Lonnie Plaxico
Bassist
Bassist and member of the Wynton Marsalis Group in the 1980s and winner of the 1978 Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.
He started playing bass at the age of twelve and went on to record two years later; he moved to New York City when he was twenty years old.
He became a member of the M-Base Collective in the mid-1980s.
He grew up in Chicago, raised by a musical family.
He has collaborated with an array of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie.