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Bass World — Volumes 40-49 (2017-2026)
About Bass World
Bass World is an eclectic, not-for-profit magazine published for the enjoyment and education of the ISB's membership. It serves as a vital link among the members of the international bass-playing community. Regular features include: columns for soloists, orchestra members, jazz bassists, and electric bass; advice from experts about instrument maintenance; profiles of early and 20th century music specialists; discussions of health issues for bassists; tips for teachers of young bassists; a page just for kids; reviews of new recordings and music; and interviews with leading bassists from around the world.
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- Back issues of Bass World magazine, portrait calendars, and convention programs are available for members in searchable PDF format in the George Vance Online Library.
The links below will open recent issues of Bass World into a flipbook style reading experience. If you are not logged in as an ISB member, you will be prompted to login first. After clicking on the link, read the issue by using the navigation bar at the bottom of the landing page to go forward or back.
Search through past issues of Bass World as digital flipbooks, organized ten years at a time:
Volumes 31-39 (2007-2017) Volumes 40-49 (2017-2026)
Volume 49
Volume 48
Number 1
(October 2025)
- President’s Corner
- A Look Back at the 2025 Convention
- Scenes from 2025 Build a Bass Project
- Scenes from 2025 Young Bassists/Next Gen Program
- Results of 2025 Maker’s Competition
- 2025 Convention Coverage
- Winners of 2025 ISB Double Bass Competition
- Heard at Convention
- Milestones
- A Week with the Houston Symphony
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- Bass Ventures
- Teaching Tips
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(February 2026)
- President’s Corner
- How to Create a Studio Budget
- Different Strokes: Peter Grimes
- Body & Bass: Proprioception
- Luthier’s Corner: Stuff Happens
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- Rumblings: Pleyel’s Violone Concerto
- BassVentures: Youth Rock Band Coach Toni DePass
- Teaching Tips: What Can We Learn from One Song?
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2026)
- President’s Corner
- From the Editor
- Feature: A Conversation with Chris Johnson/Strauss Hauss
- Feature: Scott LaFaro’s Bass
- Body & Bass: Teach Your Children Well
- Luthier’s Corner: Recent CITES Decisions
- All That Jazz: Finding Different Melodies
- Milestones
- Erratum: Pleyel’s Violone Concerto
- Teaching Tips: Building Bridges to Intermediate Playing
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Volume 47
Number 1
(October 2024)
- President’s Corner
- History of the ISB
- Milestones
- Leon Bosch Receives 2024 Cobbett Medal
- Bass Teaching Philosophies Par 2: Craig Nelson
- The First Double Bass Concertos
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- Different Strokes
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(February 2025)
- President’s Corner
- David Perlman Part 1
- Convention Preview
- Milestones
- Different Strokes
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Rumblings
- Eugene Levinson Bass Day
- Bass Ventures
- Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2025)
- President’s Corner
- David Perlman Part 2
- Milestones
- Transcribing for the Stars
- Beyond Technique
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Rumblings
- Teaching Tips
- Sounding Board
Volume 46
Number 1
(October 2023)
- President’s Corner
- Convention Welcome Letters
- Feature: 2023 ISB Bass Convention
- Feature: BPBC Turns 3 at ISB
- Feature: Rediscovering a Lost Sound World, a Presentation on Three Violones
- Feature: Michigan Night: Celebrating James Jamerson
- 2023 Samuel Kolstein Memorial Award Recipient Madalena Kozol
- Build a Bass 2023
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- Bass Ventures
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(February 2024)
- President’s Corner
- Happy Birthday to the Evolving Bassist, Rufus Reid!
- How I Met Puccini Series – Revealing the Sonic Odyssey, New Pathways for the Double Bass
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- Bass Ventures
- Different Strokes
- The Latest Score
Number 3
(June 2024)
- President’s Corner
- Bass Teaching Philosophies Part 1: Joseph Conyers
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- Bass Ventures
- Sounding Board
Volume 45
Number 1
(October 2022)
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Tonight: A preview of Barre Phillips’s forthcoming memoir
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- BassVentures
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(February 2023)
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Feature: It’s About Time - The ISB Welcomes Time for Three
- Feature: Building the ISB’s International Infrastructure
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- BassVentures
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
- Book Review
Number 3
(June 2023)
- President’s Corner
- Letter to the Editor
- Feature: Making the Low Notes
- Feature: Despite Everything, Basses in Haiti
- Feature: Murray Grodner – The Myth, The Legend, The Man
- Feature: Pernambuco Update – Time to Take Action
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- Milestones
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- The Latest Score
- Book Review
Volume 44
Number 1
(October 2021)
- 2021 Virtual Bass Convention
- 2021 Build a Bass Program Goes Virtual
- Diversity Panel
- PAGE Panel
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- BassVentures
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
- Books
Number 2
(February 2022)
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- From the Editor
- Divinity Roxx Brings Positive Vibes to Children’s Music
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- BassVentures
- Different Strokes
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2022)
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Bassists, We Have a Problem! Endangered Pernambuco
- Varieties of Transcriptions
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- All That Jazz
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- Rumblings
- BassVentures
- Different Strokes
- The Latest Score
- Young Bassists’s Page
- Sounding Board
- Book Review
Volume 43
Number 1
(October 2020)
- Invitation to Changes: An Interview with Ron Carter
- The Bass Solo That Brought Down the House: An Interview with Scott Pingel
- President's Corner
- From the Editor
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier's Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Bass Ventures
- My Turn
- Product Review
- Sounding Board
- Milestones
Number 2
(February 2021)
- Dwight Shambley: A Tribute
- Stress-Free Practicing for Lifelong Results
- How Hybrid Lessons have Transformed My Teaching Forever
- How to Organize a Bass Camp During the COVID-19 Crisis
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- BassVentures
- Different Strokes
- In the Zone
- My Turn
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2021)
- The Development of Modern Bass
- Recognizing Our Ghosts
- President’s Corner
- Milestones
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- BassVentures
- In the Zone
- Teaching Tips
- All Things Electric
- Product Review
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Volume 42
Number 1
(October 2019)
- 2019 ISB Convention
- PAGE Panel
- Build a Bass 2019
- Young Bassists Program
- 2019 Convention Presentation Reports
- President's Corner
- From the Editor
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier's Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Digital Discoveries
Number 2
(February 2020)
- Remembering Jazz Bassist Don Bagley
- Measuring, A Tool for Success in All Things
- A Sold Out Final for the 2019 Bottesini Competition
- President’s Corner
- From the Editor
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- In the Zone
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Bass Ventures
- All Things Electric
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2020)
- Going Back to Domaine
- Newbie’s Guide to Teaching Online Music Lessons
- First Visit to China
- President's Corner
- From the Editor
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- In the Zone
- Luthier's Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Bass Ventures
- All Things Electric
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
- Milestones
Volume 41
Number 1
(October 2018)
- Reflections on a Week with the Atlanta Symphony
- Antonio Scontrino, an Instrumentalist in the Golden Age of Opera
- Rules for Walking: Teaching Jazz Bass Students to Improvise Walking Bass Lines
- Callus Development and Maintenance
- President’s Corner
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- In the Zone
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- The Latest Score
- Digital Discoveries
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(February 2019)
- Milton Hinton: More Than a Foundation
- Equipment and Setup for Jazz Bassists
- George Vance: In His Own Words
- President’s Corner
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- In the Zone
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(June 2019)
- Pit Playing Advice
- New Insights into the Koussevitzky Concerto
- Mozart Requiem for a Double Bassist, Part 3
- President's Corner
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- In the Zone
- Luthier's Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
- Milestones
Volume 40
Number 1
(June 2017)
Click here (Members Only) to read Mozart Requiem for a Double Bassist Part 1 by Klaus Trumpf in German. ISB members can read this article (Members Only) in its final English translation by Vincent Osborn, see Bass World Volume 40 #1.
- 50th Anniversary ISB Convention
- Scott LaFaro Archives
- We Built a Bass in a Week
- One Day in the ISB Bow Class
- Different Strokes Convention Seminar
- Morning Workouts at the 2017 Convention
- Young Bassist Program at the 2017 ISB Convention
- Sal Cuevas: Tribute to One of Salsa’s Most Influential Bassists
- Mozart Requiem for a Double Bassists
- Five Life Stages: Paths to Saving for Retirement
- President’s Corner
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- Luthier’s Corner
- Rumblings
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 2
(October 2017)
- Bob Cranshaw, The Story Behind the Picture
- Alone Together, An Unaccompanied Jazz Bass Solo Workshop
- A Trip into a Mysterious World
- President’s Corner
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- In the Zone
- Luthier’s Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- The Latest Score
- Sounding Board
Number 3
(February 2018)
Click here (Members Only) to read the full transcript of Victor Wooten's interview with Mike Forfia, published in Bass World Volume 40 #3. You can also listen to the interview here (Members Only).
Click here (Members Only) to read Mozart Requiem for a Double Bassist Part 2 by Klaus Trumpf in German. ISB members can read this article (Members Only) in its final English translation by Vincent Osborn, see Bass World Volume 40 #3.
- A New Technique for Exploring the Double Bass
- Role Model: An Interview with Victor Wooten
- The Mozart Requiem for a Viennese-Tuned Double Bassist (Part 2)
- President’s Corner
- Different Strokes
- Teaching Tips
- Body & Bass
- In the Zone
- Luthier’s Corner
- Rumblings
- All That Jazz
- Milestones
- Sounding Board
Search through past issues of Bass World as digital flipbooks, organized ten years at a time: