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Quartet from 1960 to 1961. In 1960, Davis was briefly part of the John Coltrane Quartet, before being replaced temporarily by

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and permanently by Jimmy Garrison Davis recorded '' My Favorite Things'' (1961) with the quartet. He also recorded as a sideman with

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and

Gap Mangione Gaspare Charles "Gap" Mangione (born July 31, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Rochester, New York. He is the brother of Chuck Mangione. Career In 1958, Mangione and his brother started performing together as the Mangione Brothers Sextet/Quintet. Fro ...

on ''Hey Baby!'' (1961), and with quartet fellow (and brother-in-law)

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on the 1963 album '' Nights of Ballads & Blues''.

Discography

With

*'' My Favorite Things'' (

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, 1961) *''

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'' (Atlantic, 1961) *''

Coltrane Plays the Blues ''Coltrane Plays the Blues'' is an album of music by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in July 1962 on Atlantic Records. It was recorded at Atlantic Studios during the sessions for '' My Favorite Things'', assembled after Coltrane had stopped ...

'' (Atlantic, 1962) *''

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'' (Atlantic, 1964) With Kenny Dorham *''The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963'' ( Uptown, 2009) With

Eddie Jefferson Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims t ...

*''Body and Soul'' (

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, 1968) With

Freddie McCoy Freddie McCoy (November 29, 1932 – September 27, 2009) was an American soul jazz vibraphonist. McCoy started out with Johnny "Hammond" Smith in 1961, and released seven albums for Prestige Records plus one in 1971 for the short-lived Cobbleston ...

*'' Spider Man'' (Prestige, 1965) *''

Peas 'n' Rice ''Peas 'n' Rice'' is the fourth album by American jazz vibraphonist Freddie McCoy which was recorded in 1967 (with one track from a session in 1965) for the Prestige label.James Moody *'' Cookin' the Blues'' ( Argo, 1961) With The Jazz Brothers Featuring

and

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*'' Hey Baby!'' ( Riverside, 1961) With

*'' Nights of Ballads & Blues'' (

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, 1963)

References

Leonard Feather Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing. Biography Feather was born in London, England, into an u ...

Ira Gitler Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'' with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of ...

, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.'' Oxford/New York 1999;

Notes

1929 births 1987 deaths Jazz bass guitarists Place of birth missing 20th-century American bass guitarists 20th-century double-bassists {{Double-bassist-stub