Sid Weiss

Sidney " Sid " Weiss ( born April 30, 1914 in Schenectady, New York, † 30 March 1994) was an American jazz bassist.

White first learned clarinet, violin and tuba; as a teenager, he moved to bass. By 1931 he moved to New York City and worked in the following decade with Louis Prima, Bunny Berigan, Wingy Manone, Miff Mole, Artie Shaw, Jess Stacy, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet and Adrian Rollini. From 1941 to 1945 he was a member of the Benny Goodman Orchestra; in the second half of the 1940s and in the 1950s he worked with Joe Bushkin, Buck Clayton, Muggsy Spanier, Pee Wee Russell, Cozy Cole, Bud Freeman, Duke Ellington Orchestra ("I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart " 1945), Joe Marsala, Sandy Williams and Eddie Condon. Mid-1950s, he ended his activities as a full time musician.