11.   Bass players, whether it be a double bass, a tuba or a bass guitar, have a quiet reassurance that their role is important.

12.   Before long, the bass player had a broken leg.

13.   Bob Cunningham, a bass player and frequent guest, admired her focus on the music.

14.   A debut by a young jazz bass player who writes witty, thoughtful, sweet-and-sour small-group music.

15.   Durham conscripted bass player Geoff Stanfield, a San Francisco native who had played with such local bands as Pieces of Lisa and Asthma.

16.   Drummer Sergio Vall and bass player El Nino hold down the fort in Buenos Aires.

17.   Everybody needs a bass player.

18.   Entwistle is the prototype of the stoic bass player, the rock role model in the pre-grunge era.

19.   Fast and slow, the music accompanies both couples with the men pretending to be bass players swinging their arms to the women in front.

20.   Happily, his mentor, Ralph Jones, the principal bass player of the Atlanta Symphony, is helping Thompson arrange financing for a new instrument.