Mickey Bass

Mickey Bass (actually Lee Odiss Bass III , born May 2, 1943 in Pittsburgh ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , also piano , brass instruments , flute ), composer , arranger and music teacher .

Live and act

Mickey Bass took singing lessons from his maternal grandmother who had appeared on minstrel shows . He worked in the hard bop scene from the 1960s, a . a. with 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 also with 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 ; In addition, he appeared in the New York area with his own formations from the early 1970s, in 1975 at Sweet Basil in a duo with Ray Bryant . In 1994 he was engaged in Birdland with his band The Manhattan Bum Unit , in which u. a. Steve Nelson and Marc Johnson played. From 1975 to 1985 he taught 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 composition scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts . He released three albums under his own name for the Chiaroscuro and Early Bird labels .

Leonard Feather / Ira Gitler : The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies . Horizon Press, 1976 -

personal data
SURNAME	Bass, Mickey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bass III, Lee Odiss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh