Word: bassists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also played first base well enough to be approached by minor-league baseball teams. At 18, he opted instead to tour the vaudeville circuit, played jazz piano in small West Coast barrooms for $5 a night, later added a bassist and guitarist to form his own trio...
Lowell Davidson, a junior, contributed a provocative session of his own trio. In his first three compositions, he experimented broadly with time and abandoned the "rhythm section" concept to let bassist Kent Cavler and drummer Bill Elgart improvise as freely as he himself did on piano. The consistent mood of the three pieces was desolation; and the freedom of Davidson's sidemen to go their own ways accentuated the loneliness and solemnity of the music...
CHARLIE MINGUS: TONIGHT AT NOON (Atlantic) is the sort of stuff that Ellington should be doing: original jazz works of concert length and worth. Bassist-Pianist Mingus' debt to Ellington is most apparent in Invisible Lady where both mood and the stylish trombone solo of Jimmie Knepper are evocative of the Duke at his best. Peggy's Blue Skylight features Mingus on piano and a haunting tenor sax solo by Booker Ervin...
...Holiness Church in Los Angeles, permitted only church music in the home, so Mingus was eight before he even knew jazz existed. One night he secretly turned on his father's radio and heard Ellington. He took to playing first the trombone, then the cello, till Veteran Bassist Red Callender got him to start on the bass...
...rebels against this artistic repression sat last week in a U.S. refugee camp in West Germany-Bassist Igor Berechtis, 31, and Saxophonist Boris Midny, 26. As they told it, the pair decided to defect after sitting in on a 1962 after-hours jam session with members of Benny Goodman's touring band...