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This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 and, since the development of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s, electric bass
Electric Bass

Electric bass can mean:* Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass.* Electric bass guitar....
 players. The most influential jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 double bassists
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton was an influential United States jazz double bassist. Blanton originated melodically conceived pizzicato and bowed bass solos.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937...
 (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
 band); Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
 (1926–2002), known for backing a number of bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
pers, including alto virtuoso Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
; hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 bassist Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
 (born 1937); and Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
 (1935–1969), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet was a bebop-oriented jazz quintet formed in 1955 by trumpet player Miles Davis. The quintet featured John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on double-bass, Philly Joe Jones on Drum kit and Miles Davis on the trumpet....
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This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 and, since the development of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s, electric bass
Electric Bass

Electric bass can mean:* Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass.* Electric bass guitar....
 players. The most influential jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 double bassists
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton was an influential United States jazz double bassist. Blanton originated melodically conceived pizzicato and bowed bass solos.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937...
 (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
 band); Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
 (1926–2002), known for backing a number of bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
pers, including alto virtuoso Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
; hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 bassist Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
 (born 1937); and Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
 (1935–1969), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet was a bebop-oriented jazz quintet formed in 1955 by trumpet player Miles Davis. The quintet featured John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on double-bass, Philly Joe Jones on Drum kit and Miles Davis on the trumpet....
. In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
 (1922–1979); free jazz
Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s.Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and '50s....
 and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
 (born 1937).

In the post-1970s era of jazz-rock fusion
Fusion

Fusion can refer to combining two or more distinct things*Cell fusion*Melting, a chemistry term for a solid undergoing a phase change into a liquid...
, the electric bass
Electric Bass

Electric bass can mean:* Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass.* Electric bass guitar....
 became an important jazz instrument; virtuoso Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an United States jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores....
 (born 1951) played both the double bass and the electric bass. Fusion performer Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III was an United States jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player, as well as his command of varied musical styles including jazz, jazz fusion, funk, and jazz-funk....
 contributed to the development of a new approach to the fretless electric bass, with his creative use of harmonics and chords in his solo recordings. In the 1990s and 2000s, one of the new "young lions" for jazz bass was Christian McBride
Christian McBride

Christian McBride is an United States jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors....
(born 1972).

A

  • Osama Afifi
    Osama Afifi

    Osama Afifi has been a bassist since 1985. He has recorded and performed live with many artists such as U.S. and Canadian tours with Yanni during the "Reflections of Passion", "In Celebration of Life", and "Dare to Dream " concert tours; a European and Canadian tour with French artist Vanessa Paradis; and a TV show on VH1 called Storytelle...
  • Ben Allison
    Ben Allison

    Ben Allison is an United States jazz double bassist and composer born in New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut.His groups include Peace Pipe, the Ben Allison Quartet, Medicine Wheel, the Kush Trio, Man Size Safe, and the Herbie Nichols Project ....
  • Arild Andersen
    Arild Andersen

    Arild Andersen is a Norway Double bass player.Born in Lillestr?m, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet , with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen....
  • Reid Anderson
    Reid Anderson

    Reid Anderson is a bassist and composer originally from Minnesota. Anderson is best known for his work in The Bad Plus with pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King ....
  • James Anton
    James Anton

    James "Jim" Anton, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Steve Tibbetts, Bradley Joseph, Jesse Johnson , Willie Wisely, Choying Drolma, Peter Ostroushko, Mandy Moore, John Gorka, Joey McIntyre, Delta Goodrem, Glen Phillips, and Jonny Lang....


B

  • Roy Babbington
    Roy Babbington

    Roy Babbington is a rock music and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock/jazz fusion band Soft Machine....
  • Victor Bailey
    Victor Bailey

    Victor Bailey is an United States bass guitar player.Bailey attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston after being disqualified from naval service due to asthma....
  • Fred Thelonious Baker
    Fred Thelonious Baker

    Fred Thelonious Baker is an English musician, born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, who plays bass guitar and guitar.Baker is predominantly known among Canterbury Scene music fans for his work with guitarist Phil Miller's band In Cahoots and his duo album with Miller, "Double Up" ; however, the bassist is also a respected musician on the British...
     (born 1960)
  • Jeff Berlin
    Jeff Berlin

    Jeff Berlin is an American bass guitar player. Since the mid-1970s, he has been known for his virtuosic jazz fusion and progressive rock bass playing....
     (born 1953)
  • Keter Betts
    Keter Betts

    Keter Betts was an United States jazz double bassist. Born William Thomas Betts in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito....
     (1928–2005)
  • Charlie Biddle
    Charlie Biddle

    Charlie Biddle, Order of Canada otherwise known as Charles Reed Biddle was a Canada jazz Double bass.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Biddle lived most of his life in Montreal, Quebec, however he did not become a Canadian citizen until his last years....
  • Jimmy Blanton
    Jimmy Blanton

    Jimmy Blanton was an influential United States jazz double bassist. Blanton originated melodically conceived pizzicato and bowed bass solos.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937...
     (1918–1942)
  • Wellman Braud
    Wellman Braud

    Wellman Braud was a United States jazz string bass player. He was a Creole. His family sometimes spelled their last name "Breaux", pronounced "Bro"....
     (1891–1966)
  • Richard Bona
    Richard Bona

    Richard Bona is a jazz musician and bassist, was born in October 28, 1967 in the town of Minta, in eastern Cameroon.Bona was born into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age....
  • Walter Booker
    Walter Booker

    Walter Booker was an American jazz. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable Double bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques....
     (1933–2006)
  • Brian Bromberg
    Brian Bromberg

    Brian Bromberg is an United States jazz bassist and record producer who performs on both Bass guitar and Double bass instruments. Though he tends to gravitate towards the genre of smooth jazz, Bromberg has released some straight-ahead jazz records in which he performs with a Trio , and has even ventured into more rock oriented jazz fusion te...
     (born 1960)
  • Harvey Brooks
    Harvey Brooks

    Harvey Brooks is an American bassist. He has played in many styles of music , and was folk rock's first notable bass guitarist.Brooks came out of a New York music scene that was crackling with activity in the early 1960s....
  • Baron Browne
    Baron Browne

    Baron Browne is an United States bass guitar.Born and raised in Georgia , USA, Baron Browne gravitated to music at a very early age, learning to play his uncle's drumset at 7 years old....
  • Cameron Brown
    Cameron Brown

    Cameron Brown is an United States jazz double bassist born in Detroit, Michigan.Cameron started studying music at age 10, first on piano, later on clarinet....
  • Ray Brown
    Ray Brown (musician)

    Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
     (1926–2002)
  • Steve Brown
    Steve Brown (bass player)

    Steve Brown was a jazz musician best known for his work on string bass. Like many of his fellow New Orleans, Louisiana bassists, he played both string bass and tuba professionally, as the two instruments fill similar roles in different types of bands....
  • Jack Bruce
    Jack Bruce

    John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
  • Bunny Brunel
    Bunny Brunel

    Bunny Brunel is a France-born United States bass guitarist who has played with various jazz notables including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and numerous others....
  • Monty Budwig
    Monty Budwig

    Monty Rex Budwig was a West Coast jazz double bassist.He was born in Pender, Nebraska, Nebraska. He began playing bass during high school, continuing in the military band while he was enlisted in the United States Air Force....
  • Oteil Burbridge
    Oteil Burbridge

    Oteil Burbridge, born 24 August 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age....


C

  • Red Callender
    Red Callender

    Red Callender, , was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for his work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars.Callender was born in Haynesville, Virginia....
  • Alain Caron
    Alain Caron (bass player)

    Alain Caron is a Canadian jazz musician born 1955 in Saint-?loi, Quebec, Quebec, the youngest of 11 children. He is considered to be a virtuoso 6-string bass guitar player, playing fretted, fretless, and MIDI bass....
  • Ron Carter
    Ron Carter

    Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar....
     (born 1937)
  • Paul Chambers
    Paul Chambers

    Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
     (1935–1969)
  • Stanley Clarke
    Stanley Clarke

    Stanley Clarke is an United States jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores....
  • Les Claypool
    Les Claypool

    Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is a musician, best known for his work with the band Primus and bass work. Claypool's mastery of the Bass guitar has brought him into the spotlight with his funky, creative playing style....
  • John Clayton
    John Clayton (bassist)

    John Clayton, Jr. is a Grammy-winning United States jazz and European classical music double bassist....
  • Jeff Clyne
    Jeff Clyne

    Jeffrey Ovid 'Jeff' Clyne is a British jazz bassist .He has worked with Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Blossom Dearie, Stan Tracey , Ian Carr, Gordon Beck , Zoot Sims, Norma Winstone, John Burch and Marion Montgomery....
  • Avishai Cohen
    Avishai Cohen

    Avishai Cohen is an Israeli jazz double bass, composer, singer and arranger....
  • Greg Cohen
    Greg Cohen

    Greg Cohen is a jazz bassist. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada ; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar album....
  • Graham Collier
    Graham Collier

    James Graham Collier is an England jazz bandleader and composer.He began playing trumpet in northern England and later worked in bands for the British Army....
  • Joe Comfort
    Joe Comfort

    Joe Comfort was an American jazz double bass. Comfort, from a musically oriented Los Angeles family, taught himself double bass and began performing with Lionel Hampton's orchestra in the late 1920s, and later began performing with Nat King Cole in a partnership that would continue until the early 1950s....
  • Todd Coolman
    Todd Coolman

    Todd Coolman is a world famous jazz double bass residing near New York City.Since moving to New York in 1978, he has performed with Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman....
  • Curtis Counce
    Curtis Counce

    Curtis Counce was an United States hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist. The fruit of his 1956 Contemporary Records studio collaboration with tenor great Harold Land, trumpeters Jack Sheldon and Gerald Wilson, pianist Carl Perkins and drummer Frank Butler was issued in 2007 on a double CD by Gambit Records....
  • Anthony Cox
    Anthony Cox

    Anthony Cox is a film producer and art promoter who was once married to Yoko Ono.He met Yoko Ono in 1961 after he saw some of her art work in an anthology and located her in Tokyo....
  • Bob Cranshaw
    Bob Cranshaw

    Melbourne R. "Bob" Cranshaw is an American jazz bass guitarist. His career spans the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the American Federation of Musicians....
  • Gary Crosby
    Gary Crosby (bassist)

    Gary Crosby is a jazz bassist.Crosby was born in London of Jamaican parents and is a nephew of the guitarist Ernest Ranglin. He began to study trumpet at the age of 13, although he had played around on various other instruments at home....
  • Israel Crosby
    Israel Crosby

    Israel Crosby was an African-American jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois, perhaps most notable for his work done with Gene Ammons, Gene Krupa, Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson, Raymond Scott, George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal and Teddy Wilson....
  • Bill Crow
    Bill Crow

    Bill Crow is a jazz Double bass and author.Crow has played with bands led by Mike Riley, John Benson Brooks, Teddy Charles, Stan Getz, Al Haig, Claude Thornhill, Terry Gibbs, Jerry Wald, Marian McPartland, Jimmy McPartland, Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer & Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon, Walter...


D

  • Palle Danielsson
    Palle Danielsson

    Palle Danielsson is a Sweden jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period....
  • Alec Dankworth
    Alec Dankworth

    Alec Dankworth is an England jazz Double bass and composer.Dankworth was born in London, the son of John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. He grew up in the villages of Aspley Guise and Wavendon, living at the Old Rectory, Wavendon, where his parents established the Wavendon All-Music Plan which includes the Stables Theatre....
  • Art Davis
    Art Davis

    Art Davis was a double-bassist, best known for his work with jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach....
  • Brian Day
    Brian Day

    Brian Day, Membership of the Royal College of Physicians , Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons , FRCS , is a physician in Canada and the 2007-2008 president of the Canadian Medical Association....
  • Richard Davis
    Richard Davis

    Richard Davis is an United States double bass player who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1977. Originally from Chicago, he first became known in that city before establishing himself in New York City for twenty-three years....
  • Chuck Deardorf
    Chuck Deardorf

    Chuck Deardorf, is an United States musician , best-known for playing double bass and bass guitar with numerous internationally known Jazz musicians....
  • Chuck Domanico
    Chuck Domanico

    Charles Louis Domanico , better known as Chuck Domanico, was an United States jazz bassist, playing both Double bass and Bass guitar bass on the West Coast jazz scene....
  • Mark Dresser
    Mark Dresser

    Mark Dresser is an United States virtuoso double bass player and composer.He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation....
  • Kermit Driscoll
    Kermit Driscoll

    Kermit Driscoll is a jazz bassist perhaps best known for his long association with guitarist Bill Frisell. He was born in Kearney, Nebraska. At age 5, Driscoll began playing piano, and picked up the bass guitar at 13....
  • Ray Drummond
    Ray Drummond

    Ray Drummond is a jazz double bass and teacher. He also has an Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop....
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn
  • Trevor Dunn
    Trevor Dunn

    Trevor Roy Dunn is an United States musician. His primary instrument is bass guitar and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college....
  • George Duvivier
    George Duvivier

    George Duvivier was an United States jazz Double bass player.Duvivier was born in New York City and took up the cello and also the violin while in high school before settling on the bass....
  • Mbizo Johnny Dyani
    Johnny Dyani

    Johnny Mbizo Dyani was a South African jazz double bassist and pianist who played with such musicians as Don Cherry , Steve Lacy, David Murray and Wadada Leo Smith....


E

  • Nathan East
    Nathan East

    Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, rhythm and blues and rock music bass guitar player. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego ....
  • Mark Egan
    Mark Egan

    See also Mark Egan .Mark Egan is an United States jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, perhaps best-known for his work with the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980....

F

  • Charles Fambrough
    Charles Fambrough

    Charles Fambrough is a double-bassist and composer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, whose songs have been recorded by the Art Blakey, Roy Hargrove, Stanley Turrentine, Craig Handy and Joe Ford....
  • Malachi Favors
    Malachi Favors

    Malachi Favors was a noted American jazz bassist best known for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.He primarily played the double bass, but also played the bass guitar, banjo, zither, gong, and other instruments....
  • Ric Fierabracci
    Ric Fierabracci

    Ric Fierabracci, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Frank Gambale, Chick Corea, Dave Weckl, Bradley Joseph, Shakira, Nancy Sinatra, Planet X, The Fifth Dimension, The Beach Boys, and Yanni....
  • Arnold Fishkind
  • Mo Foster
    Mo Foster

    Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and Rock music bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer....
  • Pops Foster
    Pops Foster

    George Murphy "Pops" Foster was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally....
  • Henry Franklin
    Henry Franklin

    Henry "Skipper" Franklin is an United States jazz double-bassist born in Los Angeles, California in 1940 who is the son of jazz trumpeter Sammy Franklin....


G

  • Renaud Garcia-Fons
    Renaud Garcia-Fons

    Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for his customised 5-stringed bass....
  • Juan Garcia-Herreros
    Juan Garcia-Herreros

    Juan Garcia-Herreros, also known as "The Snow Owl", is a native born Colombian Bassist & Composer, notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for his use of a customised 6-stringed Electric Contrabass Guitar....
  • Ed Garland
    Ed Garland

    Edward Bertram Garland was a New Orleans jazz string bass player. He was commonly known as "Ed Garland", and sometimes "Montudie Garland" .By about 1910, he was playing bass drum with brass bands, including Frankie Duson's Eagle Band....
  • Jimmy Garrison
    Jimmy Garrison

    Jimmy Garrison was an United States jazz double bassist best known for his long association with John Coltrane from 1961 – 1967. ...
  • Matthew Garrison
  • John Giblin
    John Giblin

    John Giblin is an internationally renowned session bassist who has worked with artists such as:-* Metro* Joan Armatrading* Peter Gabriel * Simple Minds ....
  • Doc Goldberg
    Doc Goldberg

    Doc Goldberg was a jazz bassist. He played in the Glenn Miller Big Band and the Will Bradley Trio, alongside Freddie Slack on piano and Ray McKinley on drums....
  • Eddie Gomez
    Eddie Gomez

    Edgar "Eddie" Gomez is a Puerto Rican people jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977....
  • Coleridge Goode
    Coleridge Goode

    Coleridge George Emerson Goode is a former English people Jamaican-born jazz bassist most noteworthy for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott....
  • Larry Grenadier
    Larry Grenadier

    Larry Grenadier is a jazz double bass. He has performed and recorded with John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau and Bill Stewart , among others....
  • Henry Grimes
    Henry Grimes

    Henry Grimes is a jazz double bassist.After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970....
  • Barry Guy
    Barry Guy

    Barry John Guy is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe....


H

  • Charlie Haden
    Charlie Haden

    Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
  • Bob Haggart
    Bob Haggart

    Bob Haggart was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger. He becamer a founder-member of the Bob Crosby Band . Arranged and part-composed several of the band's big successes....
  • Stuart Hamm
    Stuart Hamm

    Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings....
  • Nick Haywood
    Nick Haywood

    Nick Haywood is a prominent Australian jazz double bass player, composer and music educator in Melbourne.He has worked with many of Australia's best known Australian jazz musicians including Don Burrows, Dale Barlow, Paul Grabowsky, Bernie McGann, and James Morrison, and with many international jazz artists including Nat Adderley, Buddy Gre...
  • Percy Heath
    Percy Heath

    Percy Heath, , was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet.He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975....
  • Mark Helias
    Mark Helias

    Mark Helias is an United States jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Jersey.He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976....
  • Jonas Hellborg
    Jonas Hellborg

    Jonas Hellborg is a Sweden bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin , Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V....
  • Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
  • Derrick Hodge
    Derrick Hodge

    Derrick Hodge is an African-American bassist, composer, and music producer. He is also the founder of Son Of Knowledge Music and Son of Knowledge Entertainment....
  • Dave Holland
    Dave Holland

    Dave Holland is a United Kingdom jazz bassist and composer who is a significant representative of avant-garde jazz....
  • Major Holley
    Major Holley

    Major Holley was an American jazz upright bassist.Holley played violin and tuba when young and started playing bass while serving in the U.S....
  • Spike Hughes
    Spike Hughes

    Patrick "Spike" Cairn Hughes was a United Kingdom jazz musician, composer and music journalist. He was the son of Irish composer, writer and song collector Herbert Hughes ....
  • Patrick Thomas
    Patrick Thomas

    Patrick Thomas Jr. better known by his stage names Tracie Huntington or Traci Huntington is an United States double-bassist.Huntington was born in Cleveland, Ohio, his father was a country musician....
     (Traci Huntington), (born 1958)


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  • Dennis Irwin
    Dennis Irwin

    Dennis Irwin was an United States jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums....
  • Jeff Irwin
    Jeff Irwin

    Jeff Irwin is an East Nashville, Tennessee based multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Griffin House, , Cerys Matthews , Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken, Mat Kearney, Taylor Sorensen & the Trigger Code , and many others including the Counting Crows....
  • Chuck Israels
    Chuck Israels

    Charles H. "Chuck" Israels is a composer/arranger/double bass, best known for his work with the Bill Evans, and who has worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J....


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  • Anthony Jackson
    Anthony Jackson

    This article is about the musician. For the English actor, see Anthony Jackson .Anthony Jackson, is a Grammy Award-nominated United States bass guitar player based in New York City....
  • Chubby Jackson
    Chubby Jackson

    Greig Stewart 'Chubby' Jackson was an United States jazz double-bassist and band leader.Born in New York City, Jackson began at the age of seventeen as a clarinetist, but quickly changed to bass....
  • Paul Jackson
    Paul Jackson (bassist)

    Paul Jackson is an USA jazz bass guitarist. He has played with many of the great jazz artists, most notably playing bass on Herbie Hancock seminal album, Head Hunters....
  • Tom Jenkinson
  • Penn Jillette
    Penn Jillette

    Penn Fraser Jillette is an United States comedian, illusionist, juggling and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller....
  • Alphonso Johnson
    Alphonso Johnson

    Alphonso Johnson is a United States jazz bass guitar who has been influential since the early 1970s....
  • Bill Johnson
    Bill Johnson (jazz musician)

    William Manuel "Bill" Johnson , was an United States jazz musician, considered the father of the "slap" style of string bass playing.Johnson claimed to have started "slapping" the strings of his bass , after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s....
     (1872–1972)
  • Gordon Johnson
    Gordon Johnson (musician)

    Gordon "Gordy" Johnson, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists, a few of which include Bill Carrothers, Lorie Line, Chuck Mangione, Dewey Redman, Greg Brown, Peter Ostroushko, Paul Winter Consort, Cliff Eberhardt, Maynard Ferguson, Becky Schlegel, Benny Weinbeck, Bradley Joseph, and Stacey Kent....
  • Marc Johnson
    Marc Johnson

    Marc Johnson is an United States jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader.Johnson studied at the University of North Texas where he was a member of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band along with Lyle Mays....
  • Isham Jones
    Isham Jones

    Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, violinist, bassist and songwriter....
  • Percy Jones
    Percy Jones

    Percy Jones may refer to:* Percy Jones , Welsh world champion flyweight in 1914* Percy Jones , American baseball player* Percy Jones , bass guitarist...
  • Sam Jones
    Sam Jones

    Samuel Jones or Sam Jones may refer to:...
  • Jesse Boyd
    Jesse Boyd

    Jesse Boyd is an American Jazz double bass, session musician and music educator....


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  • Tom Kennedy
  • James King
    Jim King (saxophonist)

    Jim King was an original member of the United Kingdom rock band, Family . He played saxophone and harmonica, and sang occasional lead human voice on the band's first two albums, Music in a Doll's House and Family Entertainment . King also sang the entire lead vocal on "Observations From a Hill", a song on the latter album....
  • John Kirby
    John Kirby (musician)

    John Kirby , was a jazz double-bassist who played the trombone as well as tuba....
  • Andy Kirk
    Andy Kirk

    This article refers to the American Jazz saxophonist. For the Northern Irish footballer, see Andy Kirk Andrew Dewey Kirk was a jazz bass saxophonist and tuba best known as a bandleader....
  • Larry Klein
    Larry Klein

    Larry Klein is a music producer, songwriter and bass guitar player, commonly known for being the frequent musical collaborator, and ex-husband, of Joni Mitchell....
  • Teddy Kotick
    Teddy Kotick

    Teddy Kotick was a jazz double bass who appeared as a sideman with many of the leading figures of the 1940s and 1950s, including Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, Artie Shaw, Horace Silver and Bill Evans....
  • Peter Kowald
    Peter Kowald

    Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Br?tzmann, Ir?ne Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Karl E....


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  • Abraham Laboriel
    Abraham Laboriel

    Abraham Laboriel, Sr. is a Mexico bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as: "the most widely used session bassist of our time"....
  • Scott LaFaro
    Scott LaFaro

    Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz double bass, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans....
  • Bireli Lagrene
    Biréli Lagrčne

    Bir?li Lagr?ne is a French people guitarist and bassist. A "guitar phenomenon", according to John McLaughlin , he came to prominence in the 1980s via his manouche style....
  • Rick Laird
    Rick Laird

    Richard Quentin 'Rick' Laird is a jazz musician, born on February 5, 1941. He is a bass player best known for his place in The Mahavishnu Orchestra....
  • Tim Landers
    Tim Landers

    Timothy Gerard Landers is an United States bass guitarist, composer and record producer.He graduated from Brockton High School in 1975 and attended the Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1977, studying under Neil Stubenhaus and Whit Browne....
     (born 1957)
  • Chris Laurence
    Chris Laurence

    Chris Laurence is an England jazz double bassist born in London, perhaps most noteworthy for his 1980s work in various trios with Tony Oxley ....
  • Jack Lesberg
    Jack Lesberg

    Jack Lesberg was a jazz double-bassist.He performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, and Benny Goodman....
  • Herbie Lewis
    Herbie Lewis

    Herbie Lewis was an United States hard bop double bassist. He played or recorded with many prominent jazz musicians, including Cannonball Adderley, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Harold Land, Jackie McLean, Archie Shepp, and McCoy Tyner....
  • Joe Long
    Joe Long

    Joe Long is best known as the bass guitarist for The Four Seasons . At their peak, The Four Seasons made recordings that expressed the tough-but-tender sensibility of their home turf in the Northeast much in the way the Beach Boys encapsulated the world of Southern California in harmony and song....
  • Orlando "Cachaito" López
  • Curtis Lundy
    Curtis Lundy

    Curtis Lundy is an United States double bass, composer, producer, choir director, and arranger. Lundy is best-known for his work as part of jazz vocalist Betty Carter's band, which has at one point or another had several eventual renowned musicians pass through their ranks ....
  • Brian Lawrence
    Brian Lawrence

    Brian Michael Lawrence is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. He bats and throws right-handed....


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  • Michael Manring
    Michael Manring

    Michael Manring is an American bass guitar from the San Francisco Bay Area, ....
  • Nirehara Masahiro
    PE'Z

    is a Japanese jazz instrumental band consisting of five men, dubbed "The Samurai Jazz Band." They have been signed onto Sony Music Japan since 2008....
  • Ron Mathewson
    Ron Mathewson

    Ron Mathewson is a Scottish people jazz double bassist and bass guitarist born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland. Mathewson is best known for his years spent working with Ronnie Scott, but has also done recordings with such artists as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Ben Webster, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans....
  • Cecil McBee
    Cecil McBee

    Cecil McBee is an United States post bop jazz double bass, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." Allmusic called him "One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists"....
  • Christian McBride
    Christian McBride

    Christian McBride is an United States jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors....
  • Ron McClure
    Ron McClure

    Ron McClure , a double bass, has played in hard bop, jazz-rock, and free and bebop sessions and bands.He started on piano at age five, and later played accordion and bass....
  • Tommie Lee McKenzie
  • Al McKibbon
    Al McKibbon

    Al McKibbon was an American jazz double bassist, known for his work in bebop, hard bop, and Latin jazz.In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J....
  • Chucho Merchan
    Chucho Merchan

    Chucho Merchan is a session musician jazz double bass. Merchan was born December 25, 1953 in Bogot?, Colombia, and received a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University in 1980....
  • Pierre Michelot
    Pierre Michelot

    Pierre Michelot was a France bebop and hard bop double bass player.Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen....
  • Harry Miller
    Harry Miller (jazz bassist)

    Harold Simon 'Harry' Miller was a South Africa jazz double bass player.Miller began his career as a bassist with Manfred Mann, and came to settle in London....
  • Marcus Miller
    Marcus Miller

    Marcus Miller is a Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.Miller is perhaps best known as a bass guitarist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn as well as a prolific solo career....
     (born 1959)
  • Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
     (1922–1979)
  • Red Mitchell
    Red Mitchell

    Keith Moore Mitchell , better known as Red Mitchell, was an United States jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
  • Charnett Moffett
    Charnett Moffett

    Charnett Moffett is an United States jazz musician who plays piccolo bass, double bass and bass guitar.Moffett's given name was created as a combination of that of his father and that of Ornette Coleman ....
  • Glen Moore
    Glen Moore

    Glen Moore is a jazz double bass who occasionally performs on piano, flute and violin.His performing career began at age 14 with the Young Oregonians in Portland, Oregon where he met and played with Native American saxophonist, Jim Pepper....
  • Michael Moore
    Michael Moore (bassist)

    Michael Moore is an American jazz bassist.Moore started on bass at age 15, and played with his father in nightclubs in Cincinnati. He attended the Cincinnati College Conservatory, playing with Cal Collins and Woody Evans locally....
  • George Morrow
  • George Mraz
    George Mraz

    George Mraz is a jazz double bass and alto saxophone. He attended the Berklee College of Music in 1970. He can be heard on Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko and Bossas & Ballads - The Lost Sessions....


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  • Buell Neidlinger
    Buell Neidlinger

    Buell Neidlinger is an United States cello and double bassist.Neidlinger was born in Westport, Connecticut. After Yale University, he moved to New York City and began playing in various jazz settings....


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  • Niels-Henning Řrsted Pedersen
    Niels-Henning Řrsted Pedersen

    Niels-Henning ?rsted Pedersen was a Denmark jazz Double Bass known for his impressive technique and an approach that could be considered an extension of the innovative work of Scott LaFaro....
     (1946–2005)


  • Ugonna Okegwo


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  • Walter Page
    Walter Page

    Walter Sylvester Page , nicknamed "Hoss," was an African American jazz bassist and leader of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils jazz orchestra from 1925–1931....
  • William Parker
    William Parker (musician)

    William Parker is an United States free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition....
  • Jaco Pastorius
    Jaco Pastorius

    John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III was an United States jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player, as well as his command of varied musical styles including jazz, jazz fusion, funk, and jazz-funk....
     (1951–1987)
  • John Patitucci
    John Patitucci

    John Patitucci is an United States Grammy Award nominated jazz double bass and bass guitar player, specializing in post-bop, jazz fusion and Brazilian jazz....
  • Gary Peacock
    Gary Peacock

    Gary Peacock is an United States jazz double-bassist.After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessell, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York....
  • Aladár Pege
    Aladár Pege

    Alad?r Pege , was a jazz musician from Hungary. He was well known for his work and was dubbed "the Paganini of double bass".He was chosen as best Solo of Europe in 1970, performed at Carnegie Hall and worked with Herbie Hancock....
  • Oscar Pettiford
    Oscar Pettiford

    Oscar Pettiford was an United States jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop....
  • Barre Phillips
    Barre Phillips

    Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation double bass. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967....
  • Terry Plumeri
    Terry Plumeri

    Terry Plumeri is an United States jazz bassist, and film and classical music composer....
  • Robert Popwell
    Robert Popwell

    Robert Popwell is a jazz-funk bass guitarist.Known as "Pops", he played with The Young Rascals, The Crusaders and the Atlanta Disco Band. He has played on albums by Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Ron Wood, Al Jarreau, Bobby Womack, Terry Bradds, Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, Greg Allman, Bob Dylan, B....


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  • Gary Raynor
    Gary Raynor

    Gary Raynor is a bassist best known for his appearances in the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band in the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." He has also played with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s backing band, and a host of other jazz artists, including Count Basie....
  • Rufus Reid
    Rufus Reid

    Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey....
  • Eric Revis
    Eric Revis

    Eric Revis is a jazz double bass and composer. Revis came to prominence as a jazz bassist playing with the legendary Betty Carter in the mid-1990's and since 1997 has been a solid member of Branford Marsalis' ensemble....
  • Sage Reynolds
    Sage Reynolds

    Double-bassist and composer Sage Reynolds is highly active on the Montr?al music scene performing and writing in a variety of musical styles and contexts....
  • Jim Richardson
    Jim Richardson (musician)

    James Anthony Jim "Jimbo" Richardson born February 16, 1941, Tottenham, London, is a British jazz bassist and session musician.An original member of pioneering British jazz-rock band, if , he went on to doing intensive session and studio work....
  • Georg Riedel
    Georg Riedel

    Georg Riedel , is a Sweden double bass player and composer. Riedel migrated to Sweden at the age of four and went to school in Stockholm. He is of Jewish descent....
  • Steve Rodby
    Steve Rodby

    Steve Rodby is a bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny, he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble....
  • Curly Russell


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  • Eddie Safranski
    Eddie Safranski

    Eddie Safranski was an United States jazz double bassist best known for his work with Stan Kenton. He had also worked with Charlie Barnet and Benny Goodman From 1946 to 1953 he won the Down Beat Readers' Poll for bassist....
  • Tony Scherr
    Tony Scherr

    Tony Scherr is an American jazz and folk rock bassist, guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer....
  • Lynn Seaton
    Lynn Seaton

    Lynn Seaton is a jazz double bass associated with bebop and Swing music. He is rarely the lead with 1991's Bassman's Basement being an exception....
  • Karl E. H. Seigfried
    Karl E. H. Seigfried

    Karl E. H. Seigfried is a German-American jazz, Rock music, and classical music bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, and educator based in Chicago....
  • Clarence Seay
    Clarence Seay

    Clarence Seay is a jazz bassist and composer.He has been an acoustic bassist with the Wallace Roney Quintet for over 15 years. Seay, also known as ?Big C?, is a disciple of the Paul Chambers school of jazz bass playing which features a style of walking harmonically inventive bass lines in a robust manner by positioning strings relatively...
  • Alan Silva
    Alan Silva

    Alan Silva is an United States of America free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.Born a British subject to an Azores Portugal woman and a black Bermudian man known only as "Ruby" at the very height of segregation, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U.S....
  • Avery Sharpe
    Avery Sharpe

    Avery Sharpe is an American jazz double-bassist.Sharpe began playing piano at age eight and also studied accordion in his youth. He learned both electric and acoustic bass as a teenager, then studied with Reggie Workman at the University of Massachusetts....
  • Len Skeat
    Len Skeat

    Len Skeat is an England jazz double-bassist born in East London, England, perhaps best-known for his work with the Ted Heath band. Skeat has recorded with some prominent jazz artists, such as Mel Torm?, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Scott Hamilton , Helen Merrill, Lou Rawls, Harry Edison, Denny Wright, Digby Fairweather, Spik...
  • Řyvind Storesund
    Kaizers Orchestra

    Kaizers Orchestra is a Norway Alternative rock Rock music Musical ensemble formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Sn?tt & Juling in 1989....
  • Esperanza Spalding
    Esperanza Spalding

    Esperanza Spalding is an United States jazz bassist and singer....
  • Neal Starkey
    Neal Starkey

    Neal Starkey is an United States jazz Double bass residing in Atlanta, Georgia. He has had a long and varied career, performing with many of the most notable names in jazz, including Kenny Barron, Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Duke Pearson, Al Cohn, Charlie Rouse, Barney Kessel and many others....
  • Leroy "Slam" Stewart
    Slam Stewart

    Leroy Eliot 'Slam' Stewart was an African American jazz double bass player whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher....
  • Ben Street
    Ben Street

    Ben Street is a New York-area jazz double-bassist. He has played with many great jazz artists, notably Kurt Rosenwinkel on the Album "Next Step," Ben Monder on the Album "Dust" and the legendary Sam Rivers on the Album "Violet Violets." ...
  • Ike Sturm
    Ike Sturm

    Ike Sturm is a well known double bass, composer and educator in New York City, USA. Ike Sturm is most known for his work as Assistant Director of Music for the Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter?s Church in Manhattan....
  • Steve Swallow
    Steve Swallow

    Steve Swallow is a jazz bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.As a child, Swallow studied piano and trumpet before turning to the double bass at age 14....


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  • Jamaaladeen Tacuma
    Jamaaladeen Tacuma

    Jamaaladeen Tacuma is an United States free jazz bassist born in Hempstead , New York, perhaps best known for his albums as bandleader on the Gramavision label and for his work with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s ....
  • Carl Frederick Tandberg
    Carl Frederick Tandberg

    Carl Frederick Tandberg , was a bass fiddle musician who recorded with Glen Campbell and Frankie Ortega....
  • Henri Texier
    Henri Texier

    Henri Texier is a France jazz double bassist born in Paris, perhaps best-known for his 1960s work with Don Cherry and for his 1980s band the "Transatlantik Quartet", which featured Joe Lovano, Steve Swallow and Aldo Romano....
  • Chris Thomas
    Chris Thomas

    Chris Thomas may refer to:* Chris Thomas , former wide receiver in the NFL* Chris Thomas , former men's basketball player for the University of Notre Dame...
  • Craig Thomas
    Craig Thomas

    Craig Thomas may refer to:* Craig L. Thomas , American politician who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007* Craig Thomas , Welsh writer of techno-thrillers, whose best-known novel, Firefox , became a successful film...
  • Danny Thompson
    Danny Thompson

    Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an England double bass player. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Martyn , but including many others: at various times has for example played with Roy Orbison, Freddie and the Dreamers, Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, To...
  • Wayman Tisdale
    Wayman Tisdale

    Wayman Lawrence Tisdale is a retired United States professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association and now a smooth jazz bass guitarist and a member of the Oklahoma Tourism Board....
  • Brian Torff


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  • Phil Upchurch
    Phil Upchurch

    Phil Upchurch is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues guitarist and bass guitar....


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  • Hein Van de Geyn
    Hein Van de Geyn

    Hein van de Geyn is a jazz double bass, composer and band leader from the Netherlands. He is a critically acclaimed artist and performer, appearing on many jazz records, both as a sideman and solo....
  • Jayen Varma
    Jayen Varma

    Jayen Varma is an electric bass player. His background in Indian Indian classical music percusion instrument mridangam, facilitated him to apply tabla/mridangam style finger slap on the bass guitar....
  • Mads Vinding
    Mads Vinding

    Mads Vinding is a Denmark jazz double-bassist.He is an example of world-class Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit....
  • Leroy Vinnegar
    Leroy Vinnegar

    Leroy Vinnegar was an United States jazz double bass.Born in Indianapolis, the self-taught Vinnegar established his reputation in Los Angeles during the 1950s and '60s....
  • Miroslav Vitous
    Miroslav Vitouš

    Miroslav Ladislav Vitou?, born 6 December 1947) is a Czechs jazz double bass who was born in Prague. He began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen....
  • Louis Vola
    Louis Vola

    Louis Vola , was a France double-bassist famous for his work with the Quintette du Hot Club de France.As well as the Hot Club de France, Vola played bass for Ray Ventura, Duke Ellington and singer Charles Trenet....


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  • Steve Wallace
    Steve Wallace

    Steve Wallace may refer to:*Steve Wallace , stock car driver*Steve Wallace , former NFL football player*Stephen Wallis, Australian rules footballer ...
  • Wilbur Ware
    Wilbur Ware

    Wilbur Ware was an United States jazz double-bassist known for his hard bop percussive style.Born in Chicago, Ware taught himself to play banjo and bass....
  • Butch Warren
    Butch Warren

    Butch Warren is an United States jazz double bassist who plays in the hard bop genre. He was especially active in the late-50s and the 1960s....
  • Rob Wasserman
    Rob Wasserman

    Rob Wasserman is a Bass guitar player who has played with a wide variety of illustrious artists including Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia,Bruce Cockburn,Van Morrison,Rickie Lee Jones, Brian Wilson,Elvis Costello,Mark Morris,Aaron Neville,Chris Whitley,Studs Terkel,Pete Seeger,Neil Young,Ani di Franco, Banyan ,Oingo Boingo and many others....
  • Doug Watkins
    Doug Watkins

    Douglas Watkins was an United States hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.An original member of the Art Blakey, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, and Phil Woods among countless others....
  • Eberhard Weber
    Eberhard Weber

    Eberhard Weber is a Germany double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM sound....
  • Buster Williams
    Buster Williams

    Charles Anthony Williams is an United States jazz Double bass.Williams has gained prestige among jazz musicians as a solid supportive player....
  • Gary Willis
    Gary Willis

    Gary Willis is an American bass guitar and composer known foremost as the co-founder of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz musicians including Wayne Shorter, Dennis Chambers, and Allan Holdsworth....
  • Chris Wood
    Chris Wood (jazz musician)

    Christopher Barry Wood is an American bass player, best known for playing with the avant-garde jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood....
  • Jimmy Woode
    Jimmy Woode

    Jimmy Woode was a jazz double bass. His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who played with Hot Lips Page. Woode studied piano and bass in Boston at Boston University and at the Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Philadelphia Academy....
  • Victor Lemonte Wooten
    Victor Wooten

    Victor Lemonte Wooten is an electric bass player. He is known for his technical Virtuoso and his skills as musician, composer, and author. Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once....
  • Reggie Workman
    Reggie Workman

    Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an United States avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his important work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  • Eugene Wright
    Eugene Wright

    "The Senator" Eugene Wright is an United States jazz Double bassist, best known for his work as a member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet, in particular on the group's most famous album Time Out , with pianist Dave Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and saxophonist Paul Desmond....


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  • Dave Young


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  • Stuart Zender
    Stuart Zender

    Stuart Patrick Jude Zender was born on 18 March 1974 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Raised in Philadelphia, he attended Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire, Berkshire known for its strength in music, he is a bass guitar guitarist, songwriter and music producer....