Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today and Now (Coleman Hawkins; Impulse) is the best offering yet from Tenorman Hawkins and his brilliant rhythm section-Tommy Flanagan, piano; Major Holley, bass; Eddie Locke, handling the drums...
Reunion (Benny Golson; Jazzland). A leading saxophonsit in all-star company: Kenny Dorham, trumpet; J. J. Johnson, trombone; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Max Roach, drums...
...million Philharmonic Hall last year, New York Times Music Critic Harold Schonberg confided to his readers that his heart raced ahead of his feet on his way to a concert there. Once inside, though, Schonberg soon found himself switching from seat to seat in hopes of hearing a bass, a cello-but like the classic Childe Harold, Schonberg found no happiness for all his roaming. At last he settled down in his assigned place in Row N, Left Loge, convinced that the best sounds were elsewhere-specifically, in Seat...
Last spring, hope returned. Lincoln Center's directors-tireless boasters before the hall was built-confessed that acoustical scientists had confirmed the findings of Schonberg's ear: the hall lacked bass, was haunted by echoes, needed a more equal diffusion of sound. Workmen arrived in June to raise and tilt the 136 acoustical "clouds" suspended from the ceiling, fill in most of the space between them, and build a reflecting musical shell behind the stage...
...little interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...