2006 West Texas Jazz Party Featured
Artist
Frank Tate - Bass
Frank joined the Marion McPartland Trio in 1975 while freelancing
with Bobby Hackett, Dave McKenna, Zoot Sims, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson,
Joe Venuti, Lionel Hampton and Wild Bill Davison. From 1985 to1990 he toured
with Pearl Bailey and the Louis Bellson Orchestra and since 1996 has been
with the Bobby Short Trio. Frank has been a sought-after performer on the
jazz festival and concert circuit and has appeared at the JVC Festival, Carnegie
Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France. Martin
Gayford, a reviewer for the British magazine, The Spectator, writes: "Tate
turned out to be that rarity of rarities, a bass player whose contribution,
rather than being a lot of plinking, plonking and skittering around the strings,
actually made musical sense."
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