GONE Receives National Attention

GONE hit #2 on the national Jazz Week charts after only 3 weeks.
The album also made the 2010 Jazz Week Top 100 Jazz chart and Mi Guajira made the Top 10 Downloaded MP3s list on AllAboutJazz.

Dave's compositions are vividly brought to life by saxophonist Ernie Watts, drummer/percussionist Babatunde Lea and vocalist Mary Stallings.

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Gone: The Dave Bass Quintet with vocalist Ann Roach

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Excerpts from All About Jazz Review

If Dave Bass ever decides to give up his day job as a Deputy Attorney General, he can validate that decision based on the quality of Gone.

His compositions demonstrate inventive writing and arranging. Mi Guajira has a distinctively Latin beat, highlighted by a stellar solo from Watts that leads into a piano solo that would make Gonzalo Rubalcaba take notice. Another Ending features Bass sounding like the musical offspring of Mary Lou Williams and Abdullah Ibrahim, albeit with highly modernized rhythmic standards.

Gone exemplifies the capabilities of an artist who can combine a big-picture mindset and diverse talents. It's a great platform for the kind of musical and intellectual aptitude that can bridge varied attributes of an abstract process.

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