Word: bassist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bach & Brubeclc. The group's acknowledged skill only emphasizes its relative youth: First Violinist Evgeny Smirnov is 26, while Cellist Yuly Turovsky, the youngest member, has not yet turned 25. Indeed, to look at them, Barshai's wonders could pass for young American jazzniks-especially Bassist Feodor Plyat, 26, who wears horn-rims, and Oboist Evgeny Nepalo, 27, whose lank 6 ft. 4 in. is topped by a brown crewcut. Though it prefers Bach, the group does, in fact, dig jazz. Its preference: the clean-lined cool of Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck...
...Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Charlie Mingus; Impulse). Bassist Mingus working beyond the reach of censure on his own Dadaist compositions...
...blown his horns all over Europe and the U.S.; he is a dauntless explorer of the frontiers of sound, a man who simply wants to play as much music as any one man can. A devotee of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, the twelve-tone pioneer Arnold Schoenberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus, Kirk plays modern jazz but rejects the label. "People classify modern as being cool and not wanting to sweat," he says...
Equally interesting musically was the trio of pianist Pete Loeb. Loeb, who operates on the frontiers of, jazz, sounds a little like Thelonius Monk but is really his own man. He attacks a tune from all sides, alternating carefully spaced dissonances with tantalizing, full-handed chords. His bassist, John Voigt, provided a beautiful, sustained solo on Misty...
Oscar Pettiford: Last Recordings (Jazz-land). Mementos of Bassist Pettiford's inventive mind and agile technique, cut shortly before his death...