- Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. - Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid (b. February 10, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in the New York area. - Art Davis
Art Davis (born December 5, 1934) is a double-bassist, best known for his work with jazz musicians including John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach. As a busy New York session musician, he recorded with many pop artists and has also worked in classical symphony orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Art Davis is now a professor at Orange Coast College. Davis also holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. - Ron Carter
Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His unique sound and great swing have made him a long sought after studio man — his appearances on over 3,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinniger. He also has a large body of classical recorded work as well. - Danny Thompson
Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English double bass player. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson (no relation) 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, Tom Paxton, Donovan and Kate Bush. For five years, he was a member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, … - Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a leading jazz bassist of the 1950s and 1960s. His importance can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his nearly perfect intonation, time and virtuosic improvisations. - Eddie Gomez
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 done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977. Gomez emigrated with his family at a young age to the United States of America and grew up in New York. He started on double bass in the New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the "New York City High School of Music and Art". - John Clayton
John Clayton, Jr. is a Grammy-winning American jazz and classical double bassist. - Barry Guy
Barry John Guy (born April 22, 1947) 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. He also taught at Guildhall School of Music. Born in London, Guy came to the fore as an improvising bassist as a member of a trio with pianist Howard Riley and drummer Tony Oxley. - Gary Peacock
Gary Peacock (born 12 May 1935 in Burley, Idaho) is an American 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. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio (with Paul Motian), and Albert Ayler's trio with Sunny Murray. There were also some live dates with Miles Davis, as a temporary substitute for Ron Carter. - Mark Dresser
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" 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, Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway, John Zorn, and others. He has made over sixty recordings. He has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer, … - Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton (Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 23, 1910; d. Queens, New York, December 19, 2000), "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist. Milt Hinton is one of the greatest jazz bassists to ever live. He has been nicknamed "The Judge" for his outstanding musical ability. Milt was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on June 23, 1910. He lived in Vicksburg until the age of eleven when he moved to Chicago, Illinois. - Serge Koussevitzky
Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky (Koussevitsky), was a Russian-born conductor, composer, and double-bassist known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949. - Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon (July 1, 1915 - January 29, 1992) was a well-known American blues bassist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. - Renaud Garcia-Fons
Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer, notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for using a customised 5-stringed bass. Garcia-Fons' father is the painter Pierre Garcia-Fons. Yet being of Catalonian origin, Garcia-Fons' affinity for Spanish and oriental culture is understandable. In the early 1980s he enrolled at the Paris Conservatory. François Rabbath taught him his special technique of playing arco. - Barry Green
Barry Green is a U.S. orchestral and solo double bass player and teacher. A contemporary of people such as Gary Karr, he has developed and publicized his own method for double bass. He has published two instructional books, "The Inner Game of Music" and "The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry". - Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a Scottish-born musician, composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bassist, harmonicist and pianist, and was most famous as the vocalist and bassist for the 1960s rock band, Cream. He lives in Suffolk, England. - Red Mitchell
Keith Moore Mitchell (September 20 1927, New York City - November 8 1992, Salem, Oregon), better known as Red Mitchell, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. Red was raised in New Jersey by a father who was an engineer and loved music, and a mother who loved poetry. His first instruments were piano, alto saxophone, and clarinet. Although Cornell University awarded an engineering scholarship to Mitchell, … - Greg Cohen
Greg Cohen is a jazz bassist. 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" album. He has also often played traditional jazz, including work with Ken Peplowski, Kenny Davern and the filmmaker/clarinettist Woody Allen. He has worked with many pop musicians, including Tom Waits, David Byrne, and Elvis Costello. - Eugene Levinson
Mr. Levinson is widely acknowledged to be one of the top 500 bass players in New York City. According to Book 1 of the New Method for Double Bass (Carl Fischer edition), Mr. Eugene Levinson, who was born in Kiev, began to study music at the age of nine. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, later receiving a doctoral degree from this institution. At the age of just twenty-nine, he was the youngest member ever to be appointed to the Leningrad Conservatory's faculty. - Homer Mensch
Homer Mensch (November 14, 1914 in Sussex, New Jersey - December 9, 2005 in Manhattan, New York) was a prominent classical bassist who was a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Pops, and the NBC Symphony. As well, he held faculty positions at Yale University, at the Manhattan School of Music (in both the college and pre-college divisions), the Juilliard School (also in both divisions), the Mannes College of Music, … - Ludwig Streicher
Ludwig Streicher (June 20, 1926 - March 13, 2003), was a contrabassist from Vienna, Austria. Familiar to many as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's contrabass first chair and soloist, he is also known as a self-taught instructor and as the author of a popular contrabass textbook. - Franz Simandl
Franz Simandl (1840 - 1912) was a double-bassist and pedagogue who is remembered most for his "New Method for the Double Bass," 30 Studies, and more advanced collection of studies, "Gradus ad Parnassum". All three of these works are still in use today and are available in a number of competing critical editions. His approach uses the first, second, and fourth fingers of the left hand (actually, … - 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, legendary swing guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He has also appeared on all albums released by John's wife, Jessica Molaskey. - Scott Owen
Scott Bradley Owen (born February 14 1975) plays the double bass in the Australian rock band The Living End. After playing the piano for many years, he decided that the keys would not work for a rockabilly band, so at age 17 he purchased and taught himself double bass, letting him play rockabilly with best friend and band mate, Chris Cheney. During their live shows, Owen is known for pulling his "bass stunts", … - Sting
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October, 1951), universally known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal composer, lead singer and bass player of the rock band The Police. - Lee Rocker
Lee Rocker (born August 3, 1961 in Long Island, New York) is a rockabilly double bass player. He is best known for his time as a member of the The Stray Cats. He is now a solo musician. - Jon Deak
Jon Deak is an American musician and composer. He was born in Hammond, Indiana on April 27, 1943. He grew up in an artistic environment. His father and mother were sculptors and painters; he himself has worked in sculpture. Deak plays bass for the New York Philharmonic, started Young Composing classes all over, and composes many pieces himself. He was born in Indiana, but then moved to New York City to find a job that payed him enough money. - Tony Levin
Tony Levin (born June 6 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an influential American bass player. He has played with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Yes, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, Dire Straits, Joan Armatrading, Alice Cooper, Seal, David Bowie, Deodato, Pandora's Box, Carly Simon, California Guitar Trio, Sarah McLachlan, Kevin Max, The Roches and Paul Simon, among many others. - Chubby Jackson
Greig Stewart 'Chubby' Jackson (October 25 1918 - October 1 2003) 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. Jackson performed and/or recorded with Louis Armstrong, Raymond Scott, Jan Savitt, Henry Busse, Charlie Barnet, Oscar Pettiford, Charlie Ventura, Lionel Hampton, Bill Harris, Woody Herman, Gerry Mulligan and others. - Wilbur Ware
Wilbur Ware (September 8, 1923 - September 9, 1979) was a 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. He is best known for his work with the Thelonious Monk quartet in 1957-58. In 1969, Ware played with Clifford Jordan, Elvin Jones and Sonny Rollins. - Bob Moore
Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and legendary bassist. Moore developed his musical skills as a boy, and by age fifteen he was playing double bass on a tent show tour with a Grand Ole Opry musical group. At age eighteen he excepted a position touring with Little Jimmy Dickens. At age twenty, his abilities brought an offer to play on the famed Red Foley TV show, The Ozark Jubilee. - Arild Andersen
Arild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player. Born in Lillestrøm, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet (1967-1973), with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen. In the same period he also worked with the Norwegian singer Karin Krog and played in the rhythm section for visiting American musicians including Phil Woods, Dexter Gordon, Hampton Hawes, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, and Chick Corea. - Trevor Dunn
Trevor Dunn is an American musician. His primary instrument is bass and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college. Dunn prefers to play simple bass lines in other's compositions choosing to support song structures. - Ryan Monro
Ryan Monro, born in 1981 in Australia is a band member in The Cat Empire. His role in the band is bass guitar, double bass and backing vocal. He studied Jazz at VCA and has been playing bass guitar since the age of 12, and double bass since he was 14. He studied at Frankston High School. Many believe he took a photo of bongos on a skateboard as part of Media Studies, but it is still under debate. - Pops Foster
George Murphy "Pops" Foster (May 19, 1892 - October 29, 1969) was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally. Foster was born to Charley and Annie Foster on a plantation near McCall in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge in south Louisiana. His family moved to New Orleans when he was about ten years of age. - Mads Vinding
Mads Vinding is a Danish 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. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen. He is the holder of an impressive list of engagements with a multitude of famous jazz masters. Mads Vinding has performed all over the world, produced several records, … - Louis Johnson
The Brothers Johnson's bassist, Louis Johnson (born 13 April 1955, in Los Angeles) is regarded as one of the best bassists of the 20th century. His signature sound is from the musicman bass which Leo Fender especially made for him to first use and promote. His work appears on The Brothers Johnson albums and many well-known records by prominent artists. Johnson played on Michael Jackson's albums "Off the Wall" and "Thriller" and George Benson's album "Give Me the Night". - Bill Black
William Patton "Bill" Black, Jr. was an American musician. He is noted for being Elvis Presley's bassist. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and one of nine children, Bill Black played bass ('slapped/rockabilly' upright double) with guitarist Scotty Moore while Elvis Presley played rhythm guitar and sang "That's All Right (Mama)" in a Sun Studios session in Memphis that is considered a seminal event in the history of Rock and Roll. - Jon Thorne
Jon Thorne (born 12 February 1967) is an English double bassist based in Whalley Range, Manchester. Born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire UK he lived in Zimbabwe from the age of 6 to 11. He started playing in his early twenties. He studied and played jazz for a number of years following and considers Danny Thompson his mentor. He has recorded with a wide variety of artists including: Robert Miles, Trilok Gurtu, Robert Fripp, Guy Barker, Iain Ballamy, Badly Drawn Boy, …
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