Albert Stinson

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Albert Stinson (August 2, 1944, Cleveland, Ohio - June 1969) was an American jazz double-bassist.

Stinson learned to play piano, trombone, and tuba before settling on bass at age 14. He began playing professionally in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, working with Terry Gibbs, Frank Rosolino, Chico Hamilton, and Charles Lloyd (1965). Later in the decade he worked with Larry Coryell, John Handy (1967), and Bobby Hutcherson (1967).

Stinson died on tour of a drug overdose in 1969 at the age of 24. He never recorded as a leader but appears on Hamilton's Impulse! releases, Hutcherson's Blue Note release Oblique, and Handy's Koch Records release New View!.

[edit] References

• Albert Stinson at All Music Guide