HINTON, MILTON J

HINTON, MILTON J. (MILT). Jazz bassist (23 June 1910 in Vicksburg, Mississippi). His mother was a church organist, and he was immersed in church musical activities from earliest childhood. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, where he came under the tutelage of N.Clark Smith at Wendell Phillips High School. He began piano study with his mother. When he was thirteen he began violin study...