This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

 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*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

 players.

The most influential jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

ists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton

Jimmie Blanton was an influential American jazz double bassist. Blanton is credited with being the originator of pizzicato and bowed bass solos....

 (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

 band); Ray Brown

Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist.-Biography:Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one...

 (1926–2002), known for backing a number of bebop

Bebop

Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...

pers, including alto virtuoso Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....

; a singular creative force was Wilbur Ware

Wilbur Ware

Wilbur Ware was an American jazz double-bassist known for his hard bop percussive style.Born in Chicago, Ware taught himself to play banjo and bass. In the 1940s, he worked with Stuff Smith, Sonny Stitt and Roy Eldridge. In the 1950s, Ware played with Eddie Vinson, Art Blakey, and Buddy DeFranco...

 (1923–1979) legendary bassist with Monk and others, hard bop

Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...

 bassist Ron Carter

Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. 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. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...

 (born 1937); and Paul Chambers

Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of 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, intonation, and virtuosic...

 (1935–1969), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet

Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet was an American jazz band from 1955 to early 1969 led by Miles Davis. The quintet underwent frequent personnel changes toward its metamorphosis into a different ensemble in 1969...

.

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 Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

 (1922–1979) and 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 1950s...

 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

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

, the electric bass

Electric Bass

Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...

 became an important jazz instrument; virtuoso Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric 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 Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....

 (1951–1987) 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 American 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). JazzTimes

JazzTimes

JazzTimes is a magazine that dates back to Radio Free Jazz, a publication founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin when he was operating a record store in Washington, DC. It was originally a newsletter designed to update shoppers on the latest jazz releases and provide jazz radio programmers with a means of...

 names Avishai Cohen (born 1970) as "among the elite bassists on the scene today."

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• Ahmed Abdul-Malik
  Ahmed Abdul-Malik
  Ahmed Abdul-Malik was a jazz double bassist and oud player of Sudanese descent....
  
  
• Osama Afifi
  Osama Afifi
  Osama Afifi has been a professional bassist since 1983. He has recorded and performed live with many artists such as U.S. and Canadian tours with Yanni during the "Reflections of Passion", "Revolution in Sound", and "Dare to Dream" concert tours; a European and Canadian tour with French artist...
  
  
• Moses Allen
  Moses Allen (musician)
  Moses Allen was an American jazz bassist born in Memphis, Tennessee.Allen began professionally playing music in 1927 after he joined Jimmie Lunceford's band, where he played the tuba. He switched to bass in 1932, remaining with Lunceford's orchestra until 1942. Allen's bass playing was a key...
  
  
• Vernon Alley
  Vernon Alley
  Vernon Alley was an American jazz bassist.Alley was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, and played football in high school and college. His brother, Eddy Allen, was a drummer; they played together often. Vernon played with Wes People in 1937 and with Saunders King until the end of the decade...
  
   (1915–2004)
• Ben Allison
  Ben Allison
  Ben Allison is an American jazz double bassist and composer born in New Haven, Connecticut.His groups include The Ben Allison Band, Peace Pipe, the Ben Allison Quartet, Medicine Wheel, the Kush Trio, Man Size Safe, and the Herbie Nichols Project...
  
  
• Hayes Alvis
  Hayes Alvis
  Hayes Alvis was an American jazz bassist and tubist.Born in Chicago on May 1, 1907, Alvis began on drums but switched to tuba and bass after playing with Jelly Roll Morton in 1927-28...
  
  
• Arild Andersen
  Arild Andersen
  Arild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player.Born in Lillestrøm, 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 Dave King...
  
  
• James Anton
  James Anton
  James "Jim" Anton, is an American bass guitarist 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. He has also...
  
  

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• Roy Babbington
  Roy Babbington
  Roy Babbington is a rock and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock/jazz fusion band Soft Machine.-Biography:...
  
  
• Victor Bailey (born 1960)
• Fred Thelonious Baker
  Fred Thelonious Baker
  Fred Thelonious Baker is an English guitarist and bass guitarist from Tibshelf, Derbyshire. He is known for playing in Phil Miller's Canterbury scene band In Cahoots....
  
   (born 1960)
• Phil Bates
  Phil Bates (jazz musician)
  Philip Francis Bates, born Brixton, London, 19 June 1931, is an English jazz double bassist.After playing regular gigs at London’s 51 Club with Harry Klein and Vic Ash throughout 1956, he joined The Jazz Couriers with Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott...
  
  
• Joe Benjamin
  Joe Benjamin
  Joseph Rupert "Joe" Benjamin was an American jazz bassist.Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Benjamin played with numerous high-profile jazz musicians in a variety of idioms...
  
   (1919–1974)
• Max Bennett
  Max Bennett (musician)
  Max Bennett is an American jazz bassist and session musician.Bennett grew up in Kansas City and Oskaloosa, Iowa, and went to college in Iowa. His first professional gig was with Herbie Fields in 1949, and following this he played with Georgie Auld, Terry Gibbs, and Charlie Ventura...
  
  
• Jeff Berlin
  Jeff Berlin
  Jeff Berlin is an American jazz, jazz fusion and progressive rock electric bass player.Jeff Berlin's bass playing is somewhat similar to that of Jaco Pastorius, though Berlin plays a fretted bass and has stated his distaste for Jaco imitators.-Early life:Jeff Berlin was born to parents who were...
  
   (born 1953)
• Artie Bernstein
  Artie Bernstein
  Arthur "Artie" Bernstein was an American jazz bassist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his musical career playing cello on board cruise ships to South America, and also studied law at New York University. However, by 1929 he had started playing bass, and began performing in clubs around New...
  
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• Keter Betts
  Keter Betts
  Keter Betts was an American jazz double bassist. Born William Thomas Betts in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito.-Career:...
  
   (1928–2005)
• Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle
  Charlie Biddle, otherwise known as Charles Reed Biddle was a Canadian jazz bassist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jimmy Blanton
  Jimmy Blanton
  Jimmie Blanton was an influential American jazz double bassist. Blanton is credited with being the originator of pizzicato and bowed bass solos....
  
   (1918–1942)
• Richard Bona
  Richard Bona
  Richard Bona is a jazz bassist and musician. His real African name, as he said live in Montreal in a show with Bobby McFerrin, is Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo...
  
   (born 1967)
• Walter Booker
  Walter Booker
  Walter Booker was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques.-Biography:Booker moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in the mid 1940s...
  
   (1933–2006)
• Arthur "Juinie" Booth
  Jiunie Booth
  Arthur Edward Booth , known as Jiunie, Junie, Junius, Joony, Juini, etc., is an American jazz double-bassist.Booth began playing piano at about age eight, and switched to bass at 12...
  
   (born 1948)
• Nelson Boyd
  Nelson Boyd
  Nelson Boyd was an American bebop jazz bassist.Born in Camden, New Jersey, Boyd played in local orchestras in Philadelphia around 1945, and moved in 1947 to New York. There he played with Coleman Hawkins, Tadd Dameron, and Dexter Gordon, and subsequently with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, and...
  
  
• Ronnie Boykins
  Ronnie Boykins
  Ronnie Boykins was a jazz bassist and is best known for his work with pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, although he had played with such disparate musicians as Muddy Waters, Johnny Griffin, and Jimmy Witherspoon prior to joining Sun Ra's Arkestra.-Biography:He joined the Arkestra during the Chicago...
  
  
• Wellman Braud
  Wellman Braud
  Wellman Braud was a Creole American jazz upright bassist. His family sometimes spelled their last name "Breaux", pronounced "Bro"....
  
   (1891–1966)
• Brian Bromberg
  Brian Bromberg
  Brian Bromberg is an American jazz bassist and record producer who performs on both electric and acoustic instruments...
  
   (born 1960)
• Harvey Brooks
  Harvey Brooks
  Harvey Brooks is an American bassist. He has played in many styles of music...
  
   (born 1944)
• Baron Browne
  Baron Browne
  Baron Browne is an American bassist.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
• Ray Brown
  Ray Brown (musician)
  Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist.-Biography:Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one...
  
   (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.Brown was the younger brother of trombonist...
  
  
• Jack Bruce
  Jack Bruce
  John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
  
  
• Bunny Brunel
  Bunny Brunel
  Bunny Brunel is a French-born American 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. He began playing bass during high school, continuing in the military band while he was enlisted in the Air Force....
  
  
• Tony Bunn
  Tony Bunn
  Robert Anthony Bunn, also known as Tony Bunn, is an American bassist, composer, producer, and writer.His instruments are bass guitar, upright bass, voice, and mind. His styles are jazz, funk, blues, and rock.-Biography :...
  
   (born 1957)
• Oteil Burbridge
  Oteil Burbridge
  Oteil Burbridge, in Washington, D.C.), is a Grammy Award-nominated American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the current resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band...
  
  
• Lennie Bush
  Lennie Bush
  Leonard Walter "Lennie" Bush was an English jazz double-bassist.Bush contracted polio as a child and as a result possessed a limp for the rest of his life...
  
  

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• Red Callender
  Red Callender
  Red Callender, , was a jazz bass and tuba player, famous for turning down a chance to work with Duke Ellington's Orchestra and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars....
  
  
• James Cammack
  James Cammack
  James Alfred Conrad Cammack Jr. is an African American bassist, from the region of Cornwall, NY.He is the bassist for the Ahmad Jamal Trio, which includes the founder, Ahmad Jamal and drummer, Idris Muhammad. Cammack both records and tours with the trio...
  
  
• Alain Caron
  Alain Caron (bass player)
  Alain Caron is a French Canadian jazz bassist.The youngest of 11 children, Caron started playing bass at age 11 and began pursuing jazz at age 15...
  
  
• Ron Carter
  Ron Carter
  Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. 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. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...
  
   (born 1937)
• Malcolm Cecil
  Malcolm Cecil
  Malcolm Cecil is a British jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winning record producer.A founding member of the UK's leading jazz quintet of the late 1950s, The Jazz Couriers, he went on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey, Tony Crombie and Ronnie Scott in the late 50s and...
  
  
• Clive Chaman
  Clive Chaman
  Clive Chaman was born in Trinidad and is a UK-based bass guitarist and session musician.After appearing on Ram John Holder's 1969 London Blues album, Chaman became a member of the second Jeff Beck Group in 1971 until they disbanded in 1973 when he joined Cozy Powell's band Hammer...
  
  
• Paul Chambers
  Paul Chambers
  Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of 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, intonation, and virtuosic...
  
   (1935–1969)
• Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
   (born 1951)
• Les Claypool
  Les Claypool
  Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.Claypool has also self produced and engineered his...
  
  
• John Clayton
  John Clayton (bassist)
  John Travis Clayton Jr. is an American jazz and classical double bassist.-Music:John Travis Clayton Jr. began seriously undertaking the study of double bass at age 16, studying with bass legend Ray Brown...
  
  
• Jeff Clyne
  Jeff Clyne
  Jeffrey Ovid 'Jeff' Clyne was a British jazz bassist .-Biography:...
  
  
• Avishai Cohen (born 1970)
• Greg Cohen
  Greg Cohen
  A native of Los Angeles, bassist Greg Cohen has been playing in various acclaimed music groups since the '60s. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar...
  
  
• Ira Coleman
  Ira Coleman (musician)
  Ira Coleman is an American jazz bassist.He appears on four albums by Paris-based pianist Laurent de Wilde and has worked with artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Milt Jackson, Ulf Wakenius, John Esposito, Joanne Brackeen, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams....
  
  
• Graham Collier
  Graham Collier
  James Graham Collier OBE was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer.-Life and career:Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong...
  
  
• Joe Comfort
• Todd Coolman
  Todd Coolman
  Todd Coolman is a jazz bassist 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. Coolman recently recorded “Lexicon”...
  
  
• Curtis Counce
  Curtis Counce
  Curtis Counce was an American hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist. The fruit of his 1956 Contemporary Records studio collaboration with tenor saxophonist Harold Land, trumpeters Jack Sheldon and Gerald Wilson, pianist Carl Perkins and drummer Frank Butler was issued in 2007 on a double CD...
  
  
• Anthony Cox
  Anthony Cox (musician)
  Anthony Cox is an American jazz bass player.Played with: Geri Allen, Dewey Redman, Dave Douglas, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Gary Thomas, Marty Ehrlich, Ed Blackwell, Joe Lovano, Dave King, and others.Lives and plays in Minnesota....
  
  
• Bob Cranshaw
  Bob Cranshaw
  Melbourne R. "Bob" Cranshaw is an American jazz bassist. His career spans the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins...
  
  
• Gary Crosby
  Gary Crosby (bassist)
  Gary Crosby OBE is a jazz double bassist, music arranger, educator and Executive Artistic Director of...
  
  
• Israel Crosby
  Israel Crosby
  Israel Crosby was an African-American jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois, best known as member of the Ahmad Jamal trio from 1957-1962...
  
  
• Bill Crow
  Bill Crow
  Bill Crow is an American jazz bassist and author.Crow was born in Othello, Washington in the United States of America, but spent his childhood in Kirkland, Washington. After high school, he briefly played sousaphone at the University of Washington in Seattle...
  
  

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• Palle Danielsson
  Palle Danielsson
  Palle Danielsson is a Swedish 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.-Career:...
  
  
• Alec Dankworth
  Alec Dankworth
  Alec Dankworth is an English jazz bassist 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...
  
  
• Art Davis
  Art Davis
  Art Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kenny Davis
  Kenny Davis
  Kenny Davis is an American jazz bassist.Davis released two albums as leader for Soul Note.He was also member of the Blue Note Records group Out of the Blue and has appeared on albums by Gary Bartz, Art Farmer, Don Byron, Eric Person, Michele Rosewoman, Onaje Allan Gumbs and others.Kenny is...
  
  
• Richard Davis
• Chuck Deardorf
  Chuck Deardorf
  Chuck Deardorf, is an American musician, best known for playing double bass and bass guitar with numerous internationally known Jazz musicians....
  
  
• Spanky DeBrest
  Spanky DeBrest
  Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest was an American jazz bassist.DeBrest played with Lee Morgan in his early years in Philadelphia. In 1957 he was a member of Ray Draper's Quintet, Jackie McLean, pianist Mal Waldron, and drummer Ben Dixon.He played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers until 1958, including...
  
  
• Santi Debriano
  Santi Debriano
  Santi Wilson Debriano is a jazz bassist.Debriano was raised in Brooklyn, having moved there with his family at age four. He studied composition at Union College in New York, then attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Wesleyan University...
  
  
• Brandi Disterheft
  Brandi Disterheft
  -Biography:Disterheft grew up in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia where she attended Handsworth Secondary School. Upon graduation, she won scholarship to attend Humber College in Toronto where she studied under Don Thompson....
  
  
• Chuck Domanico
  Chuck Domanico
  Charles Louis Domanico , better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist, playing both acoustic and electric bass on the West Coast jazz scene.Domanico was born in Chicago...
  
  
• Leon Lee Dorsey
  Leon Lee Dorsey
  Leon Lee Dorsey is an American jazz bassist, known for his well-received debut for Landmark Records. He is also Assistant Professor of Jazz Performance at University of Pittsburgh.-As leader:...
  
  
• Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
  
  
• Kermit Driscoll
  Kermit Driscoll
  Kermit Driscoll is a New York City jazz bassist perhaps best known for his long association with guitarist Bill Frisell. He was born in Kearney, Nebraska....
  
  
• Ray Drummond
  Ray Drummond
  Ray Drummond is a jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop...
  
  
• Donald "Duck" Dunn
• Trevor Dunn
  Trevor Dunn
  Trevor Roy Dunn is an American composer, bass guitarist and double bassist.Dunn came to prominence in the 1990s with the experimental band Mr. Bungle. He has since worked in an array of musical styles, notably with singer and Mr...
  
  
• George Duvivier
  George Duvivier
  George Duvivier was an American 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. He also learned composition and scoring before going out on the road with Lucky Millinder and then with the Cab...
  
  
• 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 Leo Smith....
  
  

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• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  
• Jimmy Earl
  Jimmy Earl
  Jimmy Earl is an American jazz musician and composer. He has released two studio albums and recorded extensively. He has toured the world with major artists. He is ranked #22 on the DigitalDreamDoor list of greatest fusion bassists...
  
  
• Cleveland Eaton
  Cleveland Eaton
  Cleveland "Cleve" Eaton is an American jazz double bassist from Fairfield, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. His most famous accomplishments are substantial playing stints with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and later with the Count Basie Orchestra...
  
  
• Kai Eckhardt
  Kai Eckhardt
  Kai Eckhardt is a German musician and composer who plays bass, best known for his work with John McLaughlin, Vital Information, the band he co-founded Garaj Mahal and Billy Cobham...
  
  
• Mark Egan
  Mark Egan
  Mark Egan is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980, and the Gil Evans Orchestra...
  
  
• Julian Euell
  Julian Euell
  Julian Euell is an American jazz bassist.Euell first began playing bass in 1944, and served in the Army from 1945-47. He played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, and Art Taylor in 1947 but quit music from 1949 to 1952, working in a post office...
  
  

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• Charles Fambrough
  Charles Fambrough
  Charles Fambrough was a Jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Fambrough was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s...
  
  
• Addison Farmer
  Addison Farmer
  Addison Farmer was an American jazz bassist. He was the twin brother of Art Farmer.Addison was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He took bass lessons from Fred Zimmermann, and studied at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music...
  
   (1928–1963)
• Malachi Favors
  Malachi Favors
  Malachi Favors was a noted American jazz bassist best known for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hadrien Feraud
  Hadrien Feraud
  Hadrien Feraud is a French Jazz fusion-bassist.-Biography:Feraud was born into a family of musicians. His first guitar lessons were from his father when he was eight years old....
  
   (born 1984)
• Ric Fierabracci
  Ric Fierabracci
  Ric Fierabracci, is an American bass guitarist who has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Frank Gambale, Chick Corea, Sir Tom Jones, Dave Weckl, Bradley Joseph, Shakira, Nancy Sinatra, Planet X, The 5th 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 bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
  
• 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 American jazz double-bassist.- Biography :Franklin played on Hugh Masekela's 1968 number one single, "Grazing in the Grass," as well as with Masekela's band at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967...
  
  
• David Friesen
  David Friesen
  David Friesen is an American jazz bassist born in Tacoma, Washington. Friesen plays the double bass as well as the Oregon bass, which is an electrified acoustic bass....
  
  

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• Larry Gales
  Larry Gales
  Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales was an American jazz double-bassist.Gales began playing bass at age 11, and attended the Manhattan School of Music in the late 1950s. In that decade and the beginning of the next he worked with J.C. Heard, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Mann, Junior...
  
  
• Renaud Garcia-Fons
  Renaud Garcia-Fons
  Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for his customised 5-stringed bass.-Career:Garcia-Fons' father is the painter Pierre Garcia-Fons, and his family is of Catalonian origin...
  
  
• 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.-History:...
  
  
• 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" ....
  
  
• Jimmy Garrison
  Jimmy Garrison
  Jimmy Garrison was an American jazz double bassist born in Miami, Florida. He was best known through his long association with John Coltrane from 1961–1967.-Biography:...
  
  
• Matthew Garrison
• Vivien Garry
  Vivien Garry
  Vivien Garry was a jazz bassist. She led the Vivien Garry Quintet and the Vivien Garry Trio .-References:...
  
  
• Leonard Gaskin
  Leonard Gaskin
  Leonard Gaskin was an American jazz bassist born in New York City.Gaskin played on the early bebop scene at Minton's and Monroe's in New York in the early 1940s...
  
  
• Eddie Gibbs
  Eddie Gibbs
  Eddie Gibbs is an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bassist.Gibbs began his career late in the 1920s, playing with Wilbur Sweatman, Eubie Blake, and Billy Fowler. As a banjoist he was strongly influenced by Elmer Snowden. He played with Edgar Hayes from 1937 and played with him on a tour of...
  
  
• John Giblin
  John Giblin
  John Giblin is an internationally renowned session bassist who has worked with the following artists:*Eric Clapton, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins * Peter Gabriel...
  
  
• Dann Glenn
  Dann Glenn
  Dann Glenn is an American jazz fusion electric bass guitar virtuoso and composer, who has published and recorded a catalog of six symphonies, and released numerous jazz and avant garde albums, over the years....
  
  
• Doc Goldberg
  Doc Goldberg
  Doc Goldberg was a jazz bassist. He played in the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Will Bradley Trio, alongside Freddie Slack on piano and Ray McKinley on drums. Before that, he played in George Hall's orchestra. He also played bass for George Paxton and His Orchestra.Bassist and photographer Milt...
  
  
• Eddie Gomez
  Eddie Gomez
  Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...
  
  
• Coleridge Goode
  Coleridge Goode
  Coleridge George Emerson Goode is a former British Jamaican-born jazz bassist most noteworthy for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a key figure in Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet throughout its eight year existence as a regular unit...
  
  
• Larry Grenadier
  Larry Grenadier
  Larry Grenadier is an American jazz double bassist.His father, Albert, was a trumpet player, and his two brothers, Phil and Steve, would eventually play trumpet and guitar respectively. Grenadier too began on trumpet when he was 10 years old. His father taught him to read music and gave him his...
  
  
• Henry Grimes
  Henry Grimes
  Henry Grimes is a jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet.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...
  
  
• Duke Groner
  Duke Groner
  Edward "Duke" Groner was an American jazz bassist and vocalist.Groner was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma to a musical family, and began on violin as a child but quickly gave it up in favor of piano. He attended Wiley College, where he sang in college music organizations, then joined the band of Nat...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

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• 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
  Robert Sherwood Haggart was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger...
  
  
• Al Hall
• 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.-Beginning career:...
  
  
• Michel Hatzigeorgiou
  Michel Hatzigeorgiou
  Michel Hatzigeorgiou is a Belgian bassist. He was born in Belgium from Greek parents. He started playing bouzouki at the age of 9, then switched to electric guitar at 11 and finally to electric bass at 14. He joined his first band "The Blackbirds" when he was student at Charleroi Technical...
  
  
• Daryl Hayott
  Daryl Hayott
  Daryl Hayott , is an artist and musician who easily plays multiple instruments. He is a drummer, bassist, percussionist, keyboardist and a trumpet player.Though born in Brazil, he was raised in Harlem, New York....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Percy Heath
  Percy Heath
  Percy Heath was an American jazz bassist, brother to tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975...
  
  
• Spike Heatley
  Spike Heatley
  Spike Heatley, born North London, February 17, 1933, is a British jazz bassist.Heatley was with Vic Ash's sextet in 1958, together with Ian Hamer , Johnny Scott , and Alan Branscombe and had then joined The Jazz Couriers some weeks before they disbanded...
  
  
• Mark Helias
  Mark Helias
  Mark Helias is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University's School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University...
  
  
• Jonas Hellborg
  Jonas Hellborg
  Jonas Hellborg is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V. Selvaganesh, Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead....
  
  
• Shifty Henry
  Shifty Henry
  John Willie "Shifty" Henry was an American musician, most noted as a double bass and bass guitar player, and blues songwriter. He also played flute, violin, viola, saxophone, and oboe and was in demand as a session musician and arranger in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s...
  
  
• Milt Hinton
  Milt Hinton
  Milton John "Milt" Hinton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge".-Biography:...
  
  
• Derrick Hodge
  Derrick Hodge
  Derrick Hodge is an American bassist, composer, and music producer. He is also the founder of Son of Knowledge Music and Son of Knowledge Entertainment.- Biography :...
  
  
• Colin Hodgkinson
  Colin Hodgkinson
  Colin Hodgkinson is a British rock, jazz and blues bassist, who has been active since the 1960s.-Career:...
  
  
• Dave Holland
  Dave Holland
  Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
  
  
• Major Holley
  Major Holley
  Major Holley was an American jazz upright bassist.Holley attended the prestigious Cass Technical High School. Holley played violin and tuba when young and started playing bass while serving in the Navy...
  
  
• Scotty Holt
  Scotty Holt
  Scotty Holt is an American jazz bassist. He is known for his work with Jackie McLean for Blue Note Records in the 1960s, on albums such as New and Old Gospel and Hipnosis. He also performed in McLean's quartet, along with Billy Higgins and LaMont Johnson. An example of their work in concert is...
  
  
• Fred Hopkins
  Fred Hopkins
  Fred Hopkins was a Chicago double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement. He was a member of the avant garde jazz trio Air and David Murray's Low Class Conspiracy; he frequently worked with the cellist Diedre Murray...
  
  
• Spike Hughes
  Spike Hughes
  Patrick "Spike" Cairns Hughes was a British jazz musician, composer and music journalist. He was the son of Irish composer, writer and song collector Herbert Hughes...
  
  

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• Peter Ind
  Peter Ind
  Peter Ind is a British jazz double-bassist and record producer.Ind began playing professionally in the late 1940s, including being part of the 'house band' on the ship Queen Mary from 1949 to 1951. He relocated to New York City in 1951, where he played with Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz , Buddy...
  
   (1928 -
• Dennis Irwin
  Dennis Irwin
  Dennis Irwin was an American jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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.-Biography:Born in Creve Coeur, Missouri, Irwin...
  
  
• Chuck Israels
  Chuck Israels
  Charles H. "Chuck" Israels is a composer, arranger, and bassist who is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. He has also worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J. J. Johnson, John Coltrane and many others.-Biography:Chuck Israels was...
  
  
• David Izenzon
  David Izenzon
  David Izenzon was an American jazz double bassist.Izenzon began playing double bass at age twenty-four. He played locally in his hometown of Pittsburgh before moving to New York City in 1961...
  
   (1932–1979)

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• Anthony Jackson
• Chubby Jackson
  Chubby Jackson
  Greig Stewart 'Chubby' Jackson was an American 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 American jazz bass guitarist and composer. He has played with many of the great jazz artists, most notably playing bass on several of Herbie Hancock's seminal albums, Head Hunters, Thrust, and others. He was born in Oakland, California and began playing bass at the age of nine...
  
  
• Tom Jenkinson
• Penn Jillette
  Penn Jillette
  Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, bassist and a best-selling author known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, libertarian philosophy, free-market economics, and scientific skepticism.-Early...
  
  
• Alphonso Johnson
  Alphonso Johnson
  Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson started off as an upright bass player, but switched to the electric bass in his late teens. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, Johnson showed...
  
  
• Bill Johnson (1872–1972)
• Gordon Johnson
  Gordon Johnson (musician)
  Gordon "Gordy" Johnson, is an American double bassist and bass guitarist who has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists, a few of which include Roy Buchanan, Bill Carrothers, Lorie Line, Chuck Mangione, Dewey Redman, Greg Brown, Peter Ostroushko, Paul Winter Consort, Cliff Eberhardt, Maynard...
  
  
• Marc Johnson
• Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
  
  
• Percy Jones
  Percy Jones (musician)
  Percy Jones is a Welsh bass guitarist, and was a member of jazz fusion band Brand X, from 1974 to 1980, and a reformed version which lasted from 1992 to 1997...
  
  
• Sam Jones
  Samuel Jones (musician)
  Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL and moved to New York city in 1955. There, Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...
  
  
• Jesse Boyd
  Jesse Boyd
  Jesse Boyd is an American Jazz bassist, session musician and music educator.- Biography :Jesse Boyd was born in Greenville, North Carolina. Boyd's skills for improvisation had their roots in Church, where his father was a minister. At the age of 12 years, Jesse recorded his first album with his...
  
  

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• Tom Kennedy
• James King
  Jim King (saxophonist)
  Jim King was an original member of the British rock band, Family. He played saxophone and harmonica, and sang occasional lead vocals 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...
  
  
• John Kirby
  John Kirby (musician)
  John Kirby , was a jazz double-bassist who also played trombone and tuba.-Background:Kirby may have been born in Winchester, Virginia, although other sources say he was born in Baltimore, Maryland, orphaned, and adopted. Kirby hit New York at 17, but after his trombone got stolen, he switched to...
  
   (1908–1952)
• Andy Kirk
  Andy Kirk
  Andrew Dewey Kirk was a jazz saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader of the "Twelve Clouds of Joy," popular during the swing era....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Kristin Korb
• Teddy Kotick
  Teddy Kotick
  Teddy Kotick was a jazz bassist 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, Phil Woods and Bill Evans....
  
   (1928–1986)
• 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 Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...
  
  
• Ashley Kozak
  Ashley Kozak
  Ashley Kozak , is a jazz bassist, record producer and artists' manager, best known as having been Donovan's manager....
  
  
• Matt Kendrick
  Matt Kendrick
  Matt Kendrick is a double bassist and composer. Born in Greenville, North Carolina, U.S., he currently lives in Winston-Salem...
  
  
• Mark King
  Mark King (musician)
  Mark King is an English musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band, Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music.-Early life:King was brought up on the Isle of Wight,...
  
  

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• Abraham Laboriel
  Abraham Laboriel
  Abraham Laboriel, Sr. is a Mexican bassist of Garifuna descent 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". Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and of producer, songwriter, and...
  
  
• Scott LaFaro
  Scott LaFaro
  Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz bassist, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bireli Lagrene
  Biréli Lagrène
  Biréli Lagrène is a French guitarist and bassist. He came to prominence in the 1980s for his Django Reinhardt-influenced style on the classical guitar, as well as for being a jazz fusion virtuoso on the electric guitar...
  
  
• Rick Laird
  Rick Laird
  Richard Quentin 'Rick' Laird is a jazz musician, born on 5 February 1941. He is a bass player best known for his place in The Mahavishnu Orchestra....
  
  
• Tim Landers
  Tim Landers
  Timothy Gerard Landers is an American 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)
• Jim Lanigan
  Jim Lanigan
  Jim Lanigan was an American jazz bassist and tubist.Lanigan learned piano and violin as a child, and played piano and drums in the Austin High School Blue Friars before specializing on bass and tuba...
  
   (1902–1983)
• Chris Laurence
  Chris Laurence
  Chris Laurence is an English jazz double bassist born in London, perhaps most noteworthy for his 1980s work in various trios with Tony Oxley ....
  
  
• Jay Leonhart
  Jay Leonhart
  Jay Leonhart is a noted bassist and songwriter working in jazz and popular music. He has performed with diverse artists including Judy Garland, Carly Simon, Bucky Pizzarelli, Sting, and Frank Sinatra...
  
  
• Jennifer Jane Leitham
  Jennifer Jane Leitham
  Jennifer Leitham is an American musician and double bass player. Being left-handed, she has also used the nicknames "Lefty" or "The Southpaw."...
  
  
• 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 American hard bop double bassist.He played or recorded with many prominent jazz musicians, including Cannonball Adderley, Stanley Turrentine, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Harold Land, Jackie McLean, Archie Shepp, and McCoy Tyner.Herbie recorded his last CD Just a Lucky So...
  
  
• Wilbur Little
  Wilbur Little
  Wilbur Little was an African American jazz bassist known for Hard bop and Post-bop. He originally played piano, but switched to bass after serving in the military. In 1949 he moved to Washington, DC where he worked with "Sir" Charles Thompson among others. After that he was in J. J...
  
  
• Joe Long
  Joe Long
  Joe Long is best known as the bass guitarist for The Four Seasons....
  
  
• Orlando "Cachaito" López
• Al Lucas
  Al Lucas (musician)
  Al Lucas was a Canadian jazz double-bassist.Lucas's mother was a concert pianist, and he took lessons from her as a child, eventually switching to bass and tuba at age 12. After moving to New York City, Lucas played with Kaiser Marshall, then joined the Royal Sunset Orchestra, where he played from...
  
  
• Curtis Lundy
  Curtis Lundy
  Curtis Lundy is an American double bass player, composer, producer, choir director and arranger. Lundy is best-known for his work as part of jazz vocalist Betty Carter's band, through whose ranks several eventually renowned musicians have passed....
  
  
• Brian Lawrence
  Brian Lawrence
  Brian Michael Lawrence is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He batted and threw right-handed.-High school:Lawrence attended Carthage High School in Carthage, Texas...
  
  

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• Michael Manring
  Michael Manring
  Michael Manring is an American electric bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area, .-Biography:...
  
  
• Wendell Marshall
  Wendell Marshall
  Wendell Marshall was an American jazz double-bassist.Marshall was Jimmy Blanton's cousin. He studied at Lincoln University, then served in the Army during World War II. Following his discharge, he played with Stuff Smith, then relocated to New York City, where he began playing with Mercer Ellington...
  
  
• Ron Mathewson
  Ron Mathewson
  Ron Mathewson is a Scottish 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 Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Ben Webster, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Eldridge, Oscar...
  
  
• Cecil McBee
  Cecil McBee
  Cecil McBee is an American post bop jazz bassist, 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".-Biography:McBee...
  
  
• Christian McBride
  Christian McBride
  Christian McBride is an American 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)
• Ron McClure
  Ron McClure
  Ron McClure , a bassist, 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...
  
  
• Al McKibbon
  Al McKibbon
  Al McKibbon was an American jazz double bassist, known for his work in bop, hard bop, and Latin jazz.In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J. C. Heard, and Coleman Hawkins, he replaced Ray Brown in Dizzy Gillespie's band, in which he played until 1950...
  
  
• Chucho Merchan
  Chucho Merchan
  Chucho Merchan is a session jazz bassist and guitarist. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University in 1980....
  
  
• Jymie Merritt
  Jymie Merritt
  Jymie Merritt is an American jazz double-bassist.-Biography:Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he has worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, and blues. He has worked with Bull Moose Jackson, B. B...
  
  
• Pierre Michelot
  Pierre Michelot
  Pierre Michelot was a French 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 African jazz 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 an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
  
   (born 1959)
• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
   (1922–1979)
• Red Mitchell
  Red Mitchell
  Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927, New York City - November 8, 1992, Salem, Oregon, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
  
  
• Whitey Mitchell
  Whitey Mitchell
  Gordon "Whitey" Mitchell was an American jazz bassist and television writer/producer. He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey....
  
  
• Charnett Moffett
  Charnett Moffett
  Charnett Moffett is an American 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...
  
  
• Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon is an American jazz bassist.Mondragon was an autodidact on bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the Army during World War II, and then joined Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946...
  
  
• Glen Moore
  Glen Moore
  Glen Moore is a jazz bassist 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. He graduated with a degree in History and Literature from the...
  
  
• Michael Moore
  Michael Moore (bassist)
  Michael Moore is an American jazz bassist.Moore started on bass at age 15, at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, where he performed in various ensembles as well as the Presentation Orchestra in George G. "Smittie" Smith's famed The Withrow Minstrels. He played with his father in nightclubs in...
  
  
• George Morrow
  George Morrow (bassist)
  George Morrow was a jazz bassist.Although most closely associated with Max Roach and Clifford Brown, Morrow also appears on recordings by Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt....
  
  
• George Mraz
  George Mraz
  George Mraz is a jazz bassist and alto saxophonist. He was a member of Oscar Peterson's group, and has worked with Stan Getz, Tommy Flanagan, Chet Baker and many other important jazz musicians...
  
  

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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...
  
   (1900–1957)
• Pino Paladino
• Truck Parham
  Truck Parham
  Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham was an American jazz double-bassist.Parham played professional sports early in his career; he was a boxer and played football with the Chicago Negro All Stars. He played drums before settling on bass, and studied under Walter Page...
  
   (1911–2002)
• William Parker
  William Parker (musician)
  William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography: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. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...
  
  
• Jaco Pastorius
  Jaco Pastorius
  John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....
  
   (1951–1987)
• Johnny Pate
  Johnny Pate
  Johnny Pate is a jazz bassist who late became a music arranger/producer, and a leading figure in Chicago soul as well as pop/R&B music....
  
  
• John Patitucci
  John Patitucci
  John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...
  
  
• Alcide Pavageau
  Alcide Pavageau
  Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau was an American jazz double-bassist.Pavageau started off his career as a guitarist, and sparked a dance craze in his early years which resulted in his "Slow Drag" nickname. He picked up bass in 1927, when he was 39 years old, and played with Buddy Petit, Herb Morand,...
  
  
• Gary Peacock
  Gary Peacock
  Gary Peacock is an American jazz double-bassist.-Biography:After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio , and Albert Ayler's trio...
  
  
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 * Kirk in Copenhagen 1963 * Ben Webster in Denmark 1965-1971 Live at Danish Radio studios, Jazzhus Montmartre and Odd Fellow Palæet - Universal Music Denmark*One Flight Up 1964 *Sunday Walk 1969 - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 (with...
  
   (1946–2005)
• Aladár Pege
  Aladár Pege
  Aladár Pege , was a jazz musician from Hungary. He was well known for his work and was dubbed "the Paganini of double bass"....
  
  
• Gene Perla
  Gene Perla
  Gene Perla is an American jazz bassist.Perla studied piano at the Berklee School of Music and the Boston Conservatory before switching to bass...
  
  
• Oscar Pettiford
  Oscar Pettiford
  Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop.-Biography:...
  
  
• Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....
  
  
• Martin Pizzarelli
  Martin Pizzarelli
  Martin Pizzarelli is a jazz double-bassist who is best known for his work with his brother John Pizzarelli, appearing on many of his albums in a swing trio that includes pianists Ray Kennedy and Larry Fuller. He has recorded one album as bandleader for Victoria Records with Kennedy and his father,...
  
  
• Lonnie Plaxico
  Lonnie Plaxico
  Lonnie Plaxico is an African American jazz bassist.Plaxico was born in Chicago, Illinois into a musical family, and started playing the bass at the age of twelve, turning professional at fourteen...
  
  
• Terry Plumeri
  Terry Plumeri
  Terry Plumeri is an American classical composer, film composer, conductor, double bassist, lecturer, and producer.-Selected discography:* He Who Lives in Many Places...
  
  
• Robert Popwell
  Robert Popwell
  -Career:Known as "Pops", he played with The Young Rascals, The Crusaders and the Macon Rhythm Section. The Young Rascals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame May 6, 1997. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2005...
  
  
• Pino Presti
  Pino Presti
  Pino Presti is an Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer, born in Milan....
  
  
• Jodi Proznick
  Jodi Proznick
  Jodi Proznick is a Canadian jazz bassist born in Vancouver, British Columbia.In 1993, Proznick won the General Motors Award of Excellence as one of the top young musicians in Canada. McGill University awarded Proznick a performance scholarship in 1997 as a member of the prestigious McGill Big Band I...
  
  

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• Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey
  Chuck Rainey, is an American bass guitar session musician, known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts, including Donald Byrd, Steely Dan, Quincy Jones, and Aretha Franklin.-Biography:Rainey's youthful pursuits included violin, piano and trumpet...
  
  
• Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey was an American jazz double bassist.Ramey was born in Austin, Texas, and played trumpet in college, but switched to sousaphone when playing with George Corley's Royal Aces, The Moonlight Serenaders, and Terrence Holder. In 1932 he moved to Kansas City and took up the bass, studying with...
  
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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. Although he plays a jazz pizzicato double bass, he...
  
  
• Rufus Reid
  Rufus Reid
  Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.-Personal history:...
  
  
• Eric Revis
  Eric Revis
  Eric Revis is a jazz bassist and composer. Revis came to prominence as a jazz bassist with the legendary Betty Carter in the mid-1990s and since 1997 has been a solid member of Branford Marsalis's ensemble...
  
  
• Sage Reynolds
  Sage Reynolds
  Double-bassist and composer Sage Reynolds is highly active on the Montréal music scene performing and writing in a variety of musical styles and contexts...
  
  
• Jim Richardson
  Jim Richardson (musician)
  James Anthony Jim "Jimbo" Richardson born 16 February 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
• Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby
  Steve Rodby is an American 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. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon .Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University, a student of Warren Benfield of the...
  
  
• Gabe Rosales
  Gabe Rosales
  Gabe Rosales is a guitarist, singer, bassist rapper, and producer from San Juan Capistrano, California. Rosales has worked in many genres of music, such as Latin music , rock, jazz, drum and bass, fusion, funk, hip hop, jazz rap, and death metal. His album, Vital Nonsense, was released on February...
  
  
• Howard Rumsey
  Howard Rumsey
  Howard Rumsey is a Californian bassist primarily known for his leadership of the Los Angeles group the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.-Life:...
  
  
• Daryl Runswick
  Daryl Runswick
  Daryl Runswick is a classically trained English composer, arranger, musician, producer and educationalist.He started playing bass with leading UK jazz musicians in the mid-60s, including Dick Morrissey and John Dankworth, with whom he would tour and compose for extensively for some 12 years...
  
  
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• Eddie Safranski
  Eddie Safranski
  Eddie Safranski was an American 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.-References:...
  
  
• Patrick Scales
  Patrick Scales
  Patrick Scales in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany is a German electric bass guitar player and teacher.-Biography:Patrick Scales was born in a small town in the Bavarian Alps. As the town was a recreation area for the American army, there were lots of clubs with live music around. Patrick could...
  
  
• Tony Scherr
  Tony Scherr
  Tony Scherr is an American jazz and folk rock bassist, guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer.-Biography:Scherr was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He played with Woody Herman as a teenager, and moved to New York City in the late-1980s, where he became a prolific session musician, working...
  
  
• Lynn Seaton
  Lynn Seaton
  Lynn Seaton is a jazz bassist associated with bebop and swing.He is rarely the lead, with 1991's Bassman's Basement being an exception. He has appeared on several albums, including Nirvana by Bucky Pizzarelli....
  
  
• Karl E. H. Seigfried
  Karl E. H. Seigfried
  Karl E. H. Seigfried is a German-American jazz, rock, and classical bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, writer 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...
  
  
• Alan Silva
  Alan Silva
  Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Arvell Shaw
  Arvell Shaw
  Arvell Shaw was an American jazz double-bassist, best known for his work with Louis Armstrong....
  
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• Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock bassist originally from the San Francisco Bay Area who now lives in Brooklyn, New York.He is best known for playing bass with Ani DiFranco, but he has also led his own group called, "Todd Sickafoose's Blood Orange".Sickafoose has been a member of the...
  
  
• John Simmons
  John Simmons (musician)
  John Simmons was an American jazz bassist.Simmons played trumpet at first, but a sports injury prevented him from continuing on the instrument. He picked up bass instead, landing his first professional gigs a mere four months after starting on the instrument...
  
  
• Andy Simpkins
  Andy Simpkins
  Andy Simpkins was an American jazz bassist.Born Andrew Simpkins in Richmond, Indiana, he first became known as a member of the group The Three Sounds, with which he performed from 1956 to 1968. After that, until 1974, he was a member of pianist George Shearing's group, and from 1979 to 1989 toured...
  
  
• Len Skeat
  Len Skeat
  Len Skeat is an English jazz double-bassist born in east London, perhaps best-known for his work with the Ted Heath band and younger brother of Bill Skeat ....
  
  
• Teddy Smith
  Teddy Smith
  Theodore "Teddy" Smith was an American jazz double-bassist.Smith played with Betty Carter in 1960, and with Clifford Jordan and Kenny Dorham in 1961-62. In 1962-63 he played with Jackie McLean and Slide Hampton...
  
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• Esperanza Spalding
  Esperanza Spalding
  Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions...
  
  
• Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles is a US jazz bassist.Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings Super-Sonic Jazz, Sound of Joy and Deep Purple....
  
  
• Neal Starkey
  Neal Starkey
  Neal Starkey is an American jazz bassist 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. He is a...
  
  
• Leroy "Slam" Stewart
  Slam Stewart
  Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart was an African American jazz bass player whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher. He was originally a violin player before switching to bass at the age of 20.-Biography:Stewart was born in Englewood, New...
  
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• 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 Sam Rivers on the album Violet Violets...
  
  
• Ted Sturgis
  Ted Sturgis
  Ted Sturgis was an American jazz bassist.Sturgis started on piano at age five and played alto saxophone, guitar and drums in addition to bass. He primarily played double-bass, although he played electric bass on some recordings late in life...
  
  
• Ike Sturm
  Ike Sturm
  Ike Sturm is a well known bassist, 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 double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...
  
  

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• Jamaaladeen Tacuma
  Jamaaladeen Tacuma
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• Carl Frederick Tandberg
  Carl Frederick Tandberg
  Carl Frederick Tandberg , was a bass fiddle musician who recorded with Glen Campbell and Frankie Ortega.-Biography:...
  
  
• Billy Taylor
  Billy Taylor (jazz bassist)
  William Taylor Sr. was an American jazz bassist. He was born Washington, D.C. and died in Fairfax, Virginia.Taylor began playing tuba but later picked up bass alongside it...
  
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• Henri Texier
  Henri Texier
  Henri Texier, born , is a French jazz double bassist born in Paris.He is 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...
  
  
• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
  
• Don Thompson
  Don Thompson (musician)
  Donald Winston Thompson, OC is a Canadian jazz musician who plays bass, piano, and vibes. Thompson formed part of the Toronto Quartet of Paul Desmond during the mid seventies, and that effort produced two stellar albums. Other personnel on those dates, mostly at Bourbon Street in Toronto, were...
  
  
• Wayman Tisdale
  Wayman Tisdale
  Wayman Lawrence Tisdale was an American professional basketball player in the NBA and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.-Early life:Tisdale was born in Fort Worth, Texas...
  
   (1964–2009)
• Brian Torff
• Frank Tusa
  Frank Tusa
  Frank Tusa is an American jazz double-bassist, composer,educator.Tusa played guitar before switching to bass at age ten. He worked in a Broadway pit orchestra and then played while serving in the Army. Tusa worked with Paul Bley , Horacee Arnold , and in the Open Sky trio with Dave Liebman and...
  
  

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• Hein Van de Geyn
  Hein Van de Geyn
  Hein Van de Geyn is a jazz bassist, composer and band leader from the Netherlands. He is a critically acclaimed artist and performer, as both as a sideman and solo. Van de Geyn won a North Sea Jazz award in 1998. He was also voted "Best European Acoustic Bass Player" in this year by a referendum...
  
  
• Mads Vinding
  Mads Vinding
  Mads Vinding is a Danish jazz double-bassist.He is a Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen...
  
  
• Leroy Vinnegar
  Leroy Vinnegar
  Leroy Vinnegar was an American jazz bassist.Born in Indianapolis, the self-taught Vinnegar established his reputation in Los Angeles during the 1950s and 1960s. His trademark was the rhythmic "walking" bass line, a steady series of ascending or descending notes, and it brought him the nickname...
  
  
• Miroslav Vitous
  Miroslav Vitouš
  Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš , is a Czech jazz bassist.-Biography:Born in Prague, he began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen. As a young man in Europe, Vitouš was a competitive swimmer. One of his early music groups was the Junior Trio with his...
  
  
• Louis Vola
  Louis Vola
  Louis Vola , was a French double-bassist famous for his work with the Quintette du Hot Club de France....
  
  

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• Wilbur Ware
  Wilbur Ware
  Wilbur Ware was an American jazz double-bassist known for his hard bop percussive style.Born in Chicago, Ware taught himself to play banjo and bass. In the 1940s, he worked with Stuff Smith, Sonny Stitt and Roy Eldridge. In the 1950s, Ware played with Eddie Vinson, Art Blakey, and Buddy DeFranco...
  
  
• Butch Warren
  Butch Warren
  Edward "Butch" Warren is an American jazz double bassist who plays in the hard bop genre. He was especially active in the late-50s and the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman is an American bass player, who has played with a wide variety of musicians including David Grisman, 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,...
  
  
• Doug Watkins
  Doug Watkins
  Douglas Watkins was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.-Biography:An original member of the Jazz Messengers, 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,...
  
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• Hank Wayland
  Hank Wayland
  Hank Frederic Gregson Wayland was an American swing jazz double-bassist....
  
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• Eberhard Weber
  Eberhard Weber
  Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing...
  
  
• Chris White
  Chris White (bassist)
  Chris White is an American jazz bassist.White was an occasional member of Cecil Taylor's band in the 1950s, credited on the 1959 Love for Sale album...
  
  
• Tal Wilkenfeld
  Tal Wilkenfeld
  Tal Wilkenfeld is a bass guitarist who has gained worldwide attention performing alongside some of rock and jazz music's most notable artists...
  
  
• Buster Williams
  Buster Williams
  Charles Anthony Williams is an American jazz bassist.-Biography:Williams has gained prestige among jazz musicians as a solid supportive player. Since the early 1960s, he has made subtle swing, a precise rhythm and superb technique the landmark of his playing...
  
  
• Gary Willis
  Gary Willis
  Gary Willis is an American bassist 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...
  
  
• Quinn Wilson
  Quinn Wilson
  Quinn Brown Wilson was an American jazz bassist and tubist.Wilson played violin as a child, and studied composition and arrangement in his youth. He had his first professional experience in the mid-1920s, playing with Tiny Parham, Walter Barnes, Jelly Roll Morton , Erskine Tate , and Richard M...
  
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• 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 .-Biography:...
  
  
• Jimmy Woode
  Jimmy Woode
  Jimmy Woode was a jazz bassist. His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who played with Hot Lips Page...
  
  
• Victor Lemonte Wooten
  Victor Wooten
  Victor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards....
  
  
• Reggie Workman
  Reggie Workman
  Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  
  
• Eugene Wright
  Eugene Wright
  "The Senator" Eugene Wright is an American jazz 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 Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and saxophonist Paul Desmond.Wright, nicknamed "The Senator", had played...
  
  
• Herman Wright
  Herman Wright
  Herman Wright was a jazz bassist from Detroit, Michigan and later resided in Harlem, New York City until his death.He began on drums as a teen before ultimately settling on upright bass. He worked with Dorothy Ashby, Terry Gibbs, Yusef Lateef, George Shearing, Doug Watkins and on one occasion...