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- Winston Churchill, 1874-1955
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Brentwood, Tennessee, USA
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- Love Crimes — Jazz Quartet1992
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2013
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Benjamin Tucker (Brentwood, Tennessee, December 13, 1930 - Savannah, Georgia, June 4, 2013) was an American jazz bassist. He began his career in Nashville, before settling in California, where he played with Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers, among others, and was an participant in the legendary “Jazz of Two Cities” sessions with Warne Marsh By the early 1960's, he was regularly performing and recording with such greats as Herbie Mann, Billy Taylor, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Marian
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Tucker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Nashville
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Tennessee State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- double bass
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- date of birth
- 1930-12-13
- date of death
- 2013-06-13
- cause of death
- traffic collision
- name in native language
- Ben Tucker
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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