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Milt Hinton (born Milton John Hinton, June 23, 1910, in Vicksburg, Mississippi; died December 19, 2000, in Queens, New York) was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He grew up in Chicago and studied music at Crane Junior College, worked in the 1930s with bands led by Jabbo Smith, Eddie South and Erskine Tate, and joined Cab Calloway’s orchestra in 1936, touring with it for four years and picking up the nickname “Fump”.<\/p>\n

In the 1940s he worked in the bands of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie, and became one of the busiest bassists in New York studios. In 1954 he joined the CBS studio orchestra as a staff musician, one of the few Black players then holding a network staff chair; over the next two decades his bass appeared on thousands of recordings, from Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington to big bands and pop singers. Fellow musicians called him “The Judge”, because he always seemed to know the right thing to say.<\/p>\n

He was also a photographer of note, carrying a camera on the road to record dressing rooms, hotel lobbies, rehearsals and the daily life of his colleagues, and leaving tens of thousands of negatives. In 1988 he published Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton with David G. Berger. In later years he taught at Baruch College in New York, and in 1993 he received the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award.<\/p>\n

This catalogue adds East Coast Jazz\/5 (1955, Bethlehem BCP 1020) and The Trio (1977, Chiaroscuro CR 188). The first is the fifth volume of Bethlehem’s East Coast Jazz series, produced by Creed Taylor and engineered by Tom Dowd, with clarinettist Tony Scott, pianist Dick Katz and drummer Osie Johnson; its ten tracks range from standards such as “Mean to Me” and “These Foolish Things” to originals such as “Milt to the Hilt” and “Ebony Silhouette”. The second is a trio date brought together by Chiaroscuro producer Hank O’Neal, with Hank Jones on piano and Bobby Rosengarden on drums, nine performances in which his relaxed, exact beat and almost speaking pizzicato carry the melody.<\/p>\n

Cover photograph: Brian McMillen, taken on 26 July 1987 at the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, CC BY-SA 4.0. Body photograph: taken in May 1989 at Otter Crest, Oregon, courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate, CC BY 2.0. Both from Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n

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Milt Hinton on tour at Otter Crest, Oregon, in May 1989. Courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Milt Hinton.jpg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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