We can’t confirm that one, but the supporting evidence is getting pretty strong here. Let’s go back to October 2010: "In the third quarter, we had looks, but we couldn't hit a bull’s ass with a bass ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

When Gene LaBrie was 15 years old in Stamford, Conn., a traveling evangelist began teaching him to play the bass fiddle. He started by playing country and bluegrass music. He worked diligently at ...

From his rambunctious, early be-bop days with Dizzy Gillespie to his current, elder statesman period, Brown has been an inspiration to jazz improvisers in general and aspiring bassists in particular.

Music has been a large part of Bruce Dundas' life, and now he is able to share his experience with a larger audience. The former Midlander published his first book, "Learn Bass Fiddle" earlier this ...

A piece of Central Missouri musical history is now on display at the Missouri State Museum in the State Capitol. Lee Mace's famous bass fiddle now resides at the Missouri State Museum. For more than ...

Bass" is often misspelled as base" but the meaning is very similar in music, that of foundation." In early jazz bands, bassists played the bass fiddle, the tuba, or the bass saxophone. The typical ...

At age 19, Isaac Rohrbach might be deemed a throwback to the days of old, and not just because he plays an oblong, octagonal upright bass that he made himself to perform in a bluegrass-gospel-country ...

HEARD the one about the double bass player from the Metropolitan Opera who takes a night off to attend a performance of “Carmen”? Afterward, he rushes backstage to see his colleagues from the bass ...

The coach was very blunt with reporters after the game, saying the team "couldn’t hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle" in regard to its poor shooting performance. The Mavericks scored all of 10 ...