{{short description|American jazz musician}}
'''Sid Weiss''' (April 30, 1914 – March 30, 1994) was an American jazz double-bassist, active principally as a sideman for white jazz musicians in the 1930s and 1940s.
==Early life== Weiss was born in Schenectady, New York, on April 30, 1914.<ref name="Grove" /> "He played violin, clarinet, and tuba before changing to double bass in his teens."<ref name="Grove">{{Citation |date=2003 |chapter=Weiss, Sid |publisher=Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J478400 |title=Oxford Music Online }}</ref>
==Later life and career== Weiss started playing in New York around 1931, working that decade with Louis Prima, Bunny Berigan, Wingy Manone, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, and Adrian Rollini.<ref name="AM">{{cite web |last=Kelsey |first=Chris |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sid-weiss-mn0000470962/biography |title=Sid Weiss |website=AllMusic |accessdate=May 30, 2020}}</ref> He was with Benny Goodman from 1941 to 1945, then played in the second half of the 1940s and the early 1950s with Muggsy Spanier, Pee Wee Russell, Cozy Cole, Bud Freeman, Duke Ellington, and Eddie Condon.<ref name="AM" /> He quit full-time performing after moving to Los Angeles in 1954.<ref name="Grove" /> He died in San Bernardino County, California, on March 29, 1994.<ref name="Grove" />
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==External links== * [https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/106891 Sid Weiss recordings] at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. {{Authority control}}
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