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Sid Bass
12+ albums
loungejazzswingUSAAll
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Sid Bass was an American composer, producer and arranger, active mainly in the 1950s-1960s. Born 22 January 1913 in New York City, he was educated at New York University, Bass worked for Muzak before joining RCA as a staff composer. While with RCA, he recorded a number pre-stereo hi-fi showcase music albums for RCA's budget label, Vik. The 1956 album "From Another World" is the best known of these. Bass worked as an A&R man for a small label, Jubilee Records, in the late 1950s, and spent much of the 1960s as a producer for Muzak, pumping out covers of thousands of tunes. He also produced and arranged without credit a number of albums for RCA's budget label, Camden. Percussionist Phil Kraus recalls a lightning-fast session with Bass during which they recorded an entire album--10 cuts--of covers of current rock-n-roll hits in under 90 minutes. Bass popped (credited) again late in the sixties with Moog Espana, adapting a full palette of electronic sounds to Latin standards, much as Marty Gold adapted it to Beatles tunes. He died on June 19th, 1993 in Puney, Vermont. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
