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Blanton, J. Solos, duets, and trios, p1990.
Nash, R. The solo vocabulary of jazz bassist Jimmie Blanton, 1999: p. 5 (b. James H. Blanton Jr., Oct. 5, 1918, Chattanooga, Tenn.) p. 6 (d. July 5, 1942 of tuberculosis, in Calif.; buried in Chattanooga)
African American National Biography, accessed December 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Blanton, Jimmy; James Blanton; bassist, jazz musician; born 18 Nov. 1918 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States; attended Tennessee State College (1934-1937); played with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra and Fate Marable’s Mississippi riverboat bands (1937); was asked by Duke Ellington to join the Ellington orchestra (1939); along with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, contributed to a revitalization of the Ellington orchestra, recording six bass and piano duets with Ellington; played at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem in jam sessions crucial in the development of bop style; regarded as the leading bass player in jazz; died 30 July 1942 in Duarte, California, United States)