Having one of the best 5-string basses in your arsenal of instruments might be more useful ... when it comes to finding the best 5-string bass. For an updated twist on a classic, the Fender American ...

The Classic Vibe '60s Jazz Bass has a solid poplar body ... a sound and look that gets you in the same ballpark as those much sought-after vintage instruments even if, like the majority of us, you can ...

For me, it’s a used Fender Jazz Bass of uncertain provenance ... Fender makes extremely solid instruments under its more affordable Squier line. The “Classic Vibe” series contains some ...

The warm, rich tone of the bass ins ... exponents of the instrument including Edgar Meyer are pushing this sound to new heights, equally at home playing Bottesini concerti, jazz and bluegrass ...

“Leo Fender intentionally designed our instruments with modularity ... The Player II Modified Active Jazz Bass® V is a classic bass with the modern player in mind. Everything about the neck ...

And because we’re talking about an instrument like the bass, whose trajectory through jazz has been a complicated ... Recorded a year after the classic “Night at the Village Vanguard ...

It was 1961. John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, Alan Shepard made his first U.S. space flight and Paul McCartney bought his iconically symmetrical bass, the Hofner 500/1. It was cheaper than a ...

In a new post on Instagram, Ament told the tale of his 1961 Fender Jazz Bass, which he had rented from none other than Norman Harris of Norman’s Rare Guitars during the early 1990s while Pearl ...