Lake Anna Jazz Raffle

The Fender Electric Instrument Company introduced the Jazz Bass in 1960. With a thinner neck and greater tonal flexibility than the Fender Precision Bass, it was designed to appeal to jazz bassists. In addition, it caught the attention of rock, funk, and fusion bass wizards such as Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Sly and the Family Stone’s Larry Graham, and Weather Report’s Jaco Pastorius, who famously removed the frets from his axe, and in the process created a new instrument category: the fretless Jazz Bass. As different as their music was, these musicians (and countless others) were drawn to the Jazz Bass for its fast, slender neck and the expanded tonal spectrum offered by its two single-coil pickups, which can be blended to taste using the individual volume controls.

• Four-string electric bass guitar
• Comfortably contoured poplar body with gloss finish
• Bolt-on maple neck with Modern C profile and satin finish
• Maple or Indian laurel fingerboard (depending on body color)
• Two Fender Standard ceramic single-coil J Bass pickups
• Per-pickup Volume controls, master Tone
• Standard top-load bridge with satin-chrome, steel-barrel saddles