Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid

male, 65 years old
Rufus Reid (b. February 10, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in the New York area.
Barry Guy

Barry Guy

male, 62 years old
Barry John Guy (born April 22, 1947) is a British composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary...
Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow

male, 69 years old
Steve Swallow (b. October 4, 1940) is a jazz bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. As a child, Swallow studied piano and...
Marc Johnson

Marc Johnson

male, 56 years old
Marc Johnson, born in Omaha, Nebraska on 21 October 1953, is an American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader. Schooled at University of North...
Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini

male, deceased (1889)
Giovanni Bottesini (December 22, 1821 - July 7, 1889) was a Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.
Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini

male, deceased (1805)
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 - May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and...
Eddie Gomez

Eddie Gomez

male, 65 years old
Edgar "Eddie" Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a Puerto Rican jazz Double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work...
Mark Dresser

Mark Dresser

male, 57 years old
Mark Dresser (b. 1952) is an American virtuoso double bass player and composer. He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new"...
Richard Davis

Richard Davis

male, 79 years old
Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American double bass player who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1977,...
Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton

male, deceased (2000)
Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton (Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 23, 1910; d. Queens, New York, December 19, 2000), "the dean of jazz bass...