Jazz without bass is like The Princess Bride without Fezzik. GWB without Dick Cheney. The 1978 Yankees without Thurman Munson. I have an admission to make. I have a pretty manic/obsessive personality.

You may not know Carol Kaye's name, but you know her work. You've probably heard at least a few dozen examples, and all the words, too. She spent the '60s as the most requested session bassist in L.A.

Karina Rykman identifies as “genre-fluid.” The bassist/singer is almost frighteningly conversant on the guitar sparring of Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes, 311, Captain Beefheart and metal. After ...

Michael Jackson was a big fan of Swedish pop group Ace Of Base, according to bandmember Ulf Ekberg. The star claimed that Jackson confessed his love for the 'All That She Wants' hitmakers when they ...

Through the course of a four-decade career, Jeff Berlin has refused to end his musical quest. He crafted a popping, percussive style so thoroughly ingrained in the recordings of the 1980s, it's nearly ...

EXCLUSIVE: Viaplay is to document the troubled story of pop group Ace of Base, one of Sweden’s most successful pop bands of all time. All That She Wants: The Unbelievable Story of Ace of Base will air ...

True story: here at the West Coast Sound Headquarters we have a whiteboard where we write down story ideas and one of the items for a while has been “Sweden: WHY?” We're truly puzzled about all these ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The American jazz double bass player Christian McBride is fond of saying that his life was destroyed once he’d heard ...

The three Johns - Rotten, Vicious and Wobble - were pals from Kingsway College of Further Education - so it seemed natural that Wobble should be asked to join Public Image Limited, the group Lydon ...

Masta Ace may be hip hop’s greatest ‘what if’ story. Despite being widely recognised as one of the most creative and versatile MCs, his career has been repeatedly derailed by label politics, fickle ...