List of jazz bassists
From Freepedia
Noted jazz musicians who play string bass, electric bass, or both.
- Ben Allison
- Reid Anderson
- Don Bagley
- John Benitez
- Chuck Berghofer
- Jeff Berlin
- Keter Betts
- Charles Biddle
- Jimmy Blanton
- Wellman Braud, (1891-1966)
- Brian Bromberg
- Ray Brown
- Steve Brown
- Whit Browne
- Monty Budwig
- Alain Caron
- Ron Carter, (born 1937)
- Paul Chambers
- Stanley Clarke
- John Clayton
- Avishai Cohen
- Greg Cohen
- Scott Colley
- Todd Coolman
- Bill Crow
- Chris Dahlgren
- Palle Danielsson
- Ruth Davies
- Dr. Art Davis
- Richard Davis
- Chuck Domanico
- Mark Dresser
- Kermit Driscoll
- Ray Drummond
- George Duvivier
- Mark Egan
- Charles Fambrough
- Yves Fernandez
- Pops Foster
- Henry Franklin
- David Friesen
- Sylvain Gagnon
- Jimmy Garrison
- Bruce Gertz
- Eddie Gomez
- Dan Greenspan
- Larry Grenadier
- Drew Gress
- Roland Guerin
- Charlie Haden
- Bob Haggard
- Stuart Hamm
- Percy Heath
- Mark Helias
- Milt Hinton
- Dave Holland
- Robert Hurst
- Dieter Ilg
- Chuck Israels
- Chubby Jackson
- Bill Johnson, (1872-1972)
- Marc Johnson
- Eddie Jones
- Kyle Jones (1955- )
- Sam Jones
- John Kirby
- Teddy Kotick
- Scott LaFaro
- Steve LaSpina
- Jay Leonhart
- John Lockwood
- Curtis Lundy
- Michael Manring
- Cecil McBee
- Christian McBride
- Al McKibbon
- Mary Ann McSweeney
- Marcus Miller (1959- )
- Charles Mingus, (1922-1979)
- Red Mitchell
- Charnett Moffett
- Joe Mondragon
- Glen Moore
- Michael Moore
- Al Morgan
- Wilber Morris
- George Morrow
- George Mraz
- Bob Nieske
- Ugonna Okegwo
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, (1946-2005)
- Walter Page
- William Parker
- Jaco Pastorius, (1951-1987)
- John Patitucci
- Gary Peacock
- Aladar Pege
- Oscar Pettiford
- Barre Phillips
- Tommy Potter
- Tomaas Proitsis
- Rufus Reid
- Eric Revis
- Steve Rodby
- Curly Russell
- Tony Scherr
- Ed Schuller
- Lynn Seaton
- Avery Sharpe
- Arvell Shaw
- Todd Sickafoose
- Andy Simpkins
- Carson Smith
- Albert Stinson
- Ben Street
- Steve Swallow
- Harvie Swartz
- Stomu Takeishi
- Henri Texier
- Wayman Tisdale
- Mark Tourian
- Hein Van de Geyn
- Reginald Veal
- Gerald Veasley
- Mads Vinding
- Leroy Vinnegar
- Miroslav Vitouš
- Wilbur Ware
- Peter Washington
- Rob Wasserman
- Eberhard Weber
- Rodney Whitaker
- Jerry Wilfong
- Buster Williams
- Gary Willis
- Ben Wolfe
- Chris Wood
- Marshall Wood
- Jimmy Woode
- Victor Lemonte Wooten
- Reggie Workman
- Eugene Wright
- Dave Young
- Mark Zubek
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