Introduced in 1960, the Jazz Bass represented a considerable advance on Fender’s previous Precision model.

Most immediately noticeable was it’s reshaped, “off-set” body; there were also two pickups, built-in mutes for each string, and a narrower neck that permitted nimbler fingerwork.

Early Jazz Basses featured two “stacked” knobs (one for each pickup), which combined volume and tone controls on a single shaft. The mutes were dropped some three years later.

A revamped model (which is the one shown here) was introduced in 1989 and it had 22 frets (two more than on the original version).