Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never were these sub-deb tunes played as he plays them. His walking bass is a thing of inexorable sureness; his traditional handling of these untraditional pieces is never dull, almost always completely...
Leroy Anderson doesn't have time to play his trombone--or his tuba, double bass, organ or cello, for that matter--any more. But no one scems to mind. People who have heard "Wintergreen," "Fiddle-Faddle," or "Sleigh-Ride," are quite willing to settle for Anderson as a composer...
...played string bass in the orchestra, becoming president of the Picrian Sodality in his senior year, and trombone in the Band, of which he was made conductor. These extra-curricular activities did not keep Anderson from being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating magna cum laude...
...meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period, in 1932, that Anderson made his Wintergreen arrangement for the Band's Army game show...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...