The Vulfpeck virtuoso walks through his Flea-inspired technique, talks dead notes, the importance of “thinking of yourself like a drummer” in this taster of his new Bass 301 lecture series When you ...

Steely Dan didn’t want slapping on “Peg.” In 1976 and ‘77, when the jazz-rock group was making Aja, its classic sixth album, disco’s dominance of the pop charts was at its peak, and slap bass was ...

There is a lot of love for Vulfpeck's Joe Dart around these parts. Few contemporary players can pick up the bass guitar and access that sense of funk and groove so readily. He is a natural. So who ...