page_title: List of jazz bassists
section_title: P
hierarchical_section_title: List of jazz bassists / P
caption_attribution_description: English: Pino Presti in Munich in 70s
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.
context_section_description: Walter Page (1900–1957)
  Caterina Palazzi (born 1982)
  Pino Palladino (born 1957)
  Truck Parham (1911–2002)
  William Parker (born 1952)
  Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987)
  Johnny Pate (born 1923)
  John Patitucci (born 1959)
  Mario Pavone (born 1940)
  Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau (1888–1969)
  Gary Peacock (born 1935)
  Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946–2005)
  Aladár Pege (1939–2006)
  Ralph Peña (1927–1969)
  Gene Perla (born 1940)
  Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960)
  Barre Phillips (born 1934)
  Martin Pizzarelli
  Lonnie Plaxico (born 1960)
  Terry Plumeri (1944–2016)
  Robert Popwell (born 1946)
  Tommy Potter (1918–1988)
  Pino Presti (born 1943)
  Rocco Prestia (born 1951)
  Jodi Proznick
caption: Pino Presti has played with Gerry Mulligan, Quincy Jones, Stéphane Grappelli, Astor Piazzolla, Aldemaro Romero
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