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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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Mingus, Charles
Charles Mingus
American musician
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
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Haden, c. 1976
Charlie Haden
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Serge Koussevitzky.
Serge Koussevitzky
American conductor
Milt Hinton
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
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