Seven years ago, rock bassist Steve Carter decided enough was enough. Years of blasting out high-amperage guitar rock to uninterested club crowds had worn his enthusiasm thin. Even on good nights, it ...

Mike Thurber knew he wanted to play the double bass from the first time he laid eyes on it. "It was 'Pick your Instrument Day' in sixth grade," he recalls. "I looked across the room and saw a big, ...

After the standing ovation for Bela Fleck’s and Edgar Meyer’s performance of Paganini’s “Moto Perpetuo” Sunday evening at College of DuPage’s McAninch Arts Center, a woman in the front row called out ...

Tonight – May 21 – Mike Gordon will host a special demo of his banjo-bass, designed by beloved Phish guitarmaker Paul Languedoc. “Have you ever seen a banjo-bass ? Didn’t think so,” the bassist wrote ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven sat down in 1803 to write his “Triple Concerto,” he did it the old-fashioned way, working alone and featuring three traditional classical instruments in the solo roles: ...

Job classifications in rock ‘n’ roll can be so limiting. Frontman. Guitarist. Bassman. Drummer. Maybe a keys player or a percussionist. And while it’s great that cellos and accordions and such are ...