Virtuoso Bass, Issue 4: “The Founding Four”
We are proud to announce the release of
Virtuoso Bass, Issue 4: “The Founding Four,” a landmark edition devoted to documenting and canonizing the architects of jazz fusion bass. Featuring Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Bunny Brunel, and Jeff Berlin, the issue explores the recordings, instruments, harmonic language, educational influence, and historical lineage that transformed the electric bass into a frontline compositional voice in modern fusion music. Also featured inside are major retrospectives on Miroslav Vitouš and Cindy Blackman Santana, The Art of Tension exploring
Virtuoso Bass Sponsor La Bella Strings and modern bass tone, fusion album retrospectives covering Frank Zappa, Larry Coryell, and Allan Holdsworth, an in-depth interview with Starr Cullars, and The Canon Part 2: The Workbench, examining the luthiers behind the movement’s most influential instruments. Visit
Amazon.com to purchase the print edition.