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Word: basses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sting. Several years ago he said that he hated to play the guitar and that he was much more of a jazz bass player. But he has done "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle" on the acoustic guitar for years ever since the Secret Policeman's Other Ball recordings appeared...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Bees In The Garden | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

...selection of the Inventions (originally written for a keyboard instrument) leap and dance crisply, while the chorale Christ lag in Todesbanden shimmers and glows. "With the xylophone, you hear more brittleness," explains Stevens. "With the marimba you hear the air column, a mellow, captivating sound that is rich in bass, like an organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Marimba Man Leigh Stevens' lonely calling | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...accordionist, a geek with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...winners selected had included Scott A. Bass, director of the university's Gerontology Institute, Stephen Coelen, director of the Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, James E. Dalen, chairman of the Department of Medicine, Robert G. Light, associate director of the Massacusetts Cooperative Extension Service, and Joseph S. Slavet, director of the Boston Urban Observatory. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...roots of Men of Clay extend back almost a decade, when brothers Thomas M. Hammond '90 (guitar and vocals) and Benjamin M. Hammond '89 (bass) used that name for their band in junior high school. Taking their name from a friend's home movie, Men of Clay was originally a heavy metal band...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Cut To The Quick | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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