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Lefty Bates
Lefty Bates
American Chicago blues guitarist
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Hayes Alvis
Hayes Alvis
musician
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Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
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Cozy Cole
Cozy Cole
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Omer Simeon
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Budd Johnson
Budd Johnson
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Eddie Taylor
Eddie Taylor
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Panama Francis
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Leroy Vinnegar
Leroy Vinnegar
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Bennie Green
Bennie Green
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Bill Lee
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Wallace Bishop
Wallace Bishop
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Earl Hines
Earl Hines
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Vernel Fournier
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Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton
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Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker
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Billy "The Kid" Emerson
Billy "The Kid" Emerson
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Zue Robertson
Zue Robertson
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Ralph Bass
Ralph Bass
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Alan Wilson
Alan Wilson
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Shadow Wilson
Shadow Wilson
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Jay McShann
Jay McShann
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Lawrence Lucie
Lawrence Lucie
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Bob Cranshaw
Bob Cranshaw
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Plas Johnson
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James Dapogny
James Dapogny
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Earl Palmer
Earl Palmer
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Calvin Newborn
Calvin Newborn
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Tiny Grimes
Tiny Grimes
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Albert Nicholas
Albert Nicholas
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Haywood Henry
Haywood Henry
American jazz baritone saxophonist
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Larry Taylor
Larry Taylor
American musician
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Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb
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Earl May
Earl May
American musician
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Canned Heat
Canned Heat
American rock band
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James Bracken
James Bracken
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
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Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
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Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
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Johnny Dunn
Johnny Dunn
American traditional jazz trumpeter and vaudeville performer
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Walter Perkins
Walter Perkins
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
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Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson
jazz vocalist and actor (1926-2016)
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George Mitchell
George Mitchell
jazz musician
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Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Russell Procope
Russell Procope
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John Lindsay
John Lindsay
American jazz musician
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Oliver Jackson
Oliver Jackson
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Quinn Wilson
American jazz bassist and tubist (1906-1978)

Quinn Wilson

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American jazz bassist and tubist (1906-1978)
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Quinn Brown Wilson (December 26, 1908 – June 14, 1978) was an American jazz bassist and tubist.

Wilson played violin as a child, and studied composition and arrangement in his youth. He had his first professional experience in the mid-1920s, playing with Tiny Parham, Walter Barnes, Jelly Roll Morton (1927), Erskine Tate (1928-1931), and Richard M. Jones (1929). In the 1930s he arranged and played bass with Earl Hines from 1931 to 1939, in addition to playing bass on record with Jimmie Noone.

In the 1940s he began playing electric bass and started recording with R&B and blues musicians, including Lefty Bates and John Lee Hooker, with whom he played on several albums. He continued to play jazz as well, working with Bill Reinhardt in the 1960s and Joe Kelly in the 1970s.