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Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton
Photo: Courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson · CC BY 2.0

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Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge". Hinton was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he resided until age eleven when he moved to Chicago, Illinois. He attended Wendell Phillips High School and Crane Junior College. While attending these schools, he learned first to play the violin, and later bass horn, tuba, cello and the double bass.

Top songs

  1. A Night In Tunisia: Hot Mallets
  2. Look Out Jack
  3. Old Man Time
  4. Prelude To A Kiss
  5. Hot Mallets
  6. Mean To Me
  7. Slap Happy
  8. Milt to the hilt
  9. Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho
  10. Summertime
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  1. Don't blame me
  2. I Know That You Know
  3. Over the rainbow
  4. Joshua
  5. Me And You
  6. Mona's Feeling Lonely
  7. How High The Moon
  8. Upstairs with Milt
  9. Ebony Silhouette
  10. Milt's Rap
  11. Undecided
  12. Right Here, Right Now
  13. Time After Time
  14. Back Home Again In Indiana
  15. Honey
  16. Pick 'n' Pat
  17. Now's The Time
  18. Cantus firmus
  19. Mona Is Feeling Lonely
  20. These foolish things
  21. Jumping At The Woodside
  22. Walking Through The Woodyard
  23. Toneing Down
  24. Rosetta
  25. Russian Lullaby
  26. Deep Night
  27. A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  28. Laughing At Life
  29. Raincheck
  30. Katz' Meow
  31. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
  32. Four or Five Times
  33. Wade In The Water
  34. Hindustan
  35. Blue Skies
  36. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
  37. Mama Don't Allow It
  38. Fascinating Rhythm
  39. Shine
  40. Sometimes I'm Happy
  41. New Orleans
  42. Time on My Hands
  43. Bloody Mary
  44. As Long As I Live
  45. A Time For Love
  46. Katz's Meow (a Canon for Cats)
  47. Johnny Comes Lately
  48. Order in the Court
  49. Heart of My Heart
  50. Girl of My Dreams
  51. It Don'T Mean A Thing If It Ain'T Got That Swing
  52. Blessed Assurance
  53. What Am I Here For?
  54. Night And Day
  55. Travelin' All Alone
  56. Katz' meow (A canon for cats)
  57. Love Me Or Leave Me
  58. Good Time Charlie
  59. What Am I Here For'
  60. The Yellow Front
  61. Body and Soul
  62. Mama Don'T Allow
  63. A Hot Time In The Told Town Tonight
  64. Coffee Dan
  65. Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Milt Hinton's Survivors)
  66. Pick 'n Pat
  67. Jumpin' at the Woodside
  68. Tam
  69. Mamma Don't Allow It
  70. Georgia on My Mind
  71. what am I here for
  72. The Walls Fall
  73. This Time Its Us
  74. Jazzspeak #1
  75. H.O.T. (Helen Of Troy)
  76. This Time It's Us
  77. Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
  78. Pink 'N Pat
  79. What's New
  80. Sweet Georgia Brown
  81. Just Friends
  82. Shoes On The Ruff
  83. A child is born
  84. The Love Nest
  85. The Judge And The Jury
  86. Jazzspeak #2
  87. Ocho Puertas
  88. Late In The Evening
  89. Queen of Hearts
  90. Old man harlem

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