 Charles Mingus - Bi Centenial, Lower Manhattan July 4, 1976 Image by Charles_Mingus_1976.jpg: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA
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Safranski Eddie TrioList of jazz bassists List of jazz bassists This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players. Jazz bassist Charles Mingus was also an influential bandleader and composer whose musical interests spanned from bebop to free jazz. Ron Carter, 2008. He is the most-recorded bassist in jazz history, with appearances on over 2,200 albums.[1] The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington band); Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link… (Source: Wikipedia)
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