Bassists

The bass, and bassists, may be the most under-appreciated part of any band by the general public.

Jazz bassists play both the Double Bass, an accoustic, stringed instrument which goes by a whole slew of nicknames like bass, string bass, upright bass, standup bass, acoustic bass, contrabass, contrabass violin, bass violin, bass viol, bass fiddle, bull fiddle, dog house bass, and even "coffin" bass.

Bassists also play the electric bass, which, like the electric guitar has pick-up leads from the strings which are amplified electronically.

Bassists, here is the list of all of those pros who have come before you. Click on the purple links (active) to see more about these bass players. Red links? Volunteer to put together the biography of that player!

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Ahmed Abdul-Malik	Osama Afifi	Moses Allen	Vernon Alley
Ben Allison	Hayes Alvis	Arild Andersen	Reid Anderson
James Anton

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Roy Babbington	Victor Bailey	Fred Thelonious Baker	Phil Bates
Joe Benjamin	Max Bennett	Chuck Bergeron	Jeff Berlin
Artie Bernstein	Keter Betts	Charlie Biddle	Jimmy Blanton
Richard Bona	Walter Booker	Jiunie Booth	Jesse Boyd
Nelson Boyd	Ronnie Boykins	Wellman Braud	Brian Bromberg
Harvey Brooks	Alan Broome	Cameron Brown	Steve Brown
Ray Brown	Baron Browne	Jack Bruce	Bunny Brunel
Monty Budwig	Oteil Burbridge	Lennie Bush	"

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Red Callender	James Cammack	Alain Caron	Ron Carter
Malcolm Cecil	Clive Chaman	Paul Chambers	Stanley Clarke
Les Claypool	John Clayton	Jeff Clyne	Greg Cohen
Avishai Cohen	Ira Coleman	Graham Collier	Joe Comfort
Todd Coolman	Curtis Counce	Anthony Cox	Bob Cranshaw
Gary Crosby	Israel Crosby	Bill Crow	Bob Stenglar

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Palle Danielsson	Alec Dankworth	Art Davis	Kenny Davis
Richard Davis	Chuck Deardorf	Spanky DeBrest	Santi Debriano
Brandi Disterheft	Chuck Domanico	Leon Lee Dorsey	Mark Dresser
Kermit Driscoll	Ray Drummond	Donald Duck Dunn	Trevor Dunn
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George Duvivier	Johnny Dyani	"	"

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E[]

Nathan East	Cleveland Eaton	Kai Eckhardt	Mark Egan
Julian Euell

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Charles Fambrough	Addison Farmer	Malachi Favors	Hadrien Feraud
Ric Fierabracci	Arnold Fishkind	Evan Flory-Barnes	Mo Foster
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Pops Foster	Henry Franklin	David Friesen	"

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G[]

Larry Gales	Renaud Garcia-Fons	Juan Garcia-Herreros	Ed Garland
Jimmy Garrison	Matthew Garrison	Vivien Garry	Leonard Gaskin
Eddie Gibbs	John Giblin	Doc Goldberg	Eddie Gomez
Coleridge Goode	Larry Grenadier	Henry Grimes	Duke Groner
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Barry Guy	"	"	"

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H[]

Charlie Haden	Bob Haggart	Al Hall	Stuart Hamm
Michel Hatzigeorgiou	Nick Haywood	Percy Heath	Spike Heatley
Mark Helias	Jonas Hellborg	Shifty Henry	Milt Hinton
Derrick Hodge	Dave Holland	Major Holley	Scotty Holt
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Fred Hopkins	Spike Hughes	"	"

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I[]

Dennis Irwin	Jeff Irwin	Chuck Israels	David Izenzon

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J[]

Anthony Jackson	Chubby Jackson	Paul Jackson	Tom Jenkinson
Penn Jillette	Alphonso Johnson	Bill Johnson	Gordon Johnson
Marc Johnson	Isham Jones	Percy Jones	Samuel Jones

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K[]

Matt Kendrick	Tom Kennedy	Jim King	Mark King
John Kirby	Andy Kirk	Larry Klein	Kristin Korb
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Teddy Kotick	Peter Kowald	Ashley Kozak

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L[]

Abraham Laboriel	Scott LaFaro	Bireli Lagrene	Rick Laird
Tim Landers	Jim Lanigan	Artie Langston	Chris Laurence
Brian Lawrence	Jennifer Jane Leitham	Jay Leonhart	Jack Lesberg
Herbie Lewis	Wilbur Little	Joe Long	Orlando Cachaito López
Al Lucas	Curtis Lundy

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M[]

Michael Manring	Wendell Marshall	Ron Mathewson	Cecil McBee
Christian McBride	Ron McClure	Al McKibbon	Chucho Merchan
Jymie Merritt	Pierre Michelot	Harry Miller	Marcus Miller
Charles Mingus	Red Mitchell	Whitey Mitchell	Charnett Moffett
Grachan Moncur II	Joe Mondragon	Glen Moore	Michael Moore
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George Morrow	George Mraz	"	"

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N[]

Buell Neidlinger

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John Ore

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Walter Page	Pino Paladino	Truck Parham	William Parker
Jaco Pastorius	Johnny Pate	John Patitucci	Alcide Pavageau
Gary Peacock	Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen	Aladár Pege	Gene Perla
Oscar Pettiford	Barre Phillips	Martin Pizzarelli	Lonnie Plaxico
Terry Plumeri	Robert Popwell

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Chuck Rainey	Gene Ramey	Gary Raynor	Rufus Reid
Eric Revis	Sage Reynolds	Jim Richardson	Georg Riedel
Steve Rodby	Gabe Rosales	Howard Rumsey	Daryl Runswick
Curly Russell

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Eddie Safranski	Patrick Scales	Tony Scherr	Lynn Seaton
Clarence Seay	Karl E. H. Seigfried	Avery Sharpe	Arvell Shaw
Todd Sickafoose	Alan Silva	John Simmons	Andy Simpkins
Len Skeat	Teddy Smith	Esperanza Spalding	Victor Sproles
Neal Starkey	Slam Stewart	Ben Street	Ted Sturgis
Ike Sturm	Steve Swallow

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Jamaaladeen Tacuma	Carl Frederick Tandberg	Billy Taylor	Henri Texier
Chris Thomas	Craig Thomas	Danny Thompson	Don Thompson
Wayman Tisdale	Brian Torff	Phil Upchurch

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Hein Van de Geyn	Mads Vinding	Leroy Vinnegar	Miroslav Vitouš
Louis Vola

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Wilbur Ware	Butch Warren	Rob Wasserman	Doug Watkins
Hank Wayland	Eberhard Weber	Chris White	Tal Wilkenfeld
Buster Williams	Jesse Williams	Gary Willis	Quinn Wilson
Chris Wood	Jimmy Woode	Victor Wooten	Reggie Workman
Eugene Wright	Herman Wright

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Y[]

Dave Young	Eldee Young

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Z[]

Stuart Zender

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• Bryan Doherty
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• Buster Williams
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• Carter Fox
• Charles Fambrough
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• Charlie Biddle
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• Christian McBride
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• Christopher Barosky
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• Chuck Bergeron
• Chuck Berghofer
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• Clipper Anderson
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• Colin Dean
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• Court Crawford
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• Ethan Farmer
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• Fernando Huergo
• Francesco Angiuli
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• Franco Casimirri
• Francois Rabbath
• Frank Herzberg
• Frank Moore
• Frantisek Uhlir
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• Fred Randolph
• Gabriel Espinosa
• Gary Peacock
• Gary Short
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• Gemini Soul
• Gene Perla
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• Gianni Luescher
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• Gregg August
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• Johannes Weidenmueller
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• John Brown
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• John H Gray
• John Hébert
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• John K. Dahlman
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• John Kolivas
• John Lamb
• John Lang
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• John Marley
• John Patitucci
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