[78-L] Louis Armstrong's bass player

[Jeffrey Lichtman]

It sounds like a kick drum to me. It doesn't have the sharp attack of a 
plucked bass, and the pitch never changes.

On 6/8/2015 11:47 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
> There's a prominent string bass audible on the Armstrong session of
> December 12, 1928, which produced "Heah Me Talkin' To Ya?, "St. James'
> Infirmary" and "Tight Like This". This seems to have eluded
> discographers. At first I thought it might be Zutty Singleton thumping
> away on bass drum, but his cymbals appear to be at the other end of the
> studio.
>
>         Julian Vein
>

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