- jazz
- 5 tracks
- Vee-Jay Records
1st Bassman is an album by jazz bassist Paul Chambers, recorded at Bell Sound Studios on May 12, 1960 and released by the Vee-Jay label. This album is notable for its featured use of the acoustic bass as the lead instrument. Chambers is supported by trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, trombonist Curtis Fuller, tenor saxophonist Yusef Lateef, pianist Wynton Kelly and drummer Lex Humphries.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- A1Melody
- A2Bass Region
- B1Retrogress
- B2Mopp Shoe Blues
- B3Blessed
About the album
- Artist
- Paul Chambers
- Label
- Vee-Jay Records
- Released
- August 13, 1960
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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