Slap bass has come a long way since Larry Graham first championed the style in the 1970s. Graham has said that he was simply trying to create a drum-like sound to flesh out the rhythm in the then ...

The off-kilter riff that opens the track shouldn't work but it really does. Then Tim Commerford digs into the verse groove replete with cheeky runs up the fretboard. Slap bass was never a huge part of ...

My Bass, Musa Manzini's third solo outing, is an album by a bassist, for bassists. Manzini is not afraid to wear his influences on his sleeve—the solo bass overdubbing and slapping of Victor Wooten, ...