Real name: Quinn Brown Wilson.

American jazz bassist and tuba player.
Born : December 26, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois.
Died : June 14, 1978 in Evanston, Illinois.

Quinn played with : Tiny Parham, Walter Barnes, Jelly Roll Morton (1927), Erskine Tate (1928-'31), Richard M. Jones (1929), Earl Hines (1931-1939).
In the 1940s he began playing electric bass and started recording R&B and blues musicians, including : Lefty Bates and John Lee Hooker.