By the time the bass guitar came along in 1951, upright bass players had been slapping and pulling on their strings for several decades. Milt Hinton was one such player who pioneered a percussive ...

Bootsy Collins isn’t an easy character to make star struck. There’s probably only a handful of people on the planet who would make him feel in awe, but the first time he met Larry Graham will live ...

Larry Graham wasn’t looking to change the popular music world when he stumbled across a unique way of playing the bass guitar. He was simply trying to fill a musical void created when an instrument he ...

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The crowd was getting restless. After all, 45 minutes had passed since Mint Condition had finished its excellent opening set at the Minnesota Zoo on Friday. Where was Larry Graham? He was getting ...

Anyone who has picked up an electric bass and attempted to get funky over the past 40 years or so owes a debt to Larry Graham. One of the most soulful musicians in American music, Graham also is ...

Bass legend Larry Graham, who has called Chanhassen home for the past 12 years, will sit in with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra on "the Late Show with David Letterman" on Tuesday night. Speaking ...

Larry Graham kicked his career into gear by adapting. Because jazz wouldn’t be what it is without adaptation and improvisation, the legendary funk bassist and his band Graham Central Station will fit ...

Bootsy Collins has released a new video for “Want Me 2 Stay” — his take on Sly and the Family Stone’s 1973 hit “If You Want Me to Stay” — featuring original Family Stone bassist, Larry Graham, as well ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have had a more significant influence on both funk and soul music than Larry Graham. As the pioneering bassist of Sly and the Family Stone and the dynamic frontman of ...