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BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Jimmy Blanton |
 | | In his short life, Jimmy Blanton transformed the role of the double bass in jazz, proving that this big, cumbersome instrument could have the same lightness and flexibility as a trumpet or saxophone. |
| | Blanton was also a member of many of Ellington's studio small group sessions. |
| | He was stricken by tuberculosis during the band's West Coast visit in 1941, and died in hospital in California. |
| www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/jimmy_blanton.shtml (241 words) |
