Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

Anthony Jackson, the legendary bassist who played with Madonna, Simon & Garfunkel & the Bee Gees, has died at 73.

Anthony Jackson, the session legend widely credited with pioneering the six-string bass, has died aged 73. The news has been ...

Jackson played for stars across the jazz-fusion-pop spectrum, including Buddy Rich, Al Di Meola, Madonna, Chaka Khan, Roberta Flack and more ...

Anthony Jackson, a bass player known for his work with icons like Madonna and Roberta Flack, has died aged 73. Tributes for ...

In 1974, seeking to expand the sonic range of the bass, Jackson conceived the idea for a six-string contrabass guitar ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history. Stories include Michael Jordan’s retirement from basketball, the premiere ...

Bass player Ivo Severijns has been reunited with a guitar stolen at a Vrienden van Amstel concert 13 years ago. One of his friends noticed the Fender Precision offered for sale online. Severijns, who ...

Hailed as the second coming of Michael Jordan, Anthony Edwards has made it a point to blaze his own path. Though, the comparisons did lead him down the road of getting in touch with MJ. Unfortunately, ...

Serial Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen has once again spoken about the notoriously absent bass guitar sound on the band's fourth album ...And Justice For All and says he has no idea why it ...