Bassist
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A bassist is a musician who plays a bass guitar or double bass.This page lists famous bassists in four categories, depending on whether they are primarily known for playing bass guitar, double bass, both, or their main instrument is unknown. Certain musical genres tend to use one or the other (for example, bass guitar for rock and roll or pop music but double bass for classical music and jazz) but the rule is not hard and fast.
The lists are organised alphabetical order (by surname) and brief mention may be made of their specific contribution or famous groups they have worked with.
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Bass guitar
There have been a great many players of the electric bass guitar in jazz, rock and roll, and pop genres. Over 150 bassists are described on Wikipedia, including such widely influential artists as Jaco Pastorius and James Jamerson. As this list of names is so long, it has been broken into alphabetical sections and stored as the list of bass guitarists.
Double bass
- Wellman Braud
- Ray Brown
- Ron Carter
- Patricia Day, from HorrorPops
- Mark Dresser
- Pops Foster
- Milt Hinton
- Bill Johnson
- Gary Karr
- Christian McBride
- Edgar Meyer
- Charles Mingus
- Bob Moore
- Slam Stewart
- Danny Thompson from Pentangle
See also: Double bass
Bass guitar and double bass
Unknown
- Kelly Grouchet from Electric Light Orchestra
- Olivier Moret, Etienne Roumanet, Xavier Lugue, Yves Torchinsky, Christian Gentet, Jean-Philippe Viret from L'Orchestre de Contrebasses