Frank Tate (musician)

Frank Tate (born July 18, 1943 in Washington, DC ) is an American bassist (also electric bass , guitar ) of mainstream jazz .

Tate grew up in Long Island and initially played the trumpet ; a neighbor was the jazz pianist Art Hodes . He started playing the double bass when he was 23 while living in Greensboro, North Carolina . In 1968 he returned to his hometown, where he led the house band at the Blues Alley jazz club . In 1975 he moved to New York to play in the Marian McPartland Trio, then with Zoot Sims . In the following years he worked as a freelance musician a. a. with Bobby Hackett , Dave McKenna , Benny Goodman , Teddy Wilson , Joe Venuti , Lionel Hampton and Wild Bill Davison . from 1985 to 1990 he toured with Pearl Bailey ; in the 1990s in the Ruby Braff Trio (with Howard Alden ), Herman Foster and Jane Jarvis . In the field of jazz he was involved in 84 recording sessions between 1971 and 2011, apart from the named ones with Tommy Gwaltney , Jimmy McPartland , Dick Meldonian , Ronny Whyte , Spanky Davis , Keith Ingham , Ken Peplowski , Bobby Short , Barbara Carroll , Ed Polcer , Barbara Lea , Flip Phillips , Johnny Varro , Allan Vaché , Butch Miles , Marty Grosz , Rebecca Kilgore , Randy Reinhart and Scott Hamilton . In 1993 he recorded the album Twilight World under his own name (with James Chirillo and Tom Bailey ).

Discographic notes

Live in Belfast ( Nagel-Heyer Records , 1996), with Harry Allen , Dave McKenna, Howard Alden, Butch Miles
Thanks for the Memory: Frank Tate's Musical Tribute to Bobby Short ( Arbors Records , 2010), with Mike Renzi , Joe Ascione

personal data
SURNAME	Tate, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American bassist (also electric bass, guitar) of mainstream jazz
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC