Bass Week: The word ‘funk’ or ‘funky’ can be applied to almost anything, from butt-shaking basslines to scatter cushions. We all instinctively know what’s implied, but in a bass playing sense, what ...

Bootsy Collins (due tonight at the Boulder Theater), a bass player with a larger-than-life persona, first came to prominence in the James Brown band. After leaving Brown’s outfit, Collins was ...

We feature some bona fide bass guitar legends here, but very few come with a pedigree quite like William Collins, or Bootsy as he's known to the entire bass-playing world (and significant chunks of it ...

The man born Stephen Bruner was a member of the California band for almost 10 years before leaving to focus on his solo ...

"It was the mecca. For real," Collins, 73, says of life in the Motor City during the heyday of Motown.

LOS ANGELES — Louis Johnson, founding member of funk band The Brothers Johnson and an in-demand bassist who appeared on Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” died on ...

*For more than 50 years, bass player Rustee Allen has been “all funked up,” playing and recording with some of the most legendary singers and bands in the world of rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and gospel ...