Word: basse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite mentor in Chicago in 1921, when Jimmie was 27 and Fats a big stripling of 17. No one has ever given a better description of what happened than Jimmie himself gave last week: "I taught him how to groove, how to make it sweet-the strong bass he had dates from that time. He stuck pretty well to my pattern-developed a lovely singing tone, a lyric, melodic expression, and then too, him being the son of a preacher, he had fervor...
...Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
...Francati. O'Neill of the Welfare and Recreation Office was responsible for this initial success, but was aided by the originators of the band, Jimmy Oliver and Merv Lysing. Featured in the band were "Skins" Walthour, producer of cacophony, Paul Liden on the trumpet, and Melvin Otterson on the bass strings...
...Fisherman was not: he rarely appeared before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...
...Catalina flying boat roared in with a new arrival there was a touch of formality. "Mr. Harry Hopkins," said the Old Fisherman, "Meet Mr. Donald MacKenzie." The fishing got even better: "You certainly know the holes for these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...