page_title: List of jazz bassists
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hierarchical_section_title: List of jazz bassists / S
caption_attribution_description: English: Jon Rune Strøm playing in Paal Nilssen Loves band Large Unit in Aarhus Denmark 2015
context_page_description: This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players.
  The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton; Oscar Pettiford, who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link from the swing era to bebop. Ray Brown, known for backing a number of beboppers, including alto virtuoso Charlie Parker; Milt Hinton and George Duvivier who are the two most recorded bassists in jazz history, their respective careers spanning many eras and genres; a singular creative force was Wilbur Ware legendary bassist with Monk and others, hard bop bassist Ron Carter; and Paul Chambers, a member of the Miles Davis Quintet.
  In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus and free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden.
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  Igor Saavedra (born 1966)
  Eddie Safranski (1918–1974)
  Ole Marius Sandberg (born 1975)
  Fernando Saunders (born 1957)
  Tony Saunders
  Patrick Scales (born 1965)
  Tony Scherr
  Lynn Seaton (born 1957)
  Clarence Seay (born 1957)
  Karl E. H. Seigfried (born 1973)
  Pat Senatore (born 1935)
  Avery Sharpe (born 1954)
  Arvell Shaw (1923–2002)
  Todd Sickafoose
  Alan Silva (born 1939)
  John Simmons (1918–1979)
  Andy Simpkins (1932–1999)
  Len Skeat (born 1937)
  Audun Skorgen (born 1967)
  Baard Slagsvold (born 1963)
  Carson Smith (1931–1997)
  Putter Smith (born 1941)
  Rhonda Smith
  Teddy Smith (1932–1979)
  Esperanza Spalding (born 1984)
  Victor Sproles (born 1927)
  Neal Starkey
  Leroy "Slam" Stewart (1914–1987)
  Øyvind Storesund (born 1975)
  Ben Street
  Jon Rune Strøm (born 1965)
  Ted Sturgis
  Ike Sturm (born 1978)
  Christian Meaas Svendsen (born 1988)
  Neil Swainson (born 1955)
  Steve Swallow (born 1940)
caption: Jon Rune Strøm with Paal Nilssen-Love at Large Unit in 2015. Strøm is known from collaborations with the likes of Kjersti Stubø and Frode Gjerstad.
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