as it’s played horizontally rather than upright and has frets - though some fretless bass guitars do exist. The standard four-string fretted bass may be the most common instrument, but myriad ...

Epiphone has once again teamed up with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna bass guitar hero Jack Casady for a new signature guitar, which takes his favored semi-hollowbody design into fretless territory.

Although much of his fame stems from his time with Weather Report, Jaco’s recordings with Joni Mitchell yielded some of the ...