![]() His original technique permitted him an unprecedented rhythmic variety on his instrument, allowing him to play melodic phrasing instead of conventional, swing-era “walking” metre lines in solos his harmonies, too, were considered advanced for the swing era. His mobile swing and his remarkably full, resonant, pizzicato tones were the band’s foundation. He was a key figure in Ellington’s greatest period. Louis, Blanton played in the Jeter-Pillars and Fate Marable bands, both notable “territory bands” (i.e., those in the South, Southwest, and Midwest), before Ellington hired him in 1939. Jimmy Blanton, byname of James Blanton, (born October 1918, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.-died July 30, 1942, Monrovia, California), American jazz musician whose innovative string bass techniques and concepts, displayed during his two years in the Duke Ellington band, made him by far the major influence on subsequent jazz bassists for several decades.
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