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Bass is Beautiful

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It used to be in popular music that you’d feel the bass line more than hear it. Today’s bass players have to balance their crucial supporting role with increasing duties as a soloist. Bill Leigh of Bass Player magazine and Victor Wooten, a virtuoso of the bass guitar, talk about what its like for a […]

Meshell NdegeOcello

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Meshell Ndegeocello

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Me’Shell Ndegeocello

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US Navy Trombonist Composes Score for Viral Animated Movie ‘Maker vs Marker’

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Aha Moment: La Forza del Destino

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Call had dyslexia, and although he had a great ear for music and a knack for instruments, he picked up the trombonium, trombone, bassoon, bass clarinet, he assumed his disability would make a career in music impossible.

Striped Bass: A Cautionary Fish Tale

Environmental journalist Dick Russell talks about the future of the once endangered striped bass.

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