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Bud Brisbois
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Jay Berliner
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Lonnie Liston Smith
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Plas Johnson
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Paul Humphrey
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Cat Anderson
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Bill Mays
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Richard Holmes
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Sam Brown
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Fred Tackett
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Bob Brookmeyer
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Bob Cranshaw
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Cecil Bridgewater
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Frank Strozier
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Steve Swallow
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Joe Sample
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Michael Carvin
Michael Carvin
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Chuck Domanico
American musician

Chuck Domanico

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Charles Louis Domanico (January 20, 1944 – October 17, 2002), better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist who played double bass and bass guitar on the West Coast jazz scene.

Domanico was born in Chicago. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. For nearly forty years, he was a central jazz figure in Hollywood who contributed to many movies and TV programs. Domanico worked with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Carmen McRae, Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal, Diane Schuur, Natalie Cole, and The Manhattan Transfer. He participated in instrumental jazz performances by Chet Baker, Henry Mancini, Shelly Manne, Oliver Nelson, John Klemmer, Roger Kellaway, Barney Kessel, and Art Pepper.

His bass can be heard in themes for television shows like M*A*S*H, Cheers and Frasier, and he contributed to the soundtracks of more than two thousand films.

Domanico died of lung cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 58.