Word: basses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soloists had an easy time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...
Mulligan's kind of sound is just about unique in the jazz field: his quartet uses neither piano nor guitar, does its work with trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell...
Jimmy Wood, the house bass man and Jo Jones at the traps are both fine rhythm men who got a bit on their own when the spirit moves them. These three provide a strong beat for the smooth trumpet work of Ruby Braff...
...Mozart Bass Arias (Fernando Corena; London). Mozart's writing for basso has never been touched for purity of line and directness of expression, and these six songs (from Figaro, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute) are among his best. Young Basso Corena has a brilliant, resonant tone, gives the music spirited, if not highly polished, interpretations...
...summer weekends, the professor loads his family into a Trinidad red suburban and heads for Buzzard's Bay on Cape Cod. While keeping an eye out for lane-roving Massachusetts drivers, he sings a rumbling bass in quartet harmony with his wife and two older children...