Quinn Brown Wilson was an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 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

Tiny Parham

Hartzell Strathdene "Tiny" Parham was a Canadian-born American jazz bandleader and pianist of African-American descent....

, Walter Barnes

Walter Barnes

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, Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton

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 (1927), Erskine Tate

Erskine Tate

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 (1928-1931), and Richard M. Jones

Richard M. Jones

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 (1929). In the 1930s he arranged and played bass with Earl Hines

Earl Hines

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 from 1931 to 1939, in addition to playing bass on record with Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone

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.

In the 1940s he began playing electric bass

Bass guitar

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 and started recording with R&B and blues

Blues

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 musicians, including Lefty Bates

Lefty Bates

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 and John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

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, with whom he played on several albums. He continued to play jazz as well, working with Bill Reinhardt in the 1960s and Joe Kelly

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in the 1970s.