R&B singer Fontella Bass has died at a hospice in St. Louis ... the renowned jazz trumpet player Lester Bowie. After the success of "Rescue Me," the couple moved to Paris where she performed ...

He wrote on his Facebook page, “Today I lost my best friend, the world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live ... what was then known as R&B (for rhythm and blues), music ...

“The bass is the foundation,” session legend Carol ... the very foundation of popular music — from rock to funk to country to R&B to disco to hip-hop, and beyond — during the past half ...

He’s a great player. “But here’s a question ... The tone is sort of lower, and a muffled kind of R&B bass playing. I can’t really recall in my mind anything John Paul Jones played.

Veasley went on to play bass in his neighborhood and far beyond. In his four-decades-long career, he has collaborated with some of the world's best jazz, R&B, and gospel musicians. "Playing bass ...