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 ...

Banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Myer are two important current figures in American music. They got together in the NPR studios to play some of the banjo and bass music they take out on tour.

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song" ; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Notes include words of the songs, and bibliographical and discographical ...