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...Press (MCA), he spent 15 months alone in his California basement trying to match the unmatchable edges on thousands of vocal, drum and instrumental samples, and then turn them into something beautiful. "Whenever I hit a wall," says Davis, "part of me always wishes I knew somebody who played bass, so that I could just call them up and have them come in and bail me out with a new riff to bridge things together. But that's not the discipline. When you hit a wall, the only thing you can rely on is your instrument, which in my case...
...Rick Bass is the author of The Hermit's Story, a collection of short stories to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin
...also serves as a director of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing how much they depended not only on heroism but also on the kindness of strangers--especially in the dozens of tribes they encountered. Author Rick Bass, who lives in a corner of Montana where during the time of Lewis and Clark grizzly bears roamed by the thousands, writes about their last stand in the face of relentless development...
DIED. JOHN ENTWISTLE, 57, bass player for British Invasion rock group the Who; of an apparent heart attack; in a hotel room in Las Vegas. Called by many the most influential bassist in rock's history, he held the band's rhythm together with a less bombastic and more disciplined style than Keith Moon's drumming or Pete Townshend's guitar. His songs for the group included My Wife and Boris the Spider...
...DIED. RAY BROWN, 75, jazz virtuoso known for his strong, imaginative bass lines; in New York City. An originator of bebop, a 1940s jazz style characterized by quick tempos and intricate harmonies, Brown also performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. He was briefly married to Ella Fitzgerald in the late 1940s and remained her music director after their divorce...