From Kumalo's perspective, fretless bass is all about tone first. “The first step, before you play a lot of fancy licks, is to get the right sound one note and one string at a time.

After a while it became a big part of my playing, so I had the double-neck six, fretted, and seven string fretless guitar made, which has now become my main instrument. I was commissioned to write a ...

The idea to take up the cello at 75 was born in that stillness. It seemed like it could be a timely distraction, a way to adjust to Slow, a way of connecting the dots of a lifetime of casual ...