Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton (born June 23, 1910, Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 19, 2000, Jamaica, Queens, New York) was an American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz. Hinton grew up in Chicago, where he began playing bass in high school and then worked with jazz bands in the early to mid-1930s, most notably with violinist Eddie South....