• a bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront?

Facts on topics related to Bassline

Bass guitar

• music business executive Wayne Bickerton played early in his career as bassist with former Beatle Pete Best, and later co-wrote and produced several hits for The Rubettes?

Jazz

• African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
• Czech jazz double-bassist Luděk Hulan co-founded Studio 5, one of the most important modern jazz ensembles in Czechoslovakia?
• Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
• Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
• English jazz musician Eddie Freeman's custom four-string guitar was adopted for manufacture by Selmer?
• hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks, who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach, was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
• jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
• jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
• jazz trombonist Kai Winding's song "Time Is on My Side" became a U.S. top ten hit for The Rolling Stones in 1964, and has been covered by Michael Bolton, Wilson Pickett, Paul Revere & the Raiders and Vanessa Carlton, among others as recently as 2005?
• jazz pianist and vocalist Dena DeRose only considered singing professionally after carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis forced her to give up playing the piano?

Music

• "James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
• visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille?
• Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type?
• soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
• Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and "Oriental" influences?
• Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet?
• parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900?
• a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
• distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?
  
• the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century, which spans 26 parts?

Blues

• 1950s blues musician Little Sammy Davis left the music scene for decades before being rediscovered in 1990?
• Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance, flamenco, blues and rock?
• blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?
• blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
• blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
• Arthur Adams, the singer of "You've Got the Floor", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?
• blues-harp, rather than a type of harp, is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?
• Matthew T. Dickerson is a computational geometer, scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, novelist, blues musician, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper?
• Sugar Blue, the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist, took his stage name from Sidney Bechet's track, "Sugar Blues"?
• Will Dockery, by building Dockery Plantation (pictured), home of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, was fundamental to the development of the blues?

Double bass

• Benjamin Britten helped to replace the Grancino double bass of Adrian Beers MBE, after it was destroyed in the Snape Maltings concert hall fire?
• virtuoso double bassist and composer Frantisek Kotzwara asked a prostitute to cut off his testicles and died from erotic asphyxiation?
• Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements?

Funk

• the Olympic Runners were widely assumed to be an American funk band until their identities were revealed to be British session musicians including Mike Vernon and Pete Wingfield?
• the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?