- Norman Bates (musician)
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For the fictional character, see Norman Bates.
Norman Louis Bates (born August 26, 1927, Boise, Idaho) is an American jazz double-bass player.
Bates is the brother of Bob Bates. He played in Jimmy Dorsey's band in 1945-46 and with Raymond Scott and Carmen Cavallaro shortly thereafter. In 1948 he played in a trio with Dave Brubeck, and in 1949 with Paul Desmond. He recorded with Jack Sheedy's Dixieland Jazz Band in 1950. After spending four years in the Air Force, Bates played with Wally Rose's Dixieland Band in 1955 and then replaced his brother in Brubeck's quartet, playing on the album Jazz Goes to Junior College among others. He also recorded with Desmond's group again in 1956. In 1957 he left Brubeck, and led a trio in San Francisco.
References
- Lawrence Koch, "Norman Bates". Grove Jazz online.
Discography Dave Brubeck Octet (1950) • Jazz at Oberlin (1953) • Jazz at the College of the Pacific (1953) • Jazz Goes to College (1954) • Brubeck Time (1955) • Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955) • Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) • Jazz Impressions of the USA (1956) • Plays and Plays and... (1957) • Dave Digs Disney (1957) • Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958) • Newport 1958 • Gone with the Wind (1959) • Time Out (1959) • Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1960) • Brubeck and Rushing (1960) • Time Further Out (1961) • The Real Ambassadors (1962) • Countdown-Time in Outer Space (1962) • At Carnegie Hall (1963) • Time Changes (1963) • Jazz Impressions of Japan (1964) • Jazz Impressions of New York (1964) • Angel Eyes (1965) • My Favorite Things (1965) • Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits (1966) • Time In (1966) • Anything Goes (1966) • Bravo! Brubeck! (1967) • The Last Time We Saw Paris (1967) • Compadres (1968) • Blues Roots (1969) • Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970) • The Last Set at Newport • (1971) "Another step forward" - Ovation label • We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973) • Two Generations of Brubeck (1973) • Brubeck & Desmond 1975: the Duets • DBQ 25th Anniversary Reunion (1976) • The New Brubeck Quartet Live at Montreux (1978) • Back Home (1979) • Tritonis (1980) • Paper Moon (1982) • Concord on a Summer Night (1982) • For Iola (1984) • Blue Rondo (1987) • Moscow Night (1987) • The Great Concerts (1988) • Quiet As the Moon (1991) • Late Night Brubeck (1994) • Just You, Just Me (1994) • The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K. (1999) • One Alone (2000) • Park Avenue South (2003)Categories:- American jazz double-bassists
- Musicians from Idaho
- Living people
- 1927 births
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