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Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960 Okmulgee, OK)was an American jazz double bassist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom.

Jazz bassist Christian McBride called Pettiford “probably the most important bass player of that bebop generation in terms of creating new language for the bass. Pettiford died in 1960 in Copenhagen, shortly before his 38th birthday, from a virus closely related to polio.