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In a year filled with choices to make and issues to debate, there’s one thing on which we can all agree: Bass stuff is cool. But what’s the coolest? Starting in December we sought the advice of our favorite special interest group: ...

The Big Bass Story of a True American Idol

It’s official. We can all set our sights on locating James Jamerson’s long-lost ’62 P-Bass “Funk Machine,” because the most famous missing bass guitar of all has been found. Jaco Pastorius’s fretless 1962 Fender Jazz “Bass of Doom” ...

Although the bolero is originally a triple-meter dance that originated in 18th-century Spain, its modern form took hold in Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico as a duple-meter song form in the late 19th century. In the Cuban and Mexican ...