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Also Known As contrabass • contrebass • bass viol • bass • bass fiddle • bull fiddle • string bass • kontrebass • Kontrabass • contrebasse

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Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
American musician
Haden, c. 1976
Charlie Haden
American musician
Serge Koussevitzky.
Serge Koussevitzky
American conductor
Milt Hinton
American musician
Mingus, Charles
Charles Mingus
American musician
Walter Page
Walter Page
American musician
Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton
American musician
Giovanni Bottesini
Italian musician
Brown, Ray; Lewis, John; Gillespie, Dizzy
Ray Brown
American musician

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