Mickey Bass
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Mickey Bass is an American bassist, composer, arranger, and music educator. He was born Lee Odiss Bass III. He has played with Chico Freeman
, John Hicks
, Kiane Zawadi
among others, and cut sessions for Chiaroscuro
and Early Bird
.
, Bennie Green
, Charles Mingus
and so on. The The New York Times
declared: “When Mickey Bass& “The Co-operation” get in the ‘right groove’…it is doubtful if there is another jazz group in town that swings as hard as this one.” He has taught students at Ellington School of the Arts and Hartt College of Music from 1975 to 1985. During these ten years, he has affected people include Eric Aleen, Gary Bartz
, Marc Cary
and so on. As a director of “The Jazz Ensemble,” he helped this ensemble gradually to an eventual state of maturity and sophistication. In 1980, he was awarded: A National Endowment for the Arts, Composers’ Grant.
With Art Blakey
With Jimmy McGriff
With Reuben Wilson
With Ramon Morris
With Various
With Various
With Lee Morgan
Chico Freeman
Chico Freeman is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman...
, John Hicks
John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
, Kiane Zawadi
Kiane Zawadi
Bernard Atwell McKinney, later Kiane Zawadi is an American jazz trombonist and euphonium player.McKinney was born into a family of ten children, several of which also became musicians. He is the uncle of R&B producer and jazz pianist Carlos "Los Da Mystro" McKinney...
among others, and cut sessions for Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro in art is "an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted"....
and Early Bird
Early Bird
Early Bird may refer to:*A "lark", or "morning person", who usually gets up early in the morning and goes to bed early in the evening*An "early bird sale", also known as a Doorbuster...
.
Biography
Mickey Bass is a Pittsburgh bassist who has worked with hard bop bandleaders and combos since the ‘60s; he has not recorded often as a leader. His maternal grandmother who performed in minstrel shows taught Mickey and his cousins Barbershop Harmony. He has played and recorded with Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
, Bennie Green
Bennie Green
Bennie Green was an American jazz trombonist.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Green worked in the orchestras of Earl Hines and Charlie Ventura, and recorded as bandleader through the 1950s and 1960s.-As leader:...
, Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
and so on. The The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
declared: “When Mickey Bass& “The Co-operation” get in the ‘right groove’…it is doubtful if there is another jazz group in town that swings as hard as this one.” He has taught students at Ellington School of the Arts and Hartt College of Music from 1975 to 1985. During these ten years, he has affected people include Eric Aleen, Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...
, Marc Cary
Marc Cary
Marc Cary is a post bop jazz pianist based out of New York City. Cary has played and recorded with several well-known musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Arthur Taylor, Abbey Lincoln, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello, Stefon Harris, Lauryn Hill, Ani DiFranco, Jackie McLean, and...
and so on. As a director of “The Jazz Ensemble,” he helped this ensemble gradually to an eventual state of maturity and sophistication. In 1980, he was awarded: A National Endowment for the Arts, Composers’ Grant.
As sideman
With Hank MobleyHank Mobley
Henry Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz...
- Think of Home (1970, Blue Note)
With Art Blakey
Art Blakey
Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
- Child’s Dance (1972, Prestige)
- The History of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger (1991, bluenote)
- Buhaina (1973, Prestige)
With Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy McGriff
James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...
- Friday The 13th Cook County Jail (1973, Groove Merchant)
With Reuben Wilson
Reuben Wilson
Reuben Wilson is a jazz organist. He performs soul jazz and acid jazz, and is best known for his title track "Got To Get Your Own"He was born in Mounds, Oklahoma and his family moved to Pasadena when he was 5....
- The Sweet Life (1974, Groove Merchant)
With Ramon Morris
- Friday The 13th Cook County Jail (1973, Prestige)
With Various
Various
Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2003. The group blends samples, acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and singing from a revolving cast of vocalists. Its members, Adam and Ian, purposefully give very little information about the group or...
- The Freedom Jazz Dance Series (1995, PHO Records)
With Various
Various
Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2003. The group blends samples, acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and singing from a revolving cast of vocalists. Its members, Adam and Ian, purposefully give very little information about the group or...
- Vintage James and Serious Grooves (1998, LaserLight Digital)
With Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...
- The Sixth Sense (1999, Lee Morgan)