Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Bass, governmental affairs reporter for the Columbia, S.C., State and a Nieman Fellow this year, illustrates the pattern. Bass, 31, was born in Columbia and has spent most of his life in South Carolina. He arrived at Harvard last fall with his wife and three children, two of them schoolage, and ended up settling in Belmont...
Pantherlike, vain and arrogant, Othello first appears sniffing a rose. His skin is dark as charcoal, his bass-toned speech richly thickened in a kind of classic calypso rhythm. Rolling his r's and his hips, he swaggers into an epic drama of a husband's jealousy reinforced as the story of a black man married to a white woman...
...opposition of his father, a Los Angeles real estate and automobile salesman who felt that the only music career open to a Negro was as a lowly jazzman. When he was five, his mother sneaked him off to a piano teacher, later encouraged his lessons on the double bass, an instrument he "got stuck with" in order to fill a gap in his high-school orchestra. He also played on the school football team and his father hoped that he might make a career out of it. But when young Henry won a job in the bass-fiddle section...
E.S.P. (Columbia). Miles Davis and his fine quintet in abstract musings of their own invention (Agitation by Davis, Iris by Tenor Saxman Wayne Shorter, Mood by Bassist Ronald Carter). Sometimes the drum, bass and piano drive the soloists, but mostly they provide only phantom rhythms under the fluid runs and fragmentary phrases of the trumpet and tenor sax. No one will be tempted to tap a foot or sing along, but few with any E.S.P. at all will stop listening...
PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...