Mickey Bass
Mickey Bass (actually Lee odiss Bass III, born May 2, 1943 in Pittsburgh) is an American jazz musician ( bass, besides also piano, brass instruments, flute), composer, arranger and music teacher.
Life and work
Mickey Bass had singing lessons with his maternal grandmother, who had appeared in minstrel shows. He worked from the 1960s in the hard bop scene, including Lee Morgan ( The Sixth Sense, 1969), Bobby Timmons ( Soul Food), Hank Mobley ( Thinking of Home, 1970), Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey (! Child's Dance, 1972) but then also at Bennie Green, Charles Mingus, Jimmy McGriff ( Friday The 13th Cook County Jail, 1973), Chico Freeman, John Hicks, Philly Joe Jones, Eddie Gladden and Kiane Zawadi! ; He also came from the early 1970s in the New York area with its own formations, 1975 at Sweet Basil in duo with Ray Bryant. In 1994 he had. Involvement in at Birdland with his band The Manhattan Bum Unit, in the play, inter alia, Steve Nelson and Marc Johnson He taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC and at the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford. In 1980 he received a grant from the National Composition Endowment for the Arts. Under his own name he produced three albums for the label Chiaroscuro and Early Bird.