Joe Comfort

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This article is about a jazz bassist. For the homeless person in New Haven, Connecticut, see Joe Comfort (New Haven).

Joe Comfort (July 18, 1917 - October 29, 1988) was an American jazz bassist. Comfort, from a musically oriented Los Angeles family, taught himself bass and began performing with Lionel Hampton's orchestra in the late 1920s, and later began performing with Nat King Cole in a partnership that would continue until the early 1950s. Comfort participated in numerous studio dates in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with such luminaries as Sammy Davis, Jr., Benny Carter and Nancy Wilson.[1]

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