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cellist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Oscar Pettiford		American musician (1922–1960)	United States	1922-09-30	1960-09-08	Okmulgee	Copenhagen	Q497183
Ron Carter		American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer	United States	1937-05-04		Ferndale		Q434593

composer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jan Dismas Zelenka		Czech baroque composer	Kingdom of Bohemia Electorate of Saxony	1679-10-16	1745-12-23	Louňovice pod Blaníkem	Dresden	Q157777
Frantisek Kotzwara		Czech composer and violist		1740s 1750	1791-09-02	Prague	London	Q1355499
Antonio Rosetti		Czech classical era composer and double bass player (1746-1792)	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1746-10-26	1792-06-30	Litoměřice	Ludwigslust	Q604720
Johannes Matthias Sperger		Austrian double bass player and composer	Austria Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1750-05-23 1750-03-23	1812-05-13	Valtice	Ludwigslust	Q387481
Giovanni Bottesini		Italian composer, conductor, and double bass player (1821–1889)	Kingdom of Italy	1821-12-22	1889-07-07	Crema	Parma	Q354101
Victor-Frédéric Verrimst		French composer and double-bassist	France	1825-11-29	1893-01-16	Paris	Houilles	Q19629825
Johann Joseph Abert		German composer, conductor, double-bassist (1832-1915)	Austria-Hungary	1832-09-20	1915-04-01	Hoštka	Stuttgart	Q550772
Antonio Scontrino		Italian composer	Kingdom of Italy	1850-05-17	1922-01-07	Trapani	Florence	Q322256
Goby Eberhardt		German composer (1852–1926)	Germany	1852-03-29	1926-09-13	Frankfurt Hattersheim am Main	Lübeck	Q4529549
Adolf Mišek		Czech composer, contrabassist and choirmaster (1875-1955)	Czechoslovakia	1875-08-29	1955-10-20	Modletín	Prague	Q363422
George Bruns		American composer (1914-1983)	United States	1914-07-03	1983-05-23	Clackamas County	Portland	Q977176
Monica Witni		American composer, pianist, playwright and double bass player	United States	1930-05-06	1982	Fairfax		Q97399884
Jack Six		American jazz musician	United States	1930-07-26	2015-02-24	Danville		Q19624438
François Rabbath		French musician	France	1931-03-12		Aleppo		Q322222
Paul Chambers		American jazz double bassist (1935–1969)	United States	1935-04-22	1969-01-04	Pittsburgh	New York City	Q541659
Henry Grimes		American musician (1935–2020)	United States	1935-11-03	2020-04-15	Philadelphia	East Harlem	Q719759
Chuck Israels		American jazz musician	United States	1936-08-10		New York City		Q727189
Harry Miller		South African jazz double bassist (1941–1983)	South Africa	1941-04-25	1983-12-16	Cape Town		Q1586663
Heinz Karl Gruber		Austrian composer	Austria	1943-01-03		Vienna		Q598959
Gavin Bryars		English composer and double bassist	United Kingdom	1943-01-16		Goole		Q713939
Arild Andersen		Norwegian jazz musician	Norway	1945-10-27 1945-11-27		Strømmen		Q641035
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen		Danish jazz upright bassist (1946–2005)	Kingdom of Denmark	1946-05-27	2005-04-19	Osted	Ishøj Municipality	Q520796
Dave Holland		British jazz musician	United Kingdom	1946-10-01		Wolverhampton		Q504671
Jay Anderson		American jazz double-bassist and studio musician	United States	1955-10-24		Ontario		Q1684301
Riccardo Del Fra		Italian composer	Italy	1956-02-20		Rome		Q1628257
Stefano Scodanibbio		Italian musician	Italy	1956-06-18	2012-01-08	Macerata	Cuernavaca	Q325166
Hein van de Geyn		Dutch jazz bassist	South Africa	1956-07-18		Schijndel		Q1595954
Steve Berry		musical artist		1957-08-24				Q112160928
John Lindberg		American musician	United States	1959-03-16		Royal Oak		Q1700848
Jo Skaansar		Norwegian jazz double bassist	Norway	1984-07-08		Oslo		Q11978644
Linda May Han Oh		Malaysian-Australian jazz bassist and composer	Australia	1984-08-25		Malaysia		Q1825882
Yair Elazar Glotman		German Israeli composer and musician (born 1987)		1987				Q98831670
Daniel Toledo		Ecuadorian bassist and composer	Ecuador	1991-06-11		Quito		Q24830325
Dan Chmielinski		American jazz bassist, synthesist and composer	United States	1993-12-28				Q30661912
Michelle Lou		composer and bassist						Q94691540

conductor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ludwig Schuberth		German composer (1806–1850)	Germany	1806-04-18	1850	Magdeburg	Saint Petersburg	Q4527144
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski		German musician (1822-1896)	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1822-06-17	1896-12-13	Gdańsk	Sondershausen	Q85072
Henryk Jarecki		Polish conductor, composer and music educator (1846-1918)	Russian Empire Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Second Polish Republic	1846-12-06	1918-12-18	Warsaw	Lviv	Q9288250
Jorge Anckermann		Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader (1877-1941)	Cuba	1877-03-22	1941-02-03	Havana	Havana	Q6277653
André Amellér		French composer (1912-1990)	France	1912-01-02	1990-05-14	Arnaville	La Garenne-Colombes	Q516781
Jean Bouchéty		French bassist, composer, and conductor (b. 1920)	France	1920-03-01	2006-07-19	L'Étang-la-Ville	17th arrondissement of Paris	Q3170875
Bohumil Gregor		Czech conductor (1926-2005)	Czech Republic	1926-07-14	2005-11-04	Prague	Prague	Q2908813

double-bassist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Giuseppe Andreoli		milanese contrabassist		1757-07-07	1832-12-20	Milan	Milan	Q21998346
Luigi Negri		Italian double bass virtuoso of the romantic era	Kingdom of Italy	1837	1891			Q13582767
Ernest Lerwile			France	1863-08-04	1944-04-06	Paris	Paris	Q28860051
Claude Hobday		British musician (1872-1954)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1872-05-12	1954-03-10			Q5128891
Cyrus St. Clair		American jazz tubist and double bassist		1890	1955	Cambridge		Q21033723
Ernest "Big" Crawford		American blues double bassist (1897-1956)	United States	1897-07-31	1956-03			Q16750622
Wesley Prince		American Jazz and R&B musician, double bassist	United States	1907-04-08	1980-10-30	Pasadena	Los Angeles	Q21033256
Ernie Newton		bass player (1909-1976)	United States	1909-11-07	1976-10-17	Hartford		Q19666053
Oscar Zimmerman		American double-bassist	United States	1910-09-21	1987-04-02	Philadelphia	Traverse City	Q7106334
Carolyn Utz		American musician, conductor and educator	United States	1913	2005-03-09			Q80225574
Warren Benfield		American musician (1913-2001)	United States	1913-02-12	2001-07-08			Q7970052
Stan Puls		American musician (1916–1998)	United States	1916-01-26	1998-04-20			Q7597838
Chocolate Williams		musical artist	United States	1916-02-01	1984-06-22	Augusta	Manhattan	Q24565999
Carl Pruitt		American jazz and blues double bassist	United States	1918-06-03	1977-06	Birmingham		Q23639355
William Herbert York		American double-bassist (1918–2004)	United States	1918-11-16	2004-08-15			Q8012260
Wilbur Ware		American jazz musician (1923-1979)	United States	1923-09-08	1979-09-09	Chicago	Philadelphia	Q340063
Floyd Chance		American musician	United States	1925-12-21	2005-04-11	Como		Q16016389
Stuart Sankey		American musician (1927–2000)	United States	1927-12-31	2000	Los Angeles		Q7627060
Pierre Michelot		French jazz double bassist (1928–2005)	France	1928-03-03	2005-07-03	Saint-Denis	16th arrondissement of Paris	Q597128
Hideto Kanai		Japanese jazz musician		1931	2011-04-08	Tokyo		Q28870668
Earl Freeman		US jazz double bassist		1931-03-11	1994-07-25			Q123582726
Vernon Martin		American jazz double bassist	United States	1932-01-05	2000-11-10			Q47546758
Frederick D. Tinsley		American classical double bass player (1940-2016)		1940-03-03	2016-09-19			Q27851391
Roger Bush		musical artist		1940-09-16		Hollywood		Q39070497
Jerome Hunter		American jazz double-bassist		1942-01-14				Q30715781
Jean-François Jenny-Clark		French jazz musician; double bass player (1944-1998)	France	1944-07-12	1998-10-06	Toulouse	17th arrondissement of Paris	Q1684832
Rodney Slatford		British musician	United Kingdom	1944-07-18				Q7357071
Barry Green		American musician	United States	1945-04-10				Q4864278
James Leary		musician (1946–2021)	United States	1946-06-04	2021-03-22			Q6137897
Skinny Dennis		American musician (1946–1975)	United States	1946-09-03	1975-03-20		Sunset Beach	Q7535564
Gary King		American jazz bassist (1947–2003)	United States	1947-09-05	2003-07-23	Middletown	Bushkill	Q22005834
Ivan Kotov		Russian Double Bassist		1950-03-24	1985-11-21			Q26997733
Joëlle Léandre		French double bassist, vocalist and composer	France	1951-09-12		Aix-en-Provence		Q536762
Ben Brown		American jazz double-bassist	United States	1952-08-25				Q30609015
Joel Quarrington		Canadian musician	Canada	1955-01-15		Toronto		Q6213861
Sal Cuevas		American musician (1955-2017)	United States	1955-06-16	2017-05-09	Manhattan	Pembroke Pines	Q7403270
Roy Huskey, Jr.		American country musician	United States	1956-12-17	1997-09-06	Nashville	Nashville	Q7372985
Jean-Pierre Robert		French musician	France	1956-12-22		Tours		Q3169713
Hub		American musician	United States	1959-02-12	2021-12-16		Lankenau Medical Center	Q5926621
Sebastian Steinberg		American musician	United States	1959-02-20				Q7442533
Odd Magne Gridseth		Norwegian Trondheim musician	Norway	1959-04-27		Ørsta Municipality		Q17194641
Bruno Destrez		French musician	France	1959-09-13				Q16193071
Michael Benjamin Nigrin		American musician and political activist (born 1960)	United States	1960-10-22		Halifax		Q6828570
Rinat Ibragimov		Russian contrabassist (1960-2020)	Russia	1960-11-05	2020-09	Moscow	London	Q5846421
Leon Bosch		British musician		1961-07-07		Cape Town		Q6524531
Reggie Washington		American jazz musician	United States	1962-07-28		Staten Island		Q35454401
Mark Morton		American double-bassist	United States	1962-09-01				Q6768953
Darek Oleszkiewicz		Polish bassist	Poland	1963-02-20		Wrocław		Q1165809
Jeremy McCoy		canadian-American double bassist (born 1963)		1963-07-13		Toronto		Q41186992
Bruce Ridge		American musician	United States	1964-01-01				Q4978203
Dave Swift		British musician	United Kingdom	1964-01-11		Wolverhampton		Q5229953
Tom V. Ray		American musician	United States	1965				Q7817910
Larry Grenadier		American bassist	United States	1966-02-06		San Francisco		Q930563
Mark Rubin		American composer	United States	1966-08-18		Stillwater		Q22280151
Dennis Crouch		American bassist		1967-01-19				Q30122951
Jon Thorne		Double Bassist/Composer	United Kingdom	1967-02-12		Bishop's Stortford		Q6271683
Tom Götze		German Jazz bassist		1968		Dresden		Q96208563
Tim Lefebvre		musical artist	United States	1968-02-04		Foxborough		Q22278828
Robert Sledge		American musician	United States	1968-03-09				Q7349841
Viktor Krauss		bassist	United States	1969		Champaign		Q7929729
Jon Button		musician	United States	1971-02-10		Fairbanks		Q6270469
David Fletcher		British musician	United Kingdom	1971-12-10	2009-06-29			Q5233694
Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas		American musician	United States	1977-07-25				Q7373186
Benjamin Levy		American musician	United States	1980				Q4888964
Simon Little		British musician	Ireland United Kingdom	1980-09-30				Q7519219
Ryan Monro		Australian musician	Australia	1981-07-26				Q7384353
Caterina Palazzi		Italian bass player	Italy	1982		Rome		Q20007864
Adam Scime		Canadian composer and double bassist (born 1982)		1982				Q33044190
Giuseppe D'Amico		Italian musical artist		1983-06-10				Q131561885
Ben Williams		American jazz musician	United States	1985 1984-12-28		Washington, D.C.		Q816632
Tim Thornton		bass player		1988				Q18637968
Adi Meyerson		Israeli jazz bassist		1991-01-26				Q57585208
Indi Stivín		Czech double-bassist	Czech Republic	2001-12-01		Prague		Q54936082
Dennis Trembly		American musician	United States					Q5259015
Gavin Shoesmith		Australian musician	Australia					Q5528272
Joe Buck		American musician	United States					Q6208835
Scott Pingel		American musician	United States					Q7437064
Jimbo Wallace		American bassist and vocalist						Q17143806
Doug Mathews		American musician						Q125291001
Melissa Carper		American singer						Q126091411

guitarist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Marshall Grant		American musician (1928-2011)	United States	1928-05-05	2011-08-07	Bryson City	Jonesboro	Q1277670
Jim Cregan		English rock guitarist and bassist	United Kingdom	1946-03-09		Yeovil		Q3178768
Michael “Mudcat” Ward		musical artist						Q106541702

jazz bassist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Dominic Duval		American free jazz musician; double-bassist	United States	1945-04-27	2016-07-22	New York City		Q1237564
William Parker		American jazz musician	United States	1952-01-10		New York City		Q2580222

jazz musician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ed Garland		American jazz musician (1895–1980)	United States	1895-01-09	1980-01-22	New Orleans	Los Angeles	Q1282347
Ted Sturgis		American musician	United States	1913-04-25	1995-10-18			Q17125346
Red Callender		(1916-1992) American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew	United States	1916-03-06	1992-03-08	Virginia	Saugus	Q1369875
Ralph Peña		American jazz double bassist and composer (1927–1969)	United States	1927-02-24	1969-05-20	Nevada	Mexico City	Q2129728
Luděk Hulan		Czech composer, jazz musician, contrabassist and singer (1929-1979)	Czechoslovakia	1929-10-11	1979-02-22	Prague	Prague	Q6699550
Tommy Bryant		American musician (1930-1982)	United States	1930-05-21	1982-01-03	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Q2440951
Don Moore		American jazz double-bassist	United States	1932 1938 1937		Philadelphia		Q1239345
Ed Lincoln		Brazilian musician (1932-2012)	Brazil	1932-05-31	2012-07-16	Fortaleza	Rio de Janeiro	Q5335090
Georg Riedel		Czech-Swedish jazz musician; double bass player and composer	Sweden	1934-01-08	2024-02-25	Karlovy Vary	Stockholms Maria Magdalena Stockholm	Q1505766
Selcuk Sun			Turkey	1934-02-20	2016-03-22	Istanbul	Oslo	Q19663263
Barre Phillips		American bassist (1934–2024)	United States	1934-10-27	2024-12-28	San Francisco	Las Cruces	Q327053
Reggie Workman		American double-bassist	United States	1937-06-26		Philadelphia		Q780037
George Mraz		Czech jazz bassist (1944–2021)	Czechoslovakia	1944-09-09	2021-09-16	Písek	Prague	Q1389764
Carl Morten Iversen		Norwegian jazz musician; bass player	Norway	1948-05-01	2023-10-19	Oslo	Oslo	Q1039832
Andy González		American musician (1951–2020)	United States	1951-01-01	2020-04-09	New York City	The Bronx	Q525836
John Clayton		American jazz and classical double bassist, arranger and bigband leader	United States	1952-08-20		Venice		Q253285
Robert Balzar		Czech contrabassist	Czech Republic	1962-05-11		Náchod		Q2156460
Sean Smith		American jazz musician	United States	1965		Cos Cob		Q65428821
Chris Minh Doky		Vietnamese-Danish jazz bassist	Kingdom of Denmark	1969-02-07		Copenhagen		Q723801
Kristin Korb		American musician	United States	1969-10-29		Montana		Q6438148
Christian Weber		Swiss jazz musician	Switzerland	1972		Zurich		Q1082241
Christian McBride		American musician	United States	1972-05-31		Philadelphia		Q732319
Damon Smith		musical artist	United States	1972-10-17		Spokane		Q18224136
Kristor Brødsgaard		Danish double bassist; jazz musician	Kingdom of Denmark	1979		Vedbæk		Q16218383

music educator

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Buell Neidlinger		American jazz musician; cellist and double bassist (1936–2018)	United States	1936-03-02	2018-03-16	New York City	Whidbey Island	Q1001724
Bob Magnusson		American musician	United States	1947-02-24		New York City		Q888083
Robert Black		American bassist (1956–2023)	United States	1956-03-16	2023-06-22	Denver	Hartford	Q7342124
Esperanza Spalding		American jazz bassist and singer	United States	1984-10-18		Portland		Q238705

musician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johnny Williams		American jazz double bassist and tuba player (1908–1998)	United States	1908-03-13	1998-10-23	Memphis	New York City	Q1702434
Bucky Calabrese		American upright bassist		1927-06-08	1995-05-06			Q61868678
Jane Little		double bass player from Atlanta (1929-2016)	United States	1929-02-02	2016-05-15	Atlanta	Atlanta	Q24082552
Rodion Azarkhin		musician (1931–2007)	Soviet Union Russia	1931-03-22	2007-03-26	Kharkiv	Moscow	Q4058176
Pietro Capodieci			Italy	1933-08-28		Rome		Q47491445
Vishnu Wood		American jazz bassist	United States	1937				Q115548281
Jack Gregg		American musician	United States	1938		West Virginia		Q1307952
Steve Gilmore		American musician	United States	1943-01-21		Trenton		Q2346976
David Williams		American jazz musician	United States	1946-09-17		Trinidad		Q1177205
Joe Sanders		American bassist	United States	1984		Milwaukee		Q17123817
Cello Dias		Brazilian bassist	Brazil			São Paulo		Q4161067
Kim Changhyun		South Korean jazz bassist						Q123298871

singer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Willi Tokarev		Russian and former expatriate Russian-American singer	Soviet Union United States Russia	1934-11-11	2019-08-04	Chernyshyov	Moscow	Q4459467
Miranda Sykes		English folk singer	United Kingdom	1978		Spalding		Q63363966

Misc

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Mécène Marié de l'Isle		French opera singer	France	1811-05-22	1879-08-14	Château-Chinon (Ville)	Compiègne	Q2976788
Alfred Planyavsky		Austrian classical musician	Austria	1924-01-22	2013-06-18	Vienna	Vienna	Q4723295
Franco Cerri		Italian musician (1926–2021)	Italy	1926-01-29	2021-10-18	Milan	Milan	Q1442560
Whitey Mitchell		American jazz bassist and TV writer/producer (1932–2009)	United States	1932-02-22	2009-01-17	Hackensack	Palm Springs	Q2567133
Tom Gray		American bluegrass musician, double bass player	United States	1941-02-01		Chicago		Q7815993
Adelhard Roidinger		Austrian bassist	Austria	1941-11-28	2022-04-22	Windischgarsten		Q29034908
John Ray Webster		American checkers champion		1942-03-31		Stoneville		Q88981551
Ron Halldorson		Canadian musician and music producer		1943				Q115933355
Palle Danielsson		Swedish jazz musician; double bassist and composer (1946–2024)	Sweden	1946-10-15	2024-05-18	Stockholm		Q1369090
Wolfgang Fernow		German double bassist and composer	Germany	1952-02-03	2022-05-17	Freiburg im Breisgau		Q55434176
Amy LaVere		American musician	United States	20th century		Shreveport		Q1840763
Alyn Shipton		writer, broadcaster and "Times" jazz critic	United Kingdom	1953-11-24		Guildford		Q450282
Mark Schatz		American musician and record producer	United States	1955-04-23				Q6769614
Sergey Shnurov		Russian musician	Soviet Union Russia	1973-04-13		Saint Petersburg		Q921496
Mathias Eick		Norwegian musician (1979-)	Norway	1979-06-26		Furnes		Q464785

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