Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Melvin A. "Mel" Otterson, 4-43, Florida Southern College '41, and Miami. He plays the bass viol, and got his training at New Hampshire State Teachers College, where he was assistant band and orchestra conductor. He specializes in arranging and plays the electric guitar and the trumpet--this versatile gent also composes on the side...
Radio listeners who tuned in the Blue Network's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street last Sunday night heard a mammoth left hand beating out the solidest bass in U.S. pianism, a right hand doing fine and jubilant things. The hands were those of the great Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, short-time student of Leopold Godowsky and lifelong admirer of James P. Johnson, the great professor of Jamaica, L.I. Even a tyro in such matters might easily guess what experts have known for years: that Fats Waller is the payoff in the classic American jazz piano style-full...
...Gilhens will modulate a tuba, Dr. LeCorbeilor will filter a bass viol Dr. Tatum will amplify a saxophone, and Mr. Schwetman will blast away on a hot cornet. The faculty is combing the electrons out of its hair and students are invited to witness and heckle at the performance...
...bass-mouthed man in the neat blue suit was bewildered and nervous. Few men had ever taken a new Washington job under more awkward circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...
...grade: The careers of Negro notables such as Contralto Marian Anderson, Bass-Baritone Paul Robeson...