Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

A practical Year 8 lesson where students learn to play a walking bass line within the 12-bar blues, developing fluency, coordination, and a stronger sense of pulse. This lesson develops students’ ...

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...