Seven years ago, rock bassist Steve Carter decided enough was enough. Years of blasting out high-amperage guitar rock to uninterested club crowds had worn his enthusiasm thin. Even on good nights, it ...

After the standing ovation for Bela Fleck’s and Edgar Meyer’s performance of Paganini’s “Moto Perpetuo” Sunday evening at College of DuPage’s McAninch Arts Center, a woman in the front row called out ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Ludwig van Beethoven sat down in 1803 to write his “Triple Concerto,” he did it the old-fashioned way, working alone and featuring three traditional ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Job classifications in rock ‘n’ roll can be so limiting. Frontman. Guitarist. Bassman. Drummer. Maybe a keys player or a percussionist. And while it’s great ...

Tonight – May 21 – Mike Gordon will host a special demo of his banjo-bass, designed by beloved Phish guitarmaker Paul Languedoc. “Have you ever seen a banjo-bass ? Didn’t think so,” the bassist wrote ...

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.