music festivals guide 2012: soundsystems 2012-05-25T23:24:00Z

You know, the song had to end at a certain time, and the bass is playing the very same riff all the time. “I Can’t Stop Laughing”: Rita Moreno Remembers Singing with Animal 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Picking up on their colorfully combative spirit, imbuing it with scuffling spontaneity, the choreographer Yoshiko Chuma offered “Duo,” really more like a trio with the composer Robert Black and his hulking double bass. Lincoln Center Out of Doors Pays Tribute to Jenneth Webster 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

“She would regularly be cursing, slamming things, and trash-talking musicians and performers,” said Dan Peck, a musician who previously played the bass and tuba for the show. A Rough Rehearsal, a Suicide and a Broadway Show in Turmoil 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

He was best known for being a vocalist and bass player, not a guitarist, but I wanted to get his take on the guitar hero phenomenon. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

During his school years he branched out to bass clarinet, followed by tenor, alto and soprano saxophones. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z

Throughout the second half, the resonant bass notes, which Pollini’s pedalling emphasized, took on the deep, churning darkness of Rembrandt’s late paintings. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Musicians set up their instruments in adjoining rooms, with Bill Wyman having to play his bass in one space while his amplifiers stood in a hallway. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

Some of the tracks on the new LP are built over jazz rhythms and walking bass lines; others are constructed over funk beats. A Word With: Sam Beam of Iron and Wine 2013-04-19T17:27:31Z

Silverware and glasses can be heard in the background as Evans’s trio — with Scott LaFaro on bass and Paul Motian on drums — performs original tunes and standards with a lithe, sometimes profound grace. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Her music stitches elements from drum and bass, as well as garage. PinkPantheress Has 1 Million Fans on TikTok 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

Some weeks he performed out on the sidewalk, other times inside the restaurant; some weeks he performed solo, other times he was joined by bass player Sam Wilkes. Perspective | 2021 was the year smooth jazz gave us some serenity 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Front woman Sarah Barthel moved effortlessly between bass and piano while belting her lyrics. The Head and the Heart, Phantogram, Empire of the Sun rock The End’s Deck the Hall Ball 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

“The bass player pulls the whole groove forward,” Mr. Brooks, himself a bandleader, explains. Television Review: ?Cab Calloway: Sketches? on PBS 2012-02-25T00:16:11Z

His new songs relied on brutally stark synthesizer riffs and drumbeats, closer to industrial dance music than to current hip-hop, and they were delivered on Sunday through a sound system with bone-rattling bass. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z

In the 1968 “Dear Prudence,” the bass simply stayed on the left, while on the 2018 mix its location keeps hopping around. Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

I love me some booming bass, but hitting sub woofers with the drums was the right move. The-Dream's "Love King" songs of note #1: "Abyss" 2010-06-29T17:55:00Z

As on the last album, the intrigue is in the empty spaces, the territory left open by the lack of a piano or a bass or, often, any clear rhythmic pulse at all. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Dale, whose work included the 1962 hit “Misirlou” that was featured in the film “Pulp Fiction,” died on Saturday night, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing his former bass player Sam Bolle. Dick Dale, surf guitar pioneer, dies at 81 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

Later, as those assassins plotted, their crime was sternly echoed in the resonance and unanimity of the evocative combination of harp and plucked double basses. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Whether the team is building rhythms through echoed finger snaps, revisiting weird drum & bass music on the flashback-brilliant "Buffalo" or channeling Caribbean sounds on "Rock This Road," a Jaxx rudder guides songs toward inevitable eruption. Review: Basement Jaxx endures, hits new peaks on 'Junto 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Dawn Marie is rising and falling in the gray swells, one of a hundred boats crowded together in search of striped bass — sometimes called America’s fish — on the Chesapeake Bay. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

I still don’t really feel like a bass player.” Kim Gordon, Ex-Sonic Youth, Never Trained for This Career 2013-09-06T15:39:47Z

He played piano as a child and guitar and bass in rock bands, in high school and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Dave Smith, Whose Synthesizers Shaped Electronic Music, Dies at 72 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

A violin could sound more like a flute than ever; a bass fiddle, like a bass drum. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

I nod as I revisit her skepticism around Chilean sea bass, just like everyone who's read Anthony Bourdain remains forever skittish about ordering fish on Mondays. Comfort me with food memoirs, the only books I want to read right now 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

His tone, more expressively varied than you might expect, could evoke either a slimmed-down upright bass or a deeper, woodsier lute or guitar. Music Review: Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z

Number of orchestral instruments required to play the original version: a double string quartet, bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer

The performance takes its time, as Hawkins develops his improvisation alone over bass and drums, with gathering abstraction from the tune. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z

That’s a great idea, and you’d think the interplay between the basses might be what you went home remembering, but not necessarily. Music Review: Reggie Workman and Eric Reed at Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:55:47Z

Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Ruff, who doubled on bass and was also classically trained, met in the Army in the late 1940s, went their separate ways in pursuit of education under the G.I. Dwike Mitchell, Pianist With Missionary Zeal, Dies at 83 2013-04-19T03:00:57Z

He is a compositional wonk, starting his songwriting at the piano and then translating chords and melodies into the computerized zips and skull-rattling bass that fill a dance floor. Prodigies Leap Beyond Electronic Dance Music 2012-08-24T12:00:00Z

It’s got bullish bass lines and two drummers. Mark E. Smith Shows His Staying Power 2010-04-30T19:55:00Z

A bass baritone lip-synched his own role at the Los Angeles Opera after coming down with bronchitis. Essential Arts & Culture: Luminous canvases, a mirrored house and all the 'Hamilton' you can handle 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

We were sold: the simply grilled wild bass took me back to a vacation in Ibiza where I savored this same fish almost daily. Can an Italian Chef’s Success in D.C. Translate Into Spanish? 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

The last word, however, after an evening of such combined compositional strength and performing brilliance, must be devoted to the Dutch bass Harry van der Kamp. Music that speaks, thanks to Pacific MusicWorks 2014-04-11T18:02:17Z

The tracks range from the swirling piano and harp sounds of Cherry Blossom, to the title track's glimmering harp sounds, arco bass and splashing cymbals, and the solemnly compelling low-trumpet epilogue, Finding My Way. Matthew Halsall: Fletcher Moss Park – review 2012-12-20T21:30:08Z

He’s not – he doesn’t even play electric bass! Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

"I found a lot of simplicities to be way more beautiful, so there are songs that are just bass and drums, just so that I could have solid blocks of colour." The many lives of Dev Hynes 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z

But those are exceptions: The double bass really belongs to no established chamber ensemble. American String Project thinks big at Benaroya Hall 2010-05-12T22:57:00Z

A single double bass has a limited amount of tonal variety. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The bass on Limit to Your Love is so heavy that the air conditioning units rattle, while The Wilhelm Scream bursts unexpectedly into a thrilling crescendo. James Blake ? review 2011-01-16T22:16:00Z

“This is two of my great heroes in the one shot and that bass guitar is going to be in the auction.” U2’s Edge leading rock memorabilia sale to help musicians 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

That sound was just drums, percussion, horns, vocals and bass; I wanted those massive horn lines. Melt Yourself Down make jazz you can mosh to 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z

“I know that the jazz guys don’t dig the electric, so I gotta make it sound and I gotta make it feel like I’m playing the string bass.” Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The bass player and guitarist claim it was because she was the shortest, and not because she was the only woman, but whatever the reason, being singled out didn't suit her. Growing older: Kim Gordon 2013-02-16T09:00:37Z

He played the upright bass, its neck sticking out of the window of the family Cadillac as he was driven to school. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Kerbs Boathouse, with its tranquil pond full of model sailboats, triggers a soothing Pachelbel-like motif with a descending bass. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z

In both bands the bass sound was enormous, gut stirring. Music Review: 26 Metal Bands at Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Fla. 2012-06-03T23:00:55Z

He could easily hear the difference between one kind of Fender bass and another. Review: In ‘Switched On,’ John Elder Robison’s Asperger’s Brain Is Changed 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

The performance also featured the astonishing young talent of Alexander Vinogradov, whose penetrative bass tolled like the ringing of an ancient, Russian Orthodox bell. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z

The sound — from the side of the stadium at least — was so echoey that their voices were often lost in a cloud of reverb and the thunderous booming of bass and percussion. Day 2 of Bumbershoot sees more sunshine and ‘fun.’ 2013-09-02T02:18:27Z

Some of those beats were relatively heavy, and the bass got good and loud; it made up for the underfed sound of “Platform.” Review: Holly Herndon, With Laptops, at the Wick 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Taurus’s 1968 song “Spirit” includes an acoustic passage with an arpeggiated chord progression and a descending chromatic bass line that resembles the pastoral introduction to “Stairway.” Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Remove the bass from the marinade and place on a baking tray. Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z

Intonation sagged in unaccompanied choral sections, and there were discrepancies in sustained high woodwind chords and in the agreement of cellos and double basses­ on the bass line. Review | National Philharmonic soloists boost an otherwise delayed, derivative event 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

When Rafael complains about the rotting Chilean sea bass she expects him to cook, she responds, approximately, “You think Colonel Sanders didn’t fry up a couple of rats to make ends meet?” ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The second half brought more revelations, not least the Armenian bass duduk, which unleashed spookily sonorous purrs and car-horn growls that seemed incompatible with its modest dimensions. Stephan Micus – review 2013-04-11T17:21:16Z

Spalding’s mellow, dancing bass plucks are a sound we know best from jazz, but are totally at home here, and her singing is guileless without being childlike. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

As in years past, the soloists in the Trinity “Messiah” were drawn from the chorus, and the recitatives and airs were distributed among several sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, instead of the usual solo quartet. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z

The set seesawed between hip-hop and samba, hybridizing them both, with a layer of Brazilian percussion in the hip-hop and a bass undertow in the sambas. Music Review: Paying Tribute to New York, by Way of Brazil 2011-07-25T21:43:14Z

Thomas Morgan played short ideas all over the range of the bass, in big, calm, resonant notes. Music Review: Craig Taborn Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-04-06T00:07:44Z

While I’d been playing brass instruments for years, tuba parts are written in bass clef; I’d only ever read treble clef. When U.S.C. Plays U.C.L.A., They Play Too 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

He filled the dimensions of the theater, making you hear his bass drum accents in the back rows. Music Review: At Lincoln Center, Using Both Sound and Silence 2010-09-26T06:11:00Z

The parallel world of pop had seen bass's development into what Pratt calls "absolutely a glamour instrument", lending itself to the super shiny productions of the '80s - but a change was coming. Paying homage to 'slap' bass 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

“If we can’t get a commitment, we will leave,” said Alexander Svensen, who plays double bass and has been involved in the negotiations. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

When these slowcore pioneers released their debut album, “I Could Live in Hope,” in 1994, they kept it simple: bass, drums, guitar and vocals distilled to evoke painfully gorgeous landscapes trapped in snow globes. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The result is an audacious mix of raw R&B bass beats, baroque samples and daring vocal harmonies, a cross between TLC and Kraftwerk. Destiny's Child: 'We wear nothin' with our butt cheeks out, our boobs out' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-24T15:46:07Z

A classic example is the beginning of the beautiful Barcarolle: a deep bass note, followed by a high chord. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Something about the billowing piano samples and take-control bass line works perfectly once the drums hit, establishes a chill swagger. Friday Favorites: Flexions, Lake House, James Blake 2010-10-15T21:01:00Z

I used to be in bands ... we used to have to carry bass amps! Diplo on music: 'I'm not good at anything else' 2012-11-29T19:00:00Z

The 26-minute giddy exercise in modernist mayhem was conceived for 15 synchronized player pianos, two regular pianos, xylophones, electric bells, airplane propellers, bass drums, a siren and more. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: George Antheil, Haydn, Sibelius and More 2014-03-19T16:00:09Z

Slap bass seemed of its time: one individual, set apart from the band, skilled, virtuosic, but not part of the overall sound. Paying homage to 'slap' bass 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

“Corpses in Regalia” turns into something like punk-funk as Mr. Casey snarls at corporations and the superrich — “Decent folk don’t live that good” — with a broad-shouldered bass line strafed by bursts of frantic guitar tremolo. Protomartyr Turns Dread Into Post-Post-Punk on ‘Relatives in Descent’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

It was good advice to give a bass player; Bruner said he didn’t begin to think of himself as something more than that until the mid-2000s. He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Most of the music is acoustic: just piano, bass and drums behind exposed vocals. Music Review: Elton John in Concert at Madison Square Garden 2013-12-04T22:19:52Z

Spinney, of Stripers Forever, says Maryland is the striped bass’s worst enemy on the East Coast, likening the state to Nero, fiddling while Rome burned. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Their mixture of acoustic instruments and rumbling electronics creates an icy sonic grandeur, straying into drill 'n' bass. Unsound Adelaide: Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole, Ben Frost - review 2013-03-17T07:50:00Z

The two-piece, who play an unusual combination of bass and drums, tell the BBC about their meteoric rise, playing in wedding bands, and why they replaced their cymbals with sponges. Royal Blood rewrite the rules of rock 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

I was playing bass for a living in 1977 when Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” came out, so I heard it every night. The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Picton, 21, started as a guitarist but had a revelation listening to Motown bass lines. black midi’s Music Embraces the Extremes 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Happily, for those in eastern Long Island, there’s now another option for getting striped bass and fresh other fish. | A Chef in the Field: Striped Bass 2013-07-29T16:02:44Z

By the time Miles Mosley stepped up for a heavily processed bass solo, the house was dancing in its seats. An emotionally charged performance from Kamasi Washington 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The fingering involves the thumb playing the bass while the rest of the fingers play the melody. Willie K and Ledward Kaapana bring a bit of Hawaii to the Triple Door 2010-09-20T20:18:00Z

The current incarnation employs a bass player and someone to run the electronic wizardry, introduced primarily over the last two albums, in addition to Auerbach and Carney. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Burniss Earl Travis’s fortified bass and the swarming force of Mr. Brown’s drums work as a kind of magnetic therapy, softening your senses and opening your ears. Justin Brown Is a Monster on Drums. Now He’s a Bandleader, Too. 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

But the sounds were amazing, from hurdy-gurdy bass lines; to mellow, reedy harmonies; to ballpark-organ brassy swells; to alluring melodic lines with the richness of strings. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z

The performance was graced by strong vocal soloists, including Mr. Kaiser, the stentorian bass Morris Robinson and the plush mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z

By the time Mr. Simon was driving home the finale with “Call Me Al,” with its South African funk bass line and rocking horn lines, the people in the hall were on their feet. ArtsBeat: Leader of Jazz at Lincoln Center Steps Down 2012-04-19T06:17:36Z

Through delay pedals and atmospheric effects, his lone plucks echo and hang in the air, merging with Thomas Morgan’s tawny acoustic bass and Joey Baron’s lightly ricocheting cymbals. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Saya Gray, a Canadian songwriter who played bass in Daniel Caesar’s band, starts the song like a folky, picking triplets on an acoustic guitar. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

This composer is a specialty of this brilliant group, made up of young vocalists and instrumentalists on recorders, violins and various stringed bass instruments. Review: The Rarely Heard Christmas Music of a Baroque Master 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

The Swing 7 includes his brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass, among others. Jazz Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

He feels like a voice of reason, reminding anglers that prized and much-coddled bass have only even been in New Hampshire since the 1800s, and that yucky fish like lampreys are native and ecologically important. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Grant played bass guitar as part of Cash's band from 1954-80. Johnny Cash's sideman Marshall Grant dies in Ark. 2011-08-08T17:39:11Z

Stephen Stills, recently of Buffalo Springfield, even popped up on bass on one track. Hendrix at 70: New album offers different look 2013-03-05T19:25:24Z

Buzzes, chimes, nagging nasal tones, deep bass cross-rhythms, slides and crackles, blips that turn into swarms: in the next two bars, anything might appear, from any direction. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Girls appreciate visual distraction while boys make do with sticking their heads in the bass cabinets at the front of the stage. Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z

His father, Grachan II, played bass with the Savoy Sultans, a swing ensemble, at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The lead single, “Up Jumped Spring,” finds them pushing Freddie Hubbard’s waltzing jazz standard to an insistent clip: Mr. Smith’s pedaled bass and Mr. Kreisberg’s taut guitar playing goad and tug at each other. The Playlist: The Hold Steady Get Revved Up and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Even the dubious "Highly Suspicious" packed a floor-rumbling keyboard bass riff that evoked Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Underfoot." My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z

The bass player is expected to testify Thursday. Tejano star Emilio sued over DWI-related bus wreck 2011-01-06T16:45:18Z

“Collage,” from her album “Black Acid Soul,” rides an acoustic bass vamp and modal jazz harmonies, enfolded in wind chimes and Mellotron “string” chords. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

You might pick Air Conditioning, whose twin guitars set off on a cross-country track, scampering and clambering through sun-dappled forests, with bass and drums maintaining solid, fertile ground beneath them. Diiv: Oshin – review 2012-06-28T21:30:01Z

Williams picked up one of her 11 guitars — a harp guitar, where bass strings poke diagonally from the guitar’s small body. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

I had always said I could never do that song because it’s got such a complicated bass part that it’s almost impossible to sing the melody, which is kind of contrapuntal. Sir Paul on Fans, the Beatles and Himself 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

He played the bass and conducted early in his career, but eventually turned to orchestrating and arranging full time. William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Everything else — from the exuberant solos of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker to the intimate musings of Billie Holiday and Chet Baker — grows from the rhythmic embrace of the bass and drums. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Bennie Maupin played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet, and is the last surviving musician from that group. Lee Morgan’s ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ was a masterpiece that turned out to be a farewell 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

After rehearsing a basic track featuring Harrison and Lennon’s electric guitars, McCartney’s bass, and Starr’s drums, they remade the song on July 10. The Beatles’ struggle to finish “The White Album”: How bad did it get?  2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Daniels made his first mark as a session musician in the late 1960s and early ’70s, playing guitar, bass, fiddle and banjo on Nashville recordings by Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and Leonard Cohen. Charlie Daniels, Fiddling Force in Country and Rock, Dies at 83 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

“There’s also these low, plucked bass notes, which are also pulsing but at different rates.” The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Scoring ‘Gravity’ 2014-02-05T21:24:28Z

The scuffle dislodges Carlson's microphone but the bass and drums remain locked in a persuasive groove while the stage is cleared, all except for one girl dancing spellbound, apparently oblivious to the bedlam around her. Splashh – review 2013-06-02T14:30:01Z

With his Situation project, he always works with at least one turntablist and typically plays electric bass. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

They’d just bought an Ace Tone electric organ; together with McNew’s ballooning harmonies on the bass, it added a humming, undulating depth. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Similar to the oceanic crescendo that runs through Wagner’s Vorspiel to “Das Rheingold,” this bass is felt before it’s heard, the downbeat swooning to fill a space, tuned to its own harmonic center. The 808 Heard Round the World 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The piece is a five-minute, organic, roiling mass of sound, with thumping bass lines, oscillating figures in the piano’s midrange, and a right-hand element that keeps leaping from plunky low tones to celestial high ones. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Explaining the group’s modus operandi, Mr. Moye said in an interview recently, “It was all based around the idea of expanding the standard instrumentation of piano, bass, horns, drums.” 50 Years On, the Art Ensemble of Chicago Is Still Transforming 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

It is based around the rich Requiem mass by Antoine de Févin, with its two bass lines giving a deep and sonorous quality to the music, enhanced here by low-pitched instruments. F?vin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:52Z

Purveyors of pristine, flawless studio digitalia rarely gain from strapping on a bass guitar or attempting to school themselves in paradiddles. Mount Kimbie – review 2013-05-26T16:41:56Z

This jibed with Dr. Altenmüller’s observation on Friday that the performers least at risk were those who played large instruments, like the harp, double bass and cello. Critic?s Notebook: Dystonia, Which Struck Glenn Gould and Other Musicians 2012-03-13T22:19:34Z

The bass line kicked in with  420 lb ft of torque and we were passing drivers in no time. Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible: Fast Fall Driving 2011-09-13T16:41:26Z

We ended up catching eight different species, including perch, smallmouth bass, crappie, rainbow trout, walleye, catfish, sunfish and even a whopper carp. Outdoor writer Dave Graybill hooks eight fish species on one trip at Potholes 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

In “Dernier Cri,” Mr. Morgan improvised over brushed drums, with great tone and resonance to his bass notes but low volume, and an almost eerie lack of affect. Music Review: Tomasz Stanko Quartet at Jazz Standard 2012-06-01T20:54:33Z

Mr. McFerrin beatboxed both the bass line and a succession of different beats — drum and bass, slow and warped funk — and Mr. James interacted with him, singing narratives and wordless tones in the spaces. Music Review: Jos? James at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-02-12T23:07:11Z

Beneath that, on the bass staff, is a held F note, while just above the treble staff she writes, “With the accompaniment of the birds singing at dawn.” Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

As the rest of the band felt light and volatile, playing hide-and-seek with harmony and rhythm, Mr. Dunn’s bass sound remained broad and deep and strong. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z

The player hunches over the bass, fingers scrawling out harmonics beyond the fingerboard: It’s a visual spectacle as much as an aural one. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

In fact, he probably foresaw a gig much like any other: bass, beats, bantz. Stagediving, putting the danger back into live music 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z

Jamie Teasdale's journey from po-faced dubstepper to romantic voyager has been one of the more heartwarming tales to emerge from UK bass. This week's new tracks 2012-06-01T23:06:02Z

American standards like red snapper, bigeye tuna and black sea bass can be had, but there are far cheaper places to eat the standards. Restaurant Reviews: Limani and Estiatorio Milos in Midtown 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

And “Baghdad Blues,” which on the album has Mr. Cohen Milo bowing his bass while Mr. Ravitz taps a frame drum, landed more aggressively here. Music Review: A Little Kick From the Mideast: Folk Spices the Jazz 2011-04-06T21:58:18Z

He is accompanied on the European tour by Lee Musiker on piano, Gray Sargent on guitar, Harold Jones on drums and Marshall Wood on upright bass. Tony Bennett makes nostalgic return to Italian roots 2012-07-23T13:58:38Z

Most of the percussion came by way of Smith's keyboard programming, but Sim's work on bass also drove melodies. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z

Followed by some tunes: Stanton singing and on harmonica, accompanied by guitar and bass. Harry Dean Stanton: at 88, still going strong down Route 66 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

GoGo Penguin has the lineup of a standard jazz trio: piano, bass, drums. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

He was my dad’s original bass player and he played bass the day he had an aneurysm. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

From the speakers comes the chain-saw snarl and vicious bass thump of Alien Sex Fiend. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z

Fish, particularly species known as both sporting fish and table fare like the striped bass, need to be managed, collectively, among the states where they are sought. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The overture, “Glass,” opens in dreamy quietude, with bowed bass and pinging guitar harmonics; Mr. Malaby appears only after several minutes, projecting his soprano in a strong, focused beam. Review: Tony Malaby, Weaving Spells With Paloma Recio 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Beethoven uses the cellos and basses like a song without words, a recitative without words. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

A 53-foot climate-controlled truck travels with the larger instruments — eight or nine basses; 12 cellos, a harp or two and all the percussion, including timpani, xylophone, vibraphone and snare drums. Small Army, Philharmonic in Tow 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Their single “Uptown Funk,” a revivalist jam with a Funkadelic-caliber bass line, is Mr. Ronson’s first song to crack the Billboard Top 5 in America. Mark Ronson’s Fourth Solo Album, ‘Uptown Special,’ Is a Star Collaboration 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

That tinkering extends to other species of fish the striped bass eat. Are striped bass doomed? Some conservationists are worried. 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Oh, and there was a bass in a blender. 5 Essential Moments from SNL's 40th Anniversary Special 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bowen erroneously added a harp and clarinet but lost the double bass, while misinterpreting Weill’s abbreviations for “piano,” splitting the part between piano and clarinet. Kurt Weill’s Music for a Magical Dance, Lost and Now Found 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mumford’s dusky, warm mezzo added mystery to “But who may abide,” where a full complement of cellos and basses added further depth to the continuo part. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z

Pretty much all the music came from guitars, bass and drums laid down by me in my studio. How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

The same lusty marsala sauce minus the mushrooms worked equally well with "branzino," lush chunks of sustainably harvested Chilean sea bass. Sleek new Mamma Melina appeals to contemporary tastes 2010-08-26T20:05:00Z

Morlot quickly managed to impose a contemplative mood in both pieces -- no easy task in this vast, noisy amphitheater -- with performances of lucid, spotlighted detail and a solid bass underpinning. Simone Porter, Ludovic Morlot a star combo at Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

One of these, grilled black bass with exceptional little roasted potatoes, was spread with a really energetic salsa verde that got extra lift from tarragon. At Lilia in Brooklyn, Missy Robbins Is Cooking Pasta Again 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

One or two muddied bass trills and rhythmic hesitancies, insignificant in themselves, seemed to shift Ax's focus from the whole to the part, causing an unevenness in tone and metre. Emanuel Ax ? review 2011-03-23T17:43:10Z

The 10 songs last barely 25 minutes, but in that pared-back simplicity every melody and bass thrum and poetic image counts. Fionn Regan: The Bunkhouse Vol I: Anchor Black Tattoo – review 2013-01-24T21:00:01Z

In high school she formed the Melody Ranch Girls, singing and playing a bass fiddle that her parents had paid for by pawning furniture. Jean Shepard, a Female Country Voice With Muscle and Ambition, Dies at 82 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

His compositions are often evocative and mysterious, showcasing the ability of instruments like the clarinet and the double bass to whisper. Matthias Pintscher, Evocative Composer, to Lead Kansas City Symphony 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Northwest States begins with a pop melody and lyrics about lost love over programmed beats and a nice rumbling bass line. Putting the world's music blogs on the MAP 2010-10-15T11:52:00Z

But all extraneous noise was blocked by the loud, joyous sounds produced by a small procession of Highland bagpipers and bass woodwinds holding court in Long Island City. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Once, when one of the lines got a tug, Matt told me to reel it in, and a few minutes later we were examining what looked to me to be a rather large striped bass. Sleeping Under the Stars in Brooklyn 2010-05-12T03:00:00Z

Philharmonic principal bass Dennis Trembly, "simply be invited to the music director's hotel room, perform a piece of music and get a handshake." Classical musicians and the terror of the audition 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

Each time he played it, he threw the sound more intensely, dropping a huge bass that shook the room. | Memories of the Paradise Garage, From Those Who Danced There 2014-05-09T16:56:28Z

Ms. Barnett sticks to the indie-rock basics of guitars, bass and drums, with a keyboard now and then, and it’s all the palette she needs. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

He played on albums by the trumpeter Booker Little, notably “Out Front,” a landmark of progressive postbop featuring Max Roach on drums and Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. Don Friedman, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And it was not, thankfully, all about that bass. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

I fell in love with the work’s endless variety of melody and mood, the earthshaking bass arias, the airy calm of the later soprano solos. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Desiigner’s freestyle is everything that “Panda” is not: impromptu, eerily subdued, melodically complex, sung gently and in a hushed voice, rather than rapped against a tide of glass-splintering bass. Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner”: A Viral Freestyle Finds Full Form 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

Sometimes Mozart goes for a big effect, as in the bass aria “Why do the nations so furiously rage together,” in which Handel’s agitated orchestra is fortified with military trumpets. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

Backed by bass and drums, the set started full-tilt with Passport, and continued at much the same pace. Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate – review 2013-03-19T16:27:13Z

And “Hollywood,” the album’s darkly dramatic finale, pulses throughout its 14 minutes with a foreboding bass line as Cave sings about predators, abandonment and a child’s death. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The bass Andrea Concetti acquitted himself honorably in the ungrateful part of Seneca, the Stoic philosopher and Nero’s tutor, who is ordered to commit suicide for trying to intervene in his pupil’s amorous escapades. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

He gives everything weight, building an orchestral sound from the bass instruments up. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

In our high-school garage band, Scarecrow Boat, he had played guitar and I had played bass. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

The bass player might be Malay, from Bellingham. Fall with Frank Ocean: 'Monks' 2012-11-21T18:13:53Z

That year, he started playing with Hot Tuna, a side project formed by the band’s guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bass player Jack Casady, but was not on the group’s first record. Joey Covington, 67, Drummer for Jefferson Airplane, Dies 2013-06-08T00:31:49Z

Their first and greatest bass guitarist was Jet Harris, who has died aged 71 of cancer. Jet Harris obituary 2011-03-18T22:11:19Z

He has added empanadas to the menu, their shells as light as wonton skins, sealed around sea bass flaked in a pan with garlic and Mexican adobo seasoning. A Shrimp Cocktail With a Jumbo Jolt, at La Esquina in Queens 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

The fishballs, barbecued lamb and sea bass look tasty, as does the location of his rooftop kitchen. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z

Elsewhere, the traditional rock set up of vocals, bass, drums and guitars is assisting pop acts in their success like never before. Rock isn't dead ? it's just resting 2011-01-12T17:26:32Z

In the supporting role of Ferrando, bass Morris Robinson sang with imposing power and beautiful, rounded tone. Youth and experience at Met in Verdi's 'Trovatore' 2012-09-30T13:17:10Z

After conquering the violin, Mr. Zee taught himself the viola, then the cello, then the bass. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z

Mr. Pérez brings a similar slipperiness — but a more direct connection with his Panamanian roots — to his own longstanding trio, featuring Ben Street on bass and Adam Cruz on drums. Jazz Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Then she remembered an intro to “Ode to Joy” that features her instrument, the double bass, and the cello. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Vector Families is a group of peers from the Upper Midwest, including Anthony Cox on electric bass, Brandon Wozniak on tenor saxophone and Dean Granros, a visionary oddball, on electric guitar. At NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon, New Faces Make Their Mark at Grooving Places 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

The bass Kevin Deas balanced stentorian delivery with smooth legato phrasing. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

In 2011 the group relocated from Cape Cod, Mass., to Brooklyn — a scene where Highly Suspect, which also includes the twin brothers Rich and Ryan Meyer on bass and drums, didn’t quite fit in. In Grammy Race, the Band Highly Suspect Marvels at Its Surprising Double Shot 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

I guess next season will be the bass guitar. Analyzing the 'American Idol' Top 5: Lots of testosterone and guitars 2010-05-02T19:31:00Z

The four Sandbox players returned to form a circle around chimes and a bass drum for “Extremes,” an intricate work by Jason Treuting, one of the founders of the illustrious So Percussion ensemble. Who knew a cathedral of sound could be build from Sandbox Percussion? 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Featuring a soaring female vocal, a gargantuan synth riff and big bass drops in all the right places, it's a sophisticated, hands-aloft banger that should slot nicely alongside the output of his contemporaries. New music: Burns – Limitless 2013-04-15T10:30:50Z

And jungle, with its revolutionary message and spiritual communion with bass frequencies, remains Congo Natty's mouthpiece of choice. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z

“I Wonder,” the highlight of the documentary, lacked the dominant bass line of the record, but was still upbeat. Concert Review: Rodriguez charming but disjointed and flat 2013-04-26T18:49:42Z

We added occasional bass notes that didn’t exist in the original. Ticking Watch. Boat Engine. Slowness. The Secrets of the ‘Dunkirk’ Score. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

She mostly played bass, although she also contributed backing vocals and played keyboards on one song. Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley supply Drinks at U Street Music Hall 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

With a title like that, the dozens of musicians packing the stage -- brass, strings, keyboards, choir, percussion and bass -- had better deliver.  Kamasi Washington and band prove 'The Epic' hype, thrill a sold-out Regent 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

“I used to come into every space with a bass and guitar in my hand, and a backpack with my laptop,” he said, evoking an image of an extremely earnest, ready-to-please young man. For the Producers Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy, Collaboration Is Key 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

The artist is working on his follow-up, and the just released teaser track, "Funk Dos Bromanticos," is a beast that somehow blends wobbly dubstep-inspired bass with frantic rhythms and much inspired weirdness. World Cup kicks up interest in best of Brazilian music 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

It was by turns decorous and processional, while at times interrupted by interjections of stereo-traveling static or a bass tone that had escaped a dance club: juxtapositions that didn’t quite make sense. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Back in the 1970s under the name Gary Valentine, he was the bass guitarist in the rock group Blondie when he happened upon a copy of Wilson’s “The Occult.” UFOs, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Countless details have changed in the new version, some predictable in the move from vinyl to digital — there’s a bit more bass, though not overbearingly — and many that are brand-new judgment calls. Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Napier’s formidable jaw, gruff demeanor and growling bass voice lent themselves to rugged parts. Charles Napier, Actor Who Played Strong Men, Dies at 75 2011-10-07T00:33:02Z

Available on the company’s website, the panel included Mr. Brownlee, Ms. Bullock, the soprano Karen Slack, the tenor Russell Thomas and the bass Morris Robinson. A Met Opera Star Was Born, ‘Then Everything Stopped’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul are on vocals and guitar, while Manchester Paul plays bass, and Pennsylvania Paul is on percussion. Paul O’Sullivan found people with his name on Facebook. Naturally, they formed a band. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

And then: a kick drum, a bass line and some cymbal. These Movie Scenes Might Not Be Important, but They’re Pretty Great 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The cutlet may strike a hollow note on its own, but it will provide a steady bass line to the arpeggio flash of the accompanying salads. Review | The 10 best Ethiopian restaurants in the Washington area 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Unlike the original, the new place will be fitted with Japanese tabletop grills for searing skewered Wagyu beef wrapped in betel leaf, black sea bass, sugarcane shrimp and lemongrass grilled oysters. New Restaurants to Fill In New York’s Gaps 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The song’s heavy bass rattled the entire building like a jackhammer and rolled into the similarly temperamental “Grief.” Earl Sweatshirt shows off both sides of his personality at Fillmore 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

The $29 sea bass moistened with a sauce including yellow mustard seeds is also very good, if not the same eye candy. Review | Commonwealth Indian is dressed to thrill in Rockville 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Singer Anthony Kiedis, bass player Michael “Flea” Balzary and drummer Chad Smith join the likes of The Grateful Dead, Scorpions and Frank Sinatra performing at one of the seven wonders of the world. Red Hot Chili Peppers rock Egypt's pyramids 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Bernie Houston’s painted sculptures depict aspects of African American culture by ingeniously transforming gnarled driftwood into a dancer’s body or a bass guitar. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

With that, he picked the bass up and tossed it over to me. The time I strummed Paul McCartney’s bass guitar 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Baum’s set drew from her world fusion album, “Bridges,” which featured driving rhythms and tasty voicings for alto flute, French horn, bass clarinet and trumpet. From Norah Jones to Dawn Clement, women shone at Monterey Jazz Festival 2018 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Among the youngsters in the group was Mr. Mingus, whom Buddy persuaded to switch from cello to bass. Buddy Collette, Musician Who Played With Jazz Greats, Dies at 89 2010-09-29T04:30:00Z

“Skip This Track” goes retro, with neat but distorted analog-flavored bass and old-fashioned canned handclaps. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z

But through his set bass was its own reward. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

He and I are not the only reunion truthers prone to dramatic feelings about bass players. Reunion Tour! The Band Is Back! Wait, Who Are These Guys? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

And Flora, who was comfortable on the bass but had been nervous to be performing her first drum solo, was delighted with how it had all gone. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

A brisk midtempo beat clicks and ticks quietly through the tracks, with unassertive bass lines almost humming to themselves; later the propulsion becomes just slightly more insistent. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z

Everything went into a bowl: bass scraps, garlic greens, onions, his lemon-juice-and-oil cocktail, all topped with a quick hail of sea salt. From Scraps of Bass, Ceviche Is Born 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

In 1998 he was awarded a Fender Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in popularising the bass guitar in Britain. Shadows bassist Jet Harris dies 2011-03-18T17:55:17Z

Dubstep has been around for more than a decade, an offshoot of electronic music that began in the South of London with deep, sinister bass lines, skittering drums and a distinctly underground vibe. Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs 2012-06-14T20:33:00Z

The same was true of "Strange Angels," and its chant of "here they come, here they come," with Sverrisson's bass figures taking on the role of a second voice. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z

Behind her sit her band – keys, cello, guitar, drums, double bass – and beyond them the sky, a darkening blueish-pink. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z

Even the video screen beneath the mixing board appeared to wobble with each bass quake. 300,000's a crowd at packed Lollapalooza 2013-07-29T17:54:00Z

Instead of the boom boom pow on popular radio, we get fingersnaps for snares and bass for kicks. Friday Favorites: Crazy Old Bat, The Physics, BenadriLL 2011-04-29T18:02:07Z

A place where the bass of dancehall and reggae merged with hip-hop and old-school R&B; a place where one can smell curried goat and jerk chicken alongside fried chicken and catfish. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

There's a terrific reading of Thelonious Monk's Green Chimneys, where Ali Jackson's drums clank and rattle while Carlos Henriquez's bass purrs. Wynton Marsalis Quintet – review 2013-07-23T16:23:00Z

It was insistently gigantic, from its earthshaking bass and its bombastic arrangements to the display of Mr. West’s ego, alternately confessional and proudly selfish. Critic?s Notebook: Where the Music Still Roils in a Critical Mass 2011-03-20T22:58:44Z

My grandmother had left me a couple of hundred quid so I bought a bass guitar. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

There is plenty of room at the parks and resorts here and fishing for trout and bass is very good. Outdoor writer Dave Graybill looks at many east side fishing options 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

I was in Soul Asylum, but they really needed a bass player who was there all the time. Alt-Rock Legend Tommy Stinson Talks About Guns N’ Roses, Puff Daddy, and a Replacements Reunion 2013-03-28T16:39:24Z

The album’s title track wants to be a tribal romper, breaking open with a flurry of hand drums before bridging the minimal bass line to a classic Chase stomper. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z

In the 1970s, he helped found the Heath Brothers, which also featured brothers Percy Heath on bass and Albert “Tootie” Heath on drums. Jazz composer and saxophone player Jimmy Heath dies at 93 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

The show opened with a bow being drawn over the strings of a bass guitar, and the resulting drone formed a backdrop for the next two hours. At Paris Exhibition, Tracing the Roots of the Velvet Underground 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Closing track Separator – propelled by wandering bass and a bright guitar figure – ensures the album closes far more strongly than it opens. Radiohead ? The King of Limbs: First review 2011-02-18T13:47:31Z

Mr. Binney phrased the melody as a string of hiccups and then eased into an elastic mode, coolly extemporizing over bass and drums, with ample space for Mr. Weiss to fill. David Binney: David Binney?s Art of the Straddle at 55 Bar 2010-04-07T21:58:00Z

Yet the cheers from the audience were just as enthusiastic after the most mellow bagatelle, music run through with an almost obsessively repetitive lapping bass riff in the piano and jazzy ruminations on the violin. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Glen Matlock worked at the shop part time and joined in on bass. Steve Jones is and will always be punker than you. And he has a memoir. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Female bartenders, their long hair draped over sequined black corsets, serve $15 shots of Jack Daniels whiskey, coordinating their pouring to the skull-rattling bass and synthetic blares vibrating around them. Casino bosses transform Sin City into Club City 2013-05-05T18:09:09Z

There were a lot of bass solos, so this happened often. Music Review: Thundercat, No Longer a Sideman, Plays S.O.B.?s 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z

Perch, crappie, bass, rainbow trout and walleye are all abundant. For summer fun in Potholes State Park, just add water (and sand dunes) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

For ordinary budgets, the kitchen will make most fish dishes with either tilapia or sea bass. A New Kind of Sichuan Restaurant for New York 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

The fivesome, which also includes bass player Rick Savage, plan to meet in Dublin in the new year to start writing. Def Leppard Talks Cancer, Concert Film, New Music 2013-10-02T14:16:25Z

One track, “The Opener,” referred to a fan who suggested they hire a “real bass player.” Camp Cope Is OK With Getting Big, If Fans Still ‘Cry and Lose Their Minds’ 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Think for one second about all the TV you don’t watch – home renovation reality shows, dramatic re-enactments of obscure civil war battles, bass fishing highlights, and whatever the hell Freeform is. The worst TV pilots ever: a Waterworld prequel, drag-racing PIs and furry fetish 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Both he and Mr. Weidman play with care and attention to the song’s changes; Ms. Spalding plays a melodic, songlike bass solo. New Music: JOE LOVANO US FIVE 2013-01-08T00:19:05Z

The way the bass and trombone savored droning tones in the second movement served as a reminder of what this group has learned from engaging with the Minimalist aesthetic. Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

You can just buy this record and pick this off and get this bass and flap it up! Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

The crowd loves it, whooping indiscriminately at the lick of the bass. Coachella festival 2013 day three: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave, Grimes – review 2013-04-15T09:49:58Z

"Opera can be cool, with sheer American energy - jazz, and an R&B bass." Opera awards go to Peter Sellars and 4 singers 2012-04-30T09:46:04Z

“She said to me, ‘Oh, you know, I’m sorry the bass part doesn’t have much to do.’ Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The distinctive tubular bell ringing, percussion jingling and low bass line rumbling as a character does something: usually, walk menacingly. The "Red Right Hand" of "Ted Lasso": How the song with a murder narrative fits Roy Kent 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z

The smaller roles of Sailor, Shepherd and Steersman were well-taken, and Danish bass Stephen Milling, as King Marke, revealed perhaps the richest voice of all. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' presented masterfully as an opera of the mind 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z

Because AC/DC's music is so uncluttered — often with just a guitar riff, bass line and thumping drum beat — it offers an uncertain player nowhere to hide. Brian Johnson, AC/DC all set to shake the Coachella kids up 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Radin is joined on stage by a band including cello, double bass and three young female backing singers who are so awkward, they look like they were press-ganged into joining glee club. Joshua Radin 2010-04-12T21:30:00Z

Built in various sizes, one of the larger instruments features a fretted string for laying down rock-inflected bass lines. Classical CD review: ‘Music for Wood and Strings’ by Bryce Dessner 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

At the other extreme, the veteran bass Robert Holl contemplated the grave with every ounce of his being. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

You will search their oeuvre in vain for fat, colon-juddering bass wobbles. Mount Kimbie – review 2013-05-26T16:41:56Z

Penthouse and Pavement, with its live funk bass and sleek, radio-friendly production, was a long way from the Future. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

Fiorentino locked in with him, pushing her bass to the forefront of the band’s engine room, and chipping in with lots of harmony vocals that took the edge off Corgan’s nasal tone. Smashing Pumpkins pummel the Riviera 2011-10-15T07:22:00Z

Singing close harmony in what could almost be a nursery-rhyme melody, they add percussion and synthesizer bass lines over what sounds like marching feet. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

At their best, on tracks such as The Naughty Step, they start with bubbling electronica, sturdy percussion and a solid bass riff, then introduce hypnotic work-outs on pipe or fiddle. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z

Now, imagine that some of those strangers maybe take your paintings off the walls and hang up their own, or start playing a double bass in your living room. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

On break from college, he pulled an all-nighter to whip up a finger-snapping beat and circular bass melody straight from Motown. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Her funky six-member band — keyboard, drums, bass, three backup singers — played the opening notes to “All I Need,” as impatient fans’ tweets were projected onto the two giant screens that acted as a backdrop. You will miss her when she’s gone: Noname soars live 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

In the last movement, “Details Emerge,” the pianos assert themselves with rumblings in the bass and contrasting flights in the keyboard’s upper reaches. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Give it up for Ray on the bass! Washed Out ? review 2011-08-11T16:55:50Z

Kearney ranges all over her instrument, alternately sounding like a viola, cello or bass. Kanye, Jay-Z head the list of new CDs 2011-08-22T22:12:30Z

The very multitrack technology that allowed bass to be turned up also allowed lead singers to record backing vocals. Let's raise a glass to lovely, swampy, droning, booming bass 2013-05-29T19:00:00Z

After a gloomy opening, the short second movement concludes in a comparative rush, with strangely strutting passages for double bass, harpsichord, harmonium and trumpet. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

We then worked our way down the lake fishing for smallmouth bass. Summer rainbow trout bite at Lake Roosevelt worth trek east of Cascades 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The same players, without Mr. Flynt’s double bass, performed Dvorak’s “Cypresses for String Quartet.” Music Review: Marlboro Chamber Ensemble in Peoples’ Concert Series 2014-04-09T21:19:01Z

Pianist Lisa Emenheiser, playing a realization of the continuo part on the big Steinway, was too prominent in both pieces, often covering cellist David Hardy on the bass line. Review | Marissa Regni is second fiddle no longer in Kennedy Center Chamber Players’ season finale 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

In its original incarnation, on the most recent Coldplay album, “Everglow” is a piano ballad tastefully padded with sonic accouterments: electric bass, pealing guitars, stark and unobtrusive drums. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The was an impressive amount of stagecraft going on: at one point, Mars lay down on the stage floor, the bass ramped up to tooth-rattling levels, bemusement swept the crowd. Phoenix at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-30T23:51:00Z

A naked tune even by The xx's standards, the Paramount version of "Stars" used silence even more liberally than on record, and dropped bass bombs that made the theater shake. Concert review: The xx at the Paramount 09/25/10 2010-09-27T00:54:00Z

But when her band – a mixed blessing of guitar, bass, drums and electronics – start up, Ware is transformed. Jessie Ware – review 2012-08-18T23:07:33Z

The group’s members — Joshua Redman on tenor and soprano saxophones; Aaron Parks on piano, organ and keyboards; Matt Penman on bass; and Eric Harland on drums — share the responsibility for that sleight of hand. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z

Rooms start at about €230 per night, while dining starts at about €60 per person, with specials that include sea bass baked in sea salt and wafer-thin fried zucchini and eggplant. In Athens Creativity in Art, Food and More Rises 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Heady stuff, for sure, but Flea is conversant with them all, and his bass playing lends not just ballast but elasticity to these arrangements. Album review: Atoms for Peace, 'Amok' 2013-02-25T02:50:00Z

Flea’s bass built a spine and the beats accumulated strength. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z

If "animatronics meets bass" makes you think dancing robots, think again. This week's new events 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Doc Brown's comic raps were little changed by the presence of real drums and a double bass. The Horne Section ? review 2011-02-16T15:22:04Z

Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

There are warm pop ballads, voices overlapping in a choir, jagged polyrhythms built of woodwinds, bass lines on a constant walk, kalimbas setting up a mode for the singer. 2010-02-06T03:47:00Z

The instantly recognizable bass line echoes humanity’s collective heartbeat. The Eternal “Stand By Me” 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The bass Morris Robinson was a stentorian and calmly authoritative Sarastro. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z

The opera calls for four singers, an onstage jazz trio of piano, tenor saxophone and bass, and an eight-piece pit orchestra. 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

As Barrow played the song’s insistent bass pattern in a chair a few feet from a hunched-over Gibbons, Utley extracted shivering notes from his guitar with a slide. Portishead at the Aragon: The wait was worth it 2011-10-13T05:07:00Z

We would actually go, soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Christian Borle, From ?Smash? to ?Peter and the Starcatcher? 2012-04-12T12:00:00Z

If you’re up for a Friday Symphony marathon, you can also hear Anderson on bass at the 7 p.m. Symphony players premiere their own work at ‘[untitled]’ 2013-04-25T23:07:35Z

And at once, Mr. Patitucci’s designs as a composer-arranger snapped into focus, with bass and guitars forming a braided strand of melodic counterpoint, intricate and buoyant. Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

I bought a new bass and a new amplifier last year and I’ve barely touched them. Psych meds dull my creativity 2013-02-26T01:00:00Z

Now it is the standard left-to-right lineup: sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler at Tanglewood 2010-07-18T21:49:00Z

“And the heat goes on,” Kidjo, singing now, declaimed over a bass riff. A Brilliant Return for a Talking Heads Album 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

“My boyfriend is our guitar player, and my bass player I’ve known forever.” Wallice, an Indie Pop Sensation from Los Angeles 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Wind chimes swirl, string sections swell, and bass lines purr. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

Creating a wall of noise with just two instruments requires a complex system of effects pedals, amps and a guitar that, on occasion, is fitted with both bass strings and regular guitar strings. Royal Blood rewrite the rules of rock 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

So new, in fact, that not everyone was initially up to speed with, say, the breakneck 140bpm of grime, or the heavy bass wobbles of dubstep. 10 reasons to wish FWD>> a happy 10th birthday 2011-08-19T15:08:48Z

Removing the mouthpiece and manipulating the angle between bell and mike allowed him to create richly layered textures, with high squeals and stutters above a dull-thudding bass line. Review: Peter Evans Teaches His Trumpet a New Vocabulary 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

So the opera needs not just a fine tenor and soprano for Carlo and Elisabeth, but also a world-class bass, mezzo-soprano and baritone. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

Spalding alternated between electric bass and double bass, playing in a fluid, captivating style. Esperanza Spalding buoyant, upbeat, winning at Paramount 2012-04-25T17:07:04Z

Track titles such as "NoSleep", "TaxiTaxi" and "Girls" set the tone, and sharply plucked strings combine with double bass and piano fragments to create momentum. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

For whatever reason, the China Philharmonic, which also enjoys power-housing, is a brighter sounding orchestra with silken strings and modest bass. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

But from one verse to the next, lower voices enter, and the final, lowering notes are given over to the bass alone, suggesting how hope curdles into bleakness. Review: In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z

The bass playing comes across as a physical force, and the vocals sound close at hand. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

When the hunters catch their quarry in the finale of “Autumn,” a snapping string suggests the lethal shot, and the bass pounds home its finality. New Music Looks at Vivaldi?s ?Four Seasons? 2010-04-01T17:07:00Z

Then the deep pounding of synchronized bass drums — dozens of them — warms my innards like a shot of my favorite Scotch. You don’t have to give up restaurants, museums or shopping during Madrid’s Holy Week 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

The trumpet, bass and drums trio is less of a rarity in jazz than it used to be though it’s still far from commonplace. New Music: BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE 2012-12-31T22:21:39Z

In addition to writing the song with Mr. Rodgers, Mr. Fraser co-produced the track with the other members of the band and plays a brief bass solo on it. Andy Fraser, Free’s Bassist, Dies at 62 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are instruments here – piano, accordion, flute, tambourine, autoharp as well as guitar and bass – but they rarely intrude, let alone smother, as was more often than not the case with the Magic Numbers. New band of the day ? No 959: Marthas & Arthurs 2011-02-02T16:37:42Z

At one point, also, the Chilean sea bass, suddenly it was so popular, it was endangered, and we had to give a break to the fish. "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

But most praised his soulful mien and resonant bass baritone, heard in enduring numbers like “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Tradition” and “Sunrise, Sunset.” Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

A typical track uses just a handful of parts, nearly all of them electronic: a bass line, a beat, only enough keyboard notes to sketch a harmony. Billie Eilish Redefines Teen-Pop Stardom on a Haunted, Heartfelt Debut Album 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Alsop is experimenting with new seating arrangements for the orchestra, here splitting the violin sections on opposite sides and moving the basses into a single row at the center back. BSO debut of ‘Oboe Concerto’ bursts with trills and colors 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The album's instrumentation is largely based around celeste, harp and double bass, the latter played pizzicato, which by modern pop standards is pretty leftfield. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon – review 2013-02-28T15:29:02Z

“I’m obsessed with harmony,” she said beforehand, and it showed in this piece for bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, piano and percussion. Review: The Philharmonic Focuses on Female Composers 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The French horn part in “celestial object II,” more assertive from the start, explores the instrument’s full range, from growling bass notes to more ecstatic high pitches. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z

Over the next two hours, Barnwell painstakingly leads each section — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — through its part. A serendipitous life: Ysaye Barnwell and the healing power of music 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

In the final movement, when the unison cellos and basses first played the “Ode to Joy” theme, Mr. Barenboim kept the tempo restrained and the sound almost inaudible. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z

“Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live,” Cropper wrote on Twitter. Donald ?Duck? Dunn, Booker T. and the MGs Bassist Dies at 70 2012-05-14T15:12:56Z

That concert was recorded, one of his first extant recordings before his first album as a leader, made nine months later with a trio that included Charles Mingus on bass and Art Blakey on drums. Paul Bley, Adventurous Jazz Pianist, Dies at 83 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Among the vocal soloists, McCormack did eloquent work throughout, as did bass Steven Combs, with his warm timbre and tender phrasing. Review | One aria sums up a joyful Washington Bach Consort ‘Christmas Oratorio’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Kiefo Nilsson, who was 8 when his father died, added bass to the album. Pop genius Harry Nilsson left an unreleased record behind. Now you can finally hear the completed version. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Steamed sea bass Given the amount of sesame oil in this, I’d be inclined to go for sake. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Four Mile Run, Arlington: A literal hot spot for fly-fishing, the water treatment plant here churns out warm water, where largemouth bass, carp, bluegill and redbreast sunfish will congregate. Perspective | Fishing for winter fun? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Some of the album uses straightforward ensembles — drums and electric bass and horns, say — or stranger ones, with piano, violin, pedal-steel guitar and muted trombone. Review: Ran Blake’s ‘Ghost Tones’ Connects With George Russell 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mosley took center stage for a driving performance of his song “Abraham,” including a virtuoso bass performance, bowed and plucked, that lived in the territory between Charles Mingus and Bootsy Collins. Review | Kamasi Washington’s playing is a mighty howl at Lincoln Theatre 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

The group might have disbanded when original bass player Matt Lukin left in 2001, but his replacement, Guy Maddison, has fit in, and all the members argue the new blood has given them renewed life. Mudhoney: After 25 years, the band is ‘now’ 2013-03-29T03:42:56Z

She pounded on drums while singing and standing up, backed by a bass player whose tone was set to reggae-level fatness, and occasionally a saxophonist. SXSW 2011 post #5: Shabazz Palaces, Tune-Yards, James Blake 2011-03-18T18:32:06Z

Paul Toenniges Double Bass I play the bass for an hour before Penn & Teller shows. Penn Jillette Lives on Hot Baths and Cold Watermelon 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

With sustained chords swooping above an octave-hopping bass line, “Autobahn” is as smooth as a half-remembered Beach Boys song in the early section that was excerpted to become a pop single. Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

On “I Need Help Immediately,” a muffled voice gasps for air beneath jaunty video-game tunes and Seinfeldian bass riffs: “Please do something.” This chaotic duo sounds like nothing and everything you’ve ever heard 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The Prophet, here the sturdy, compelling bass Kevin Burdette, is a man of utter rectitude and eerily calm authority who sees his family as a persecuted minority, just good folks trying to practice their religion. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

This group used to include another brother, the great bassist Percy Heath, who died a decade ago; its lineup, still sturdy, now includes Jeb Patton on piano and David Wong on bass. Jazz Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Silver Age” boils Mould back down to guitar, bass and drums. Album review: Bob Mould, 'Silver Age' 2012-08-31T17:46:00Z

A party at 1 Oak featured floorboard-rumbling bass and women with the physiques of flamingos. Scene City: Partying After MTV’s Video Music Awards 2013-08-28T22:47:51Z

Though he trained for the law, as a young man his looks and superb bass voice pushed him toward a career in acting and singing. Singer Robeson's granddaughter recalls fight against racism 2014-05-07T01:23:34Z

The set’s musical reach was typically wide and ambitious, touching on everything from protest folk to soul and hard rock, with Garry Tallent’s bass a towering presence throughout. Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z

Indradevi — the brainchild of two non-Cambodian musicians — will perform for the first time as a live band, offering a richly textured mix of jungle, drum and bass, dubstep, industrial rock and Southeast Asian melodies. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I use my bass voice to warm up with, before I sing countertenor. But I can’t keep up a bass voice for long — it feels odd.” James Bowman, Who Helped Resurrect the Countertenor, Dies at 81 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

This weekend he augments his usual foundation of bass and drums with a pair of pianists more than capable of joining the conversation: Orrin Evans, on Friday, and Marc Cary, on Saturday. Jazz Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:53:10Z

The song was a spider web of barely-there guitar, bass guitar, and vocals. Concert review: The xx at Showbox SoDo 04/12/10 2010-04-13T19:26:00Z

A run of hit singles peaked with the walking bass and heavenly harmonies of Stayin' Alive – much imitated, but never bettered. Readers recommend: songs with falsetto – results 2013-06-06T13:53:43Z

The song incorporated several elements that became hallmarks of the genre: a linear melody, a gentle way of singing, a series of unconventional key changes, a rhythmic dissociation of drums and bass. A Black Pianist Helped Birth Bossa Nova. His Story Is Rarely Told. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Now, his emphasis needs to be on fusing with the tonal qualities of the group, which includes two countertenors, two baritones and a bass. Artists contemplate the isolation of the Internet era through photographs 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Dunn was a self-taught bass player who had been playing in bands with Cropper since they were both in high school together in Memphis. Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great 2012-05-13T23:40:00Z

When he played bass, you knew it was him.” Robert Crafton III, Bassist and Rapper, Dies at 47 2010-03-04T07:36:00Z

“I’m a bass player with an interest in Daufuskie’s history,” she says, alternating between tales of island life and apologies. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

There was no electric guitar or bass, no keytar, no chimes. Music Review: A Jazz Man Returns to His Past 2011-01-23T22:40:51Z

Orphan With bass and drums alone, Orphan, from New York, makes big, galumphing, dirty music; its members have called it “sheet metal.” Playlist: Surfboards, Harmonies and Sheet Metal 2010-09-19T20:25:00Z

The tracks build from piano and earnest percussion toward sometimes lavish instrumentation; the saxophonist Kamasi Washington did arrangements for French horn, tuba, flute and bass clarinet. ‘I Never Thought I Would Talk About It.’ So Florence Welch Put It in a Song. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The band left the stage at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Friday after bass player Jared Followill was hit in the face by one dropping. Kings of Leon abandon U.S. concert due to pigeon poop 2010-07-26T04:37:00Z

On Jan. 2 at 9 p.m., he leads his knockabout trio at the Stone, with Chris Tordini on bass and David King on drums. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The bass player was expected to testify Thursday. Tejano star Emilio sued over DWI-related bus wreck 2011-01-06T14:03:16Z

“None of them knows how to use bass like this man.” A $200,000-a-Night D.J. Known as Kaskade Is Really Ryan Raddon, a Mormon 2011-11-09T23:24:42Z

Perahia’s golden sound was on full display in Schubert’s four Impromptus, D 935, though inexplicably explosive bass fortissimos created a jarring effect. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

A concert next Saturday at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Met features Chahrokh Elahi, his son, and pieces for double bass and lute that fuse Eastern and Western melodies. Ostad Elahi, a Tanbur Master, Is Celebrated at Met Museum 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Throughout the set she is in motion – dancing, jittering, and, on the new song Tropical Chancer, playing air bass. La Roux – review 2013-03-29T17:06:00Z

Then, in 1968, Grimes moved to California, failed to find work, sold his bass and disappeared from the public eye so completely that some thought he was dead. Perspective | The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Across the street, a bass line: “Young Americans.” Scenes from the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Sting slipped onstage, bass in hand, during a short set by the rapper Common, taking over the band to sing “Every Breath You Take” and an appropriate Global Citizen song, “One World.” Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

As on a fine recent album, “Reverse Thread,” she offers her buoyant interpretation of West African music in this Carnegie Hall Family Concert, with an ace ensemble featuring kora, accordion, bass and drums. Jazz Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:16:07Z

He used to be bass player and singer in the Beatles. Let's raise a glass to lovely, swampy, droning, booming bass 2013-05-29T19:00:00Z

Thanks to an astute bass player, they survived. Remembering Chuck Berry, Who Died at Ninety 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

“I took my bass with me, and the three of us jammed that night,” Mr. McBride recalled, chuckling. Christian McBride, Newport Jazz Festival Star, Becomes a Backstage Player 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The family of the Metropolitan Opera bass Cesare Siepi is holding a celebration of his life at the Bruno Walter Auditorium on Saturday at 6 p.m. ArtsBeat: Cesare Siepi Celebration Announced 2011-03-11T21:45:16Z

Cacophonous outbursts, eerie violin lines that unfold over a double bass drone, frantic pizzicati and an underlying urgency hint at an unpleasant outcome. Music Review: ‘collected stories’ at Zankel Hall Explores a Tragic Tale 2014-04-27T20:52:58Z

The bass pulses steadily; around it, Bernice’s singer and songwriter, Robin Dann, unfolds an analytical, self-dissecting love song, teetering between present and past: “He gave me something to think about,” she notes. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The vibrancy of the strings, with the double basses anchoring a rich sound, and the responsiveness of the whole ensemble to Bělohlávek's flexible approach to phrasing and tempo was carefully honed. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Bělohlávek – review 2013-04-18T15:44:05Z

Its instruments are acoustic and electric guitars and electric bass, with a lone hand drum for percussion. Music Review | Tinariwen: Hot Breath of Saharan Rock Blows in From Africa 2010-02-19T23:22:00Z

Bombastic drums and a steamy bass line added intensity to his slinky hometown homage “The Beach,” a clear-eyed opening song that also worked as a road map to the different avenues of heartache. At the Howard Theater, R&B singer Giveon stretches his vocal chops before a sellout crowd 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mark Evans, who played bass for AC/DC in the nineteen-seventies, once wrote that Malcolm was “the driven one … the planner, the schemer, the ‘behind the scenes guy,’ ruthless and astute.” The Brothers Who Built AC/DC 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

But then I did make a mistake in being really confident: I went for one of those jazz basses that didn't have frets … MJ: Your thumb was growing so big. Clash city rockers – Mick Jones and Paul Simonon recall the glory days 2013-05-23T17:11:06Z

Instead, he found himself broke in Los Angeles in 1990, when Scream’s shows were canceled, he said, because the bass player disappeared. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Garfield's Taizo Curry was recognized as an outstanding performer on bass trombone and trumpeter and pianist Julian Garvue was recognized an outstanding performer, as well. Eckstein Middle School cleans up at Reno Jazz Festival 2012-05-04T19:42:03Z

Focusing on the dancier side of her catalogue, Richard was a siren over propulsive grooves, synthesized melodies and waves of bass. Dawn Richard continues the part at the fringes of electronic R&B at DC9 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

The songs sound similar, with rope-skipping drums and elastic bass from Swedish producer Max Martin, who still works with both artists. City Arts Fest and Robyn's mature dance pop 2011-10-13T15:35:04Z

The remastered “Low” has a bigger, rougher bass, and Mr. Visconti made a purist’s choice not to use digital noise reduction against analog tape hiss, as previous reissues have. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Carroll, the lead singer, and Bobby Phillips, the bass vocalist, decided to leave the Carnations and add two more members to form a new group under Navarro's management. Earl Carroll 2012-11-30T15:57:39Z

“Self Portrait in Ultramarine” begins with arpeggios that suggest church organs, submerging and resurfacing amid pools of whooshing pink noise while deeper bass tones loom. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

A fusion of European dance pop with the bass and stuttering percussion of British dubstep, it's music that's both cool and cheesy at the same time; a heady combination. Tinie Tempah: specs to success 2011-01-13T19:00:06Z

The opening Blue Blocks allows Mateen's bass to twist melodies around tumbling piano chords. Jason Moran: Ten 2010-08-19T21:29:00Z

For the members of this collective trio — Mark Turner on tenor saxophone, Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums — it represents the attainment of an equilibrium and the refinement of a strategy. New Music: New Albums From Grace Potter, Josh Turner and Fly 2012-06-11T22:38:11Z

“We live to rock,” bass player Flea told the crowd, “but unfortunately there’s a medical thing that happened and we need to deal with it, so we’re unable tonight.” Red Hot Chili Peppers Cancel Shows After Kiedis Taken Ill 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The bass still had a Beatles set list taped to it. When Paul McCartney teamed up with Elvis Costello, the Beatle got back on track 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

We were issued with electric bikes so we could whizz around the site, and an old Land Rover for transporting Arnie's double bass. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z

I visited the town to shoot a segment in a TV show about Moroccan food, and my first task was to grill a whole sea bass over fire in an open-air restaurant. When Cooking Is About Ease, Not ‘Easy’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The rest of the ensemble stoked the furnace with grinding guitar, loping bass lines and tumultuous drumming and percussion. Trombone Shorty no mere blowhard 2011-04-05T14:44:00Z

Producing the countertenor voice, Mr. Bowman told The Sunday Telegraph, involved “using the edge of your vocal cords, and neglecting the central part, which is the bass area.” James Bowman, Who Helped Resurrect the Countertenor, Dies at 81 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

This is Parker’s first solo release on Delmark, a label based in our shared hometown, Chicago, with Chad Taylor on drums and Chris Lopes on bass. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The refrain is simultaneously inclusive and ominous, as it’s repeatedly howled over a sinister bass line. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

The venue built its reputation with body-shaking bass and late-night dance parties, not crowds of squealing fans and their patient parents. Charlie Puth’s show in D.C. was an exercise in the banal and inoffensive 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Conductor Angie Benson’s band of guitars, keyboards, bass and drums — situated in and above the stage — drowns out some of the singers. Review | A galvanizing ‘Rent’ raises pulses as it welcomes audiences back to Signature Theatre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

His own band, Continuum, includes Ben Street on bass, Andrew Cyrille on drums and Román Díaz as a kind of drum-and-voice integrated hybrid: conga playing, chanted singing, rhythmic poetry. Music Review: David Virelles Continuum, at the Village Vanguard 2013-02-01T23:04:26Z

But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another band at the time. 1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play? 2013-05-10T06:32:08Z

In the first part the two tenors and the bass perform as narrators setting the scene: we are about to meet a lovesick woman deserted by her lover. Music Review: ‘Venezia, From the Streets to the Palaces,’ at Miller Theater 2012-09-13T22:25:32Z

He developed a guitar style that allowed him to play bass, rhythm and lead in the same song — this with the movement of only two fingers. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Maggie, used to performing the duet “River Road” with her bass player, was stunned when Austin approached the stage, microphone in hand, ready to sing. Country star Maggie Rose finds her own love story in Music City. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Its opener, Eubie Blake’s “Memories of You,” starts out with a pulse like pulled taffy, but soon a walking bass line emerges and we’re in knowable terrain. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z

Booming bass may be bad for your ears, but it’s good for business, says Teri Bothwell, group fitness director of Sport & Health. If you think the music at your gym is too loud, that’s because it probably is 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

And on old disco tracks, the bass drum was always recorded separately, so Clem had to pound away on a foot-pedal for three hours until they got a take they were happy with. How we made: Heart of Glass 2013-04-29T15:27:00Z

The Lyric Opera of Chicago is doing “Don Quichotte,” which is a glorious showcase for a bass. The sorely neglected opera that, performed like WCO did, could make opera a hit 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kratzsch and Mr. Flanigan alternated bass playing and brass solos; Ross moved from piano to drums; and Don stayed on guitar. Ross Barbour, a Founding ?Freshman,? Dies at 82 2011-08-24T05:00:33Z

Ware was a regular at drum 'n' bass club nights in London with her girlfriends, and became enamored with TLC, Destiny's Child and Brit singers such as Sade and Annie Lennox. Jessie Ware is loud but subtle, and spot on 2013-07-25T20:19:00Z

At Riverside Church, the bass section of the Chorale Le Chateau strongly anchored the fugue, and the altos lent it clarity. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

One of the band's trademarks was that they had no permanent bass player, since Manzarek supplied the bass lines from the keyboard with his left hand. Ray Manzarek 2013-05-21T17:33:43Z

In that distant age, he played Shakespeare’s Othello in blackface and with a rolling, booming bass voice, while Smith played his wronged love, Desdemona, with mellifluous dignity and grace. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

They revisit the premise here in trio form, with Mr. Street on bass. Jazz Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

His lineup: bass, drums, trumpet, trombone, sax — with a twist. Review: Singing and Dancing the Postwar Blues in ‘Bandstand’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

“The long bass solos, the tenor solos, you name it,” he said on the podcast. Creed Taylor, Producer Who Shaped Jazz for Decades, Dies at 93 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Italian opera was largely high-voice dominated, and of course relied heavily on extreme coloratura, whereas in the French tradition, you're dealing with female sopranos but no castrati, as well as basses and very high tenors. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z

An earlier version of this review, using information from a publicist, misidentified the bass player in the Onyx Collective. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Along the Tidal Basin, Kenneth Levy Richardson was fishing for bluegills, crappies and bass. What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Lines is a sunny uplands of a song, startlingly intersected by a volley of cannon-fire bass; Night Bus is a deceptively sweet thing that sympathetically depicts a coven of depressed night people. Lucy Rose: Like I Used To – review 2012-09-27T21:25:01Z

I miss playing music Topics: , , Musicians, being in a band, Bands, touring, recording, clubs, bass players, guitars, songwriting, songs, performing, I am/was a bass player. I miss playing music 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Absurd as it sounds, catching bass with conventional gear that morning began to seem almost too easy. Some day my largemouth bass will come 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

By the time he was 18, he was playing bass in clubs. Howard Rumsey, bass player who built a center of West Coast jazz, dies at 97 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Interesting, that position, like the bass in the band. Hiroyuki Sanada Lays Down His Sword for Shohei Ohtani and 10,000 Steps 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Only when you see the “Analogue” images over their entire span do you begin to hear the expressive score they’re set to: a slow, plangent bass note. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The rhythm of the snare drum, the rhythm of the high hat, the sample, the way it’s chopped, the poetry, the bass line— it all came from me. J.Cole: "I Don't Want 'Beat Yeezus' On My Tombstone" 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Rare works by Mr. Zorn here, that steadfast presence in what used to be called the downtown scene, and all hewing to the format of a notated piano part with improvised bass and percussion. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

One of their basses, Eamonn Dougan, ran a Singing Day that with improbable effectiveness for six hours’ work drilled Cumnock amateurs into the basis for a chorus that will hopefully become a fixture. Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

She draws from the album here, with an adaptable rhythm section of Jason Lindner on piano, Joe Martin on bass and Daniel Freedman on drums. Jazz Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Simon’s band brought rubbery bass lines, washboard and spoons, percolating hand percussion and sinewy guitar chatter via Africa, Jamaica and Louisiana. Paul Simon and Sting at the United Center 2014-02-26T06:48:00Z

Deep with bass and woven with synthetic texture, the album offers more evidence of a city in the midst of a grand hip-hop renaissance. Essential Tracks: Vertical Scratchers, Schoolboy Q, St. Vincent, more 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

The second movement, with its stately themes and walking bass patterns, is Bruckner at his most inspired. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z

A framed photograph taken just before the performance, with Ms. Clark, an alto, near the front and Mr. Clark, a bass, near the back, dominates the living room of their home here. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z

I could hear car stereos boom past with the bass pounding, and the sounds of two men shouting. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z

There were 18 musicians and singers, including Bob Babbitt on bass and Eddie Willis on guitar from the 1960s Funk Brothers. Music Review: Phil Collins Plays Motown at the Roseland Ballroom 2010-06-24T21:18:00Z

It took Senchukov six months and 27,000 matchsticks to create a bass musical instrument in the shape of a trident, the Ukrainian coat of arms, which he now plays in the band. Ukrainian artist strikes a chord with matchsticks 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, “The Light Within” unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

They were all just delaying the appearance of Mr. West, who got the bass cranked up even more when he took the stage just before 2:30 a.m. ArtsBeat: SXSW, Brought to You by G.O.O.D. 2011-03-21T04:23:05Z

He had begun to circulate as a sideman, working with artists like Ian Hunter, whose solo album “All American Alien Boy” features a bravura 16-bar bass solo on its title track. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a sort of long-necked amplified lute with extra bass strings, which he played with considerable artistry and discretion. Composer Aaron Grad shares his ‘Old-Fashioned Love Songs’ at the Mansion at Strathmore

“You ready for the bass?” she soon asked the crowd, transitioning into her big hit to cheers of recognition. Meghan Trainor Enters Spotlight With ‘Title’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

There's one song that sounds like reggae metal – meggae? rettle? – and another comprising four notes repeated over a buzzing, wobbling bass note. New band of the day ? No 923: Alex Clare 2010-12-03T16:33:00Z

The fresh flavour of palla is incomparable, but the unusual spice blend also works really well with sea bass or trout. My nani’s firni and a sea bass masala recipe | Cook residency 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

During “Burn,” the bandleader arranged kinetic motifs for strings, percussion and bass clarinet alongside chattering vocal pyrotechnics — all while fostering a paradoxical sense of ease. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

To cap it all, out in the Courtyard expect classic house and space bass from Vast'n'Bulbous. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

From the opening rumbling in the basses, effectively projected in the sensitive Disney Hall acoustics, the score's suspense never let up. Pablo Heras-Casado leads the L.A. Philharmonic through a riveting performance of Ravel and Stravinsky 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Rustie produces blinding rave beats, bright and shiny with fat bass tones. A booming set from Scottish DJ Rustie at U Street Music Hall

Grass Skirts A band, accompanied by a trio of hula dancers, played traditional Hawaiian music during a dinner that featured short ribs and sea bass. Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

As a student in Brighton he put together a band to play his songs, enlisting his cousin Oscar Cash and Gabriel Stebbing to play keyboards and bass. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

Springsteen sustains a croon, backed by a pedal steel guitar, a cottony bass line and a string section; there’s a meditative instrumental outro. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Then I bet you’ll sense how the sequence of bass notes and harmonies permeates the subsequent variations, even when the music goes through exciting contrasts. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

But her current touring lineup is simply a four-piece rock band — two guitars, bass and drums — to which Ms. Arby sometimes adds her own percussion on hand drum or calabash. Music Review: Mixing Electric Funk With Joyful Malian Wails 2011-03-06T22:51:02Z

When Spalding is at her best, the music surges uninterrupted from the low notes of her bass to the stratospheric pitches of her soprano. Spalding wins a big one for jazz 2011-02-14T14:56:00Z

Judge Kronstadt determined that there was a genuine dispute as to whether several elements - including signature phrases, hooks, bass lines, keyboard chords and vocal melodies - were similar. Blurred Lines dispute to go to trial 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The bass rattled through my body, awakening my spirit. Before Jan. 6, I knew violence was coming. I know how far men like Trump will go to win 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

This time, back at the same club, the group is different again: a quartet with the pianist David Virelles, Mr. Morgan on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Music Review: Tomasz Stanko Quartet at Jazz Standard 2012-06-01T20:54:33Z

The walls shake with hefty bass and anything on the record that sounded tinny suddenly booms. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night six: Techno Pop 2013-02-13T12:05:42Z

A thick fillet of black sea bass shares its plate with a composition of zucchini, eggplant and tomato, and baked lobster is stunning alongside purple potatoes. Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon Opens 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Really cool stuff, like Miami booty bass mixed with house. Claude VonStroke's favourite tracks 2012-11-24T00:05:40Z

Photograph: 02:31 The sound of a fight starting in a rave is unmistakable, the hostile grumble in immediate discord with the bubbling bass. Jackin proves dance music is alive and bouncing – but mostly outside London 2013-05-28T15:51:00Z

"I initially didn't pay attention to the bass or single it out," Valentine says, "But I paid more attention to the bass in the Beatles songs than any other music." Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s on her Beatles love and bass player parallels with Paul McCartney 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

He caught and released over 50 largemouth bass fishing the points off the sand dunes. Potholes Reservoir offers fun autumn fishing choices for variety of species 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

This wily, offbeat group features four woodwinds, two cellos, viola, bass and drums. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Dressed in baggy white pants and a billowing button-down shirt, Cox alternated between singing, sneering, smashing chords on his guitar and playing the bass. Review | Deerhunter brings its earsplitting sonic tingle to odd and wonderful 9:30 Club show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Expect wry, hilarious non sequiturs muttered in between songs — like “Them Changes” and “Show You the Way” — that will be full of elastic funk grooves and blistering bass solos. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

In the first movement, subtle, rolling bass frequencies in the percussion bloomed and seemed to organically inspire intense pianistic volleys between Trifonov and Babayan. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fischer’s solution arrayed the double basses high across the rear of the stage, made a bowl for the rest of the strings and perched the woodwinds in between, projecting through the tumult. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Reflecting their hardly strictly professional status, the Wronglers proved thoroughly competent but unexceptional accompanists, as the fiddles shimmied over the fleet, loping blend of acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin and bass. Jimmie Dale Gilmore takes another unusual turn 2011-06-26T14:59:00Z

At that time, the band said its longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, would fill in on bass, slide guitar and harmonica. ZZ Top: Bearded bassist Dusty Hill dies in his sleep at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

The accordion sometimes provides the still centre in either the high treble or the lowest bass around which the strings scurry and twirl, or sometimes holding sustained chords for the other instruments to ricochet off. Rihm: Fetzen; String Quartet No 12; Interscriptum ? review 2011-01-27T22:45:02Z

A Mediterranean influence on the menu isn't always so successful: a nicely steamed sea bass is totally overwhelmed by the accompanying exotic fruit salad. Food picks of the week 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

Mr. Morgan, on bass, kept his head down, producing notes with big resonance, manufacturing ballast. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z

“He could be on the phone talking about something that’s really serious and hear — from a different room — whether a bass line is off,” Sheppard said in an interview last week. Yasiin Bey was one of rap’s brightest stars. His farewell concert was a stirring reminder. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Michael Champion of the band Champs, who played bass on the song, liked it enough to contact Hall, who asked to meet them, much to their disbelief. Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Várdai produced a sonorous bass register, especially in Bach’s Suite for Solo Cello No. 5. Review | Hungarian cellist is upstaged by a centuries-old Strad 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The gigantic main stage speakers did Butler's bass and drums sublime justice, booming and cracking with tectonic force. Sasquatch! 2010 day one notables: Shabazz Palaces, Nurses, Vampire Weekend 2010-05-30T18:46:00Z

Both use a "passacaglia" or "ground bass", and share an intensity and sobriety of mood. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z

An extended sequence dominated by snare drums and bass drums, their sound gradually swelling to oppressive proportions, seemed to reflect the dual military qualities of discipline and violence. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Brennan said students will get the opportunity to learn to sing or play guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. Alice Cooper kicks off South Dakota rock academy 2012-10-11T01:16:10Z

The drummer and vibraphonist Kate Gentile has a new album out this month featuring a quartet she calls Mannequins: Jeremy Viner on reeds, Matt Mitchell on piano and electronics, and Adam Hopkins on bass. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

His thumb-slapping electric bass technique is the first and last thing that confronts a listener on “Renaissance,” framing the album as an object lesson in the temptations of virtuosity. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z

He said he pulled into a spot next to an SUV where music with a "thumping" bass was playing. Closing arguments in trial over loud music death 2014-02-12T13:53:11Z

Fay Victor, singing that song’s supplication — “Holy spirit/Ascend in me” — adopted a firm, unbending tone, as Mr. Parker punctuated the sentiment with a concert bass drum. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z

I flipped over a few times and was told I wasn’t going to play bass again. Bootsy Collins: ‘LSD was a big part of why I left James Brown’s band’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

The song establishes a solid bass drive from the start, backed by a cheery whistled accompaniment. Billboard singles reviews: Stone Temple Pilots, Macy Gray 2010-04-02T21:57:00Z

I played multiple instruments, including playing the piano for 20 years and the bass guitar for two. Psych meds dull my creativity 2013-02-26T01:00:00Z

Meanwhile, southern species like black sea bass are moving north of Cape Cod, new territory for them. Have you eaten your last lobster? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The bass eventually plummets downward, only to rise again. Perspective | Lizzo is everything. Is that enough? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

They also played old-time string music, heavy on the upright bass, dobro and shouted vocals. Young bands breathe new life into acoustic roots music at Northwest Folklife Festival 2010-05-29T03:55:00Z

The bass' pulsating thud, thud, thud was loud enough to rattle the melting ice cubes in my glass and draw José back out of his seat again. "One more round for my friends": Notes on becoming a "regular" 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Jones would set everything up so Grohl could come in and lay down the drums, then a couple of guitar tracks and a bass part in that order, saving vocals for the last two days. Foo Fighters’ Hall of Fame journey began with 2 friends in a Seattle studio 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Starting unpromisingly with the sounds of heartbeats and breathing, it gathered rhythmic force, at first with voices alone and then with drums, bass notes and blasts of brass. Alvin Ailey Troupe Debuts ‘The Pleasure of the Lesson’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

“Stranger” is a hushed piece for voice, piano and bass. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Customers can opt for baited hooks to snag rainbow trout, salmon trout, fluke, shrimp, flounder, farmed striped bass, rockfish, lobster or abalone swimming in the pools. At Zauo, Diners Can Catch Their Own Dinners 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

It was just me, a drummer, standup bass, and a guitar player. Macy Gray turns back the clock: “I kind of learned how to sing listening to jazz albums” 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Riding disco bass and salsa-fied piano, “Ruin” sounds like it’s dancing on the planet’s grave. Album review: Cat Power, 'Sun' 2012-09-04T14:34:00Z

This circle of D.J.’s had been working on “bass music” as a labor of love for years before the music industry took notice, he said. Skrillex to Play at Webster Hall and Roseland 2012-01-26T23:36:04Z

It wasn’t long ago that the pumped-up, obvious four-on-the-floor beats and titanic bass tones of electronic dance music propelled pop hits. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

They sat next to each other in the local choir, and played in the orchestra — Mr. Gerhaher on viola, Mr. Huber on double bass. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Deftly improvising ingenious figures with his right hand while punching out rumbling bass lines with his left, he managed to evoke boogie-woogie pianists like Meade Lux Lewis and beboppers like Bud Powell simultaneously. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

But then, with some scribbles and a squawk, it dissolves, giving way to a dexterous bass solo, or a drone, and they’re chasing another vision. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

That opening outdoor background surf music was Art Jarvinen's "Endless Bummer" for electric guitar and electric bass. Evening of tangerine dreams as wild Up makes its Santa Barbara debut 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Dengler, whose main role in Interpol was, er, playing bass, had become sick of the instrument and tired of touring, according to drummer Sam Fogarino. Interpol: Carlos D 'really, really didn't like the bass' 2010-08-12T11:52:00Z

“I wanted to be able to slide and bend notes as I’d learnt to do with the violin, and so decided to take all the frets off the bass guitar,” he explained. Mick Karn, Bassist in the Group Japan, Dies at 52 2011-01-05T23:54:25Z

If he had been an improvising instrumentalist alone, Mingus would have been a jazz legend simply for his bass playing. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z

At the Grammys, the British pop singer and songwriter gave us a glimpse of the other side — glitter, flashing lights, throbbing bass lines, people dusting off ’70s dance moves, slight awkwardness. The Best and Worst of the 2021 Grammy Awards 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

He asked the musicians to play a section of the symphony without the cellos and basses, then with them. Dennis Prager draws classical newbies, and a musicians' boycott, at Disney Hall concert 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

At one festival, his bass player accidentally knocked out the power to everything except Brooks’s guitar and microphone. Everyone wants Garth Brooks on their side. He just wants everyone to get along. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Liquid Diamonds lives up to its title, aqueous and luxurious, as Amos submerges and re-emerges from a sea of drums, bass and piano. My favourite album: Tori Amos ? From the Choirgirl Hotel 2011-08-12T11:01:06Z

The group's instrumentation is piano, drums, bass and vibraharp. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z

He played his upright bass at nightclubs and festivals as well as weddings and bar mitzvahs. Jazz funeral planned for musician Ben Tucker 2013-06-07T21:36:09Z

His voice pipes like a steaming teakettle when he’s angry and occasionally drops to a creepy bass as he issues orders to kill. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

I guess I did, but I didn’t really ever feel like a competent bass player. Kim Gordon, Ex-Sonic Youth, Never Trained for This Career 2013-09-06T15:39:47Z

Then other layers materialized from two more guitars, bass and drums: overlapping arpeggios, brief melodic lines, drumbeats that tapped lightly and grew increasingly martial and, sooner or later, the frenetic shimmer of tremolo-strummed chords. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z

Except, that is, for bursts of Ellington energy and some restless Mingus-like bass lines. Music Review: Expectations Are Made to Be Upended 2011-01-12T22:00:01Z

The hipster with the iPad is a bass guitarist — he lives in a loft with his chums in Brooklyn. ArtsBeat: The Hot and Sweaty Side of Summer Reading 2011-06-06T14:00:27Z

The sound is appropriately violent and unruly, Bean's drums rolling and tumbling around McCombs' strident bass lines and Rizzo's sheets-of-sound guitar, while Greenberg's keyboards spackle the cracks in the arrangements with drone. Eleventh Dream Day won't wait 2011-04-21T18:34:11Z

Their father, a musician in the 1980s, plays bass and guitar with the band. A band of contradictions 2012-11-22T07:44:23Z

The local fish that are generally available, like striped bass, sea bass and fluke, are perfect for it. How to make ceviche at home, according to a professional chef 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Instead, as the album’s title suggests, it’s a sonic register: low and deep, Mr. Landrus’s natural range on baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, bass flute and bass clarinet. Review: Brian Landrus Trio’s ‘The Deep Below’ Is All About the Bass End 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, Mr. Cranshaw was among the first jazz bassists to adopt the electric bass guitar as his primary instrument. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The heaving lower strings and bass drum are the ground shifting beneath our feet. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Town Crank” hurtles into motion, starting with dry, jittery acoustic guitar before mustering a full sonic barrage: a relentless electronic bass line, blasts of drums and distortion, orchestral flurries. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

My sound in Chicago was more syncopated, like the bass line on 'Come on Sock it to Me.' Soul great's 'Mythology' rings true 2010-11-26T15:04:00Z

"Hello Mum," muttered the principal double bass player into his phone, looking only mildly embarrassed. National Youth Orchestra; BBC Proms – review 2012-08-04T23:06:13Z

Main courses might feature bass in a cumin-lemon “tagine” sauce or langoustine meat bathed in a creamy concoction of shell broth, butter and truffle slices — a sublime meeting of sea, dairy and forest. 36 Hours in Paris: On the Seine 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

I played organ, bass, electric guitar and two little percussion toys. How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z

Nick Harmer drove the songs with plunging, lumbering bass line reinforced by the rustle and snap of Jason McGerr's high hat cymbals and snare drum. Death Cab's Metro show an intimate preview of new songs 2011-05-21T13:56:00Z

The band — Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano, David King on drums — has a rugged but supersensitive rapport that can transform any material it touches. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z

He keeps a bass guitar and a small amplifier in his office, having played since he picked up the instrument in junior high school. Door of opportunity swings wide for new 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Lester Holt 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

“I bought one of those scrunchy things, but it just didn’t work,” said Mr. Anderson, who also plays bass guitar for a gothic rock band called River Wild. Noticed: In Brooklyn, Committing to a Man Bun 2012-01-25T15:49:42Z

Stepping plays the low bass of stamping feet against the higher pitches of hands slapping chests, bellies, thighs and hands, sometimes hands that meet underneath a raised leg. Dance Review: Soul Steps and Dance Theater of Ireland - Review 2011-11-23T23:44:41Z

When he sat down and played his songs, it blew my mind, because it was the first time I saw up close somebody playing melody, rhythm and bass lines at the same time. Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

When our bass player, Keith, first came up with the idea, we all got so excited that none of us wanted to wait 14 months before starting. Twelve tips for the Flaming Lips 2011-01-12T14:09:59Z

Ben Williams has a dark, righteous sound on an upright bass, and an almost liquid mobility through the fullness of his range. Review: Ben Williams Steps Up on ‘Coming of Age’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

There are recognizable through lines, such as Grimes’s artificially sped-up vocals and an emphasis on bass. Grimes wages battle with herself on the wild and wonderful ‘Art Angels’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The verse proceeds over the same static harmony, with a new bass riff introduced halfway through, effecting a shift to a higher dynamic level. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

The tracks, mostly in minor keys, are bass heavy, unhurried and unexpectedly thoughtful. Playlist: New Albums by Pretty Lights, India Arie, Thriftstore Masterpiece, Daughn Gibson and Cheyenne Mize 2013-07-05T16:58:42Z

The classic 007 bass line rises, rather obviously, in the piano. Skyfall, Adele's Bond theme, is a deliciously languid ballad 2012-10-02T18:30:50Z

Both the countertenor, Jay Carter, and the bass, Dominik Wörner, overloaded their initial arias with ornamentation, then pretty much lost interest in later ones. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Oddly, I think the cellist quite frequently takes this role – perhaps because they are so often playing the bass line that holds the music together. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z

Gone was the raucous banging bass and the videos cobbled together from old movies and YouTube clips about Sheen. Sheen's show gets makeover 2011-04-04T03:34:00Z

Even as the harmony develops and mutates, Stewart saunters along, his bass keeping the song in a steady rhythmic pocket. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The bass line bounces up and down an octave within a dense thicket of other sounds: chirps, blips, whistles, swoops, taps, glassy sustained tones and now and then, for comic relief, a burp. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

As a result fine details — the full shimmer of a cymbal, the vibrating wood of a bass, the sense of real people playing in a real space — get a little bit smeared. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

On “The Tunnel,” Sigurd Hole’s bass is way up in the mix, sometimes pooling like spilled glue, elsewhere making melodies with long, mournful shapes. The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

In fact, the release that put her on the map, No Doubt’s “Tragic Kingdom,” was written after her breakup with the band’s bass player, Tony Kanal. Gwen Stefani will tell you what the truth feels like at KeyArena 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

When he released his third album, The Original High, last summer, he introduced his fans to a more mature soulful sound carried by a heavier synthpop bass. Listen to Adam Lambert's New Track 'Welcome to the Show' 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Big crowds or fame were never the goal, said Frankie May, a childhood friend who became her bass player. 'Idol' finalist can't wait to reveal her own songs 2010-05-24T12:16:00Z

Sometimes the panels fall away, and a single image, such as a silhouette of his musician father playing bass, will fill the page, evocative of Craig Thompson’s losing-my-religion coming-of-age memoir, “Blankets.” Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The show will serve as a special homecoming of sorts, says the 23-year-old bass house artist. Seattle DJ Kendoll returns for homecoming concert as a fully formed professional producer 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

It was Oh who kept the beat, providing impediments of her own with unexpected chords on the electric bass, while Wendel and Stevens doubled on a slowly developing melody. Review | An evening of exceptional rhythm from jazz bassist Linda Oh 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Speaking of many, many levels ... ,” he said, trailing off as the band started the hurtling beat and buzzing synthesizer bass line of the next song, “Dancing Choose.” Music Review: Frenetic Intimations of, Yes, Positivity 2011-04-14T21:41:50Z

It was Mr. Blake’s loudest moment, but it wasn’t noisy, not even when Mr. Assister dove heavily into a beat, the night’s most intricate, that was a variant on vintage drum ’n’ bass. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z

“That first slide hit the wall — it was our bass player, blowing up his cardboard bass case, in the desert, with M-80s,” Diltz said. He Won’t Stop Taking Pictures Until He’s Partying on the Other Side 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

“The voices were a perfect blend from first tenor to the second tenor to baritone bass. And we had one of the greatest lead singers in Detroit and it just happened just like that.” Duke Fakir details the Four Tops musical bond in new book 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

And when I went to college the bass player from Talk Talk was there. Alison Moyet: 'I smashed all my gold discs. There were hundreds' 2013-04-18T19:00:00Z

Balances were off, with some amusingly out-of-whack emphases in the woodwinds, timpani, bass drum and tuba. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The curtain-raising title track takes flight with Queen-ish blasts of a cappella harmony, then follows acoustic guitars and banjos as they run from a tidal wave of artificial bass. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

“You suddenly had two generations of tall bass players,” he joked. Mudhoney: After 25 years, the band is ‘now’ 2013-03-29T03:42:56Z

Three chords and a dancing bass will do; thank you very much. Power chords and Pollock: Art history and a theoretical superstructure of punk 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The song has a menacing bass line and a righteous catalogue of wrongs: “I cleaned your shirts and cooked up your supper, but you stayed out late at night.” Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

She ended up putting me in the second bass section, and obviously I’ve been there ever since. The Oak Ridge Boys and their famous baritone are still going strong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The lead single, Rabbits In A Hurry, is, enthuses Savidge, "basically, a big bass guitar and loads of weird noises". Kompakt bring guitars to techno 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

That is until an undulating bass wobble arrives in lieu of the chorus and hovers over the song like a storm cloud. New music: Alis – Twist the Rule 2012-05-23T11:40:06Z

Schubert’s gravely beautiful “Death and the Maiden” sounded Mahlerian and starkly ominous, with Mr. Goerne, his voice dark and expressive, backed by a string quartet and bass instead of a piano. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The orchestra somewhat incongruously included cellos and double basses, which laid down simple bass lines, but the bulk of the ensemble played long melodies in unison with the actor/singer. Peking Opera at Kennedy Center has the right moves, if not the best sounds

His bristling bass instantly changed the energy in the scene, adding ludicrous tension and unmuffled anger that came off as deliriously silly. In Jerry Stiller, the Rage of Jewish Fathers Found a Hilarious Outlet 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

He had a stellar four-piece band, but it was McCartney’s performance on bass, guitar, and piano that was most impressive, as he jogged between instruments. McCartney concert: a moment in history 2013-07-20T17:12:28Z

The first music from Seattle label Hush Hush was "Escape Pod" by 21-year-old Seattle producer Kid Smpl — floaty bass music perfect for doing moon salutations in your midnight outdoor yoga class. Album reviews: 'Coexist' by The xx and two more 2012-09-18T16:39:06Z

When the stirring central tune of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 first emerges, a few minutes into the piece, it’s very soft in the cellos and basses. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The admin officer plays the cello, the learning mentor plays the double bass. Schoolchildren star at BBC Proms 2013-09-02T15:14:53Z

The 30-strong period instrument band phrased the pieces beautifully and buoyantly but were a little anaemic in tone, needing beefier bass in the Usher Hall. King Arthur – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-29T09:08:59Z

His line was fluid and supple, his touch light, so that even the thwacks of the bass drum in the “Dies Irae” were forwardly propulsive and part of a bigger picture. Review | Noseda gives new lightness to powerful and familiar Requiem 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Four decades later, The Kweskin band featured the jug playing of Fritz Richmond, considered a virtuoso on both the jug and the washtub bass. Jug band duo Muldaur, Kweskin return to their roots 2010-12-07T23:04:00Z

I think “Abstract-Contact” is reminiscent of past releases because there are the traditional elements of bass and drums, and we’re back in the world of fairly traditional chord patterns, beats, and grooves. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

But it is hardly a disadvantage to hear a beautifully focused bass baritone equally effective in pop, opera and spoken. Race, justice, power: Finding new relevance in Kurt Weill's 'Lost in the Stars' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Beck even dropping bombs on his bass drum. Blues Alley offers big shoes for Cyrus Chestnut, but he’s got a pair of his own 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Spalding played electric bass throughout the show with zippy flair but also a hard, focused restraint. Review: Esperanza Spalding Recalls the Creativity of Youth in New Songs 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Thundercat’s insistent bass line and backing vocals add a funky jolt to the group’s “Cracker Island,” a sleek and summery jam that happens to be about … a made-up cult? Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

This was one of those rare gigs where the audience even bellowed out the bass lines and guitar riffs. The Stone Roses live at Warrington Parr Hall – review 2012-05-24T09:45:09Z

An offshoot of reggae, with deeper bass and faster tempo, dancehall is a culture in and of itself. The Grammys Are on Sunday. She’s Already Won. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

One of the pleasures of all this tension was the amplified release: when Mr. Lovano got a brisk open lane in “Sprints,” against a walking bass line, the effect was exhilarating. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z

One of the reasons the Beatles’ songs sound so rich is the depth of composition, the melodic and harmonic layers – and McCartney’s ability to straddle rhythm and melody on bass was critical. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z

This year there was also an impressive work by a bass player, Benjamin Shirley, whose life fell apart through substance abuse and who spent two years homeless. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

The only full-blown composition was Paul Motian’s “Victoria,” a sober hymn whose melody unfurled on both piano and bass, in slow-drift octaves. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

They’re such a raw, powerful sound — bass guitar, a floor tom and two vocals. How Baltimore and a Viral ‘Letterman’ Moment Pushed Future Islands to ‘The Far Field’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

The elegant performance preceded an extraordinary rendering of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto in which Seattle Symphony first violinist Cordula Merks led 10 players, three each of violins, violas and cellos, plus double bass, and harpsichord. Seattle Symphony goes for Baroque in 'Like Father, Like Son' program 2012-03-10T20:40:13Z

Mr. Potter is a hyper-articulate tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist, subject to all the attendant triumphs and pitfalls. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Childhood lessons on guitar and bass had revealed he had no particular musical aptitude, but he resolved to be closer to the source of rock ’n’ roll. One Man’s Mission to Keep Musicians’ Legacies Alive 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

They weren’t all percussive, exactly, but together they became a kind of nondefined rhythm to which Mr. Morgan’s bass gave form, like stars outlined in a constellation. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

Over tooth-loosening bass and an oppressive steel drum, our narrator relates the lurid tale of her erratic husband, whom she discovers has been barking in their basement. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's a fine template for future releases, with its propulsive bass and shimmering synths, but it runs out of steam, ideas-wise, after the second chorus. New band of the day - Atlas Genius (No 1,423) 2013-01-03T16:03:48Z

"Morning Sun" delivers frenetic patterns of vocal samples that jump across the frequency range, offering both bass tones, mid-range melodies and high-end treble washes. Holly Herndon on an exploratory 'Platform'; Shamir ratchets up the beat 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Tributes have been left on Karn's website, with one fan saluting his dexterity with the bass. Ex-Japan bassist Mick Karn dies 2011-01-05T14:08:55Z

In Portlandia the fictional mayor is grilled by a hostile press when he is "outed" as secretly playing bass guitar in a reggae band. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z

In the depths of the first movement, immediately before Tchaikovsky’s most consuming cry of desolation, the bassoons, basses and timpani hold a low F sharp, for just a beat and a half. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

"Building It Still" wobbles with bass and a bottle-clang beat while male and female vocals hum and yowl within a staticky mist. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Sardine can. It was hilarious — we’d try to fit all my brother’s drums and my bass amp in this two-seater.” He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

During one section the sopranos soared over a rumbling bass pedal point; in another, high dissonant harmonies proved striking. Arvo Pärt’s ‘Kanon Pokajanen,’ at the Met 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stein, a dauntlessly experimental bass clarinetist, has been playing in the trio Locksmith Isidore for over a decade. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

That album introduces a new working lineup for the band, with Will Kennedy on drums and Dane Alderson on electric bass. Jazz Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The thrill comes from outsmarting the bass and finally experiencing that adrenaline-pumping moment when the striper hits your lure — “It’s like an explosion!” Bass Fishing Time at Montauk Lighthouse 2011-10-13T12:01:27Z

But Mr. Bergman, who plays electric bass and also mixed and helped produce the album, isn’t an interloper here. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z

But I wondered whether there was not room for a similarly calculated freedom in situations where an instrumental soloist plays against a bass line. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

It was Morgan who started, finally, to set a firm pulse, though he built it in response to Blade’s scattered strokes on the snare and bass drums, which implied a flow. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

And playing in Snoop's band, there was a time when my bass was more annoying to everyone than helpful. Thundercat finds a place for his bass 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z

His left hand thrummed guitarlike chords, chased bass lines into the mud, leaped through harmonies like a stride pianist’s would. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“Gone is the warm richness of the German bass counterpoint,” Mr. Elder said. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

There was certainly plenty to like that evening, including Wei Wu, a bass in the Domingo-Cafritz program whose singing I’m starting to look forward to, as well as Patrick O’Halloran as the Lamplighter. Washington National Opera’s tuneful ‘Little Prince’ pleases kids — or does it? 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

You’ve got a lot of space in the drums, which allows for vocals and crazy bass noises.” Music: Korn and Dubstep, Not-So-Unlikely Marriage 2011-12-09T22:18:15Z

“I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.” Kathleen Hanna Returns With the Julie Ruin 2013-09-01T22:26:51Z

On this short, vivid release, he is credited with compositions and sound design, with no mention of the bass per se, even though he still supplies plenty of low-pitched sonorities here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

A melancholy meandering line by the bass clarinet and English horn should be played “Gregorian chant style.” Mahler's Second Symphony, the Tilson Thomas Way 2010-07-09T16:31:00Z

He created effective turns for small characters, and the Met’s solid supporting cast includes the robust bass Robert Pomakov as Mathieu, a sans-culotte. Music Review: An ‘Andrea Chénier’ Short on Star Power 2014-03-25T09:46:00Z

He alternates between two great rhythm sections, the more seasoned of which has his mentor Christian McBride on bass, Benny Green on piano and Lewis Nash on drums. Playlist: Hard-Swinging Sounds, With the Help of Friends 2013-08-16T19:26:20Z

That was followed by Joseph Kudirka's "Charm," long tones played for a long time on two bass flutes at low volume. Dog Star Orchestra joyfully ventures out of bounds 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The bass line spilled from the Howard Theatre entrance, and the overheads bathed the excesses of hip-hop in high-wattage light. Lonnae O’Neal: The pope and ‘Empire’ bookend a Washington day 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Notice the transition between solos, especially from Lee Morgan’s swashbuckling trumpet to Paul Chambers’s bowed bass. How Rudy Van Gelder Shaped the Sound of Jazz as We Know It 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

A quick tap and a roll on the snare, and the rollercoaster ride begins – with raga 12 strings and rumbling bass hurtling against the drumbeat. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z

There is no shortage of great kora players in west Africa, but Diabaté has redefined the parameters of the instrument, playing bass, melody and improvisations simultaneously. Toumani Diabat?: Mali's modest maestro 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

Then there’s “11386,” a shimmying melody that begins with a wide-flung first section — pulpy chords resounding from Garrison’s bass — then a passage of beaming swing. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z