With a piano and drums, this instrument comprises a standard jazz trio.
A solo for this instrument opens the second track on A Love Supreme. The first track on A Love Supreme has this instrument introduce a recurring four-note motif that transforms into the title chant. A performer of this instrument arranged "Il B.S." from his earlier "Haitian Fight Song." This instrument plays the opening notes of "So What." One of its performers slammed Arkansas's 1957 forced segregation of high schools and paid tribute to the late saxophonist (*) Lester Young on the tracks "Fables of Faubus" and "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." Those tracks appear on an album titled for that performer of this instrument followed by the words Ah Um. With a piano and drums, this instrument comprises a standard jazz trio. Charles Mingus played -- for 10 points -- what lowest-pitched string instrument?
A solo for this instrument opens the second track on A Love Supreme.
double bass [or upright bass; or contrabass]