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| Chicagoan (January 19, 1919 - August 11, 1962) is close to the top of the list of neglected bass virtuosos. John Hammond discovered Crosby while working with Albert Ammons at Chicago's Club de Lisa, and booked him for a recording date with Gene Krupa (the genesis of the jazz classic "Blues For Israel." After working with Fletcher Henderson (1936-8), Crosby moved to Horace Henderson's then-orchestra, Three Sharps and a Flat (1940), Teddy Wilson (1940-2), and, for the rest of the decade as a CBS studio musician. Between 1951-1962, Crosby worked with lightning pianist Ahmad Jamal (with whom he can be heard on Ahmad's Blues), and then spent a few months with George Shearing, before dying of a heart attack.
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