- Jazz bassist.
- He is credited with discovering Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall in the early 1990s while seeing her perform in Nanaimmo, British Columbia, Canada.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.
- Holder of a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award.
- With Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra from 1946 to 1951.
- Best known for his tenure with the Modern Jazz Quartet and as a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio for fifteen years..
- Began on piano at the age of eight. Wanted to play trombone but couldn't afford a horn. The school orchestra needed a bass player and had an extra instrument.
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