Meet some of the people featured in KEEPING TIME: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton.

Amiri Baraka Baraka is an author, educator and cultural critic whose work focuses on the African American experience.

Ray Brown Brown was a legendary jazz bassist, composer and bandleader who first met Milt Hinton in the mid-1940s and remained a close friend for 60 years.

Ron Carter Carter, an innovative jazz bassist, composer and bandleader, met Hinton in the early 1960s and maintained a friendship with him for 40 years.

Doc Cheatham Cheatham was a legendary jazz trumpeter who first met Hinton in Cab Calloway’s Orchestra in the 1930s and remained his friend for the next six decades.

Bill Crow Crow is a jazz bassist and author who writes about jazz musicians and jazz music.

Richard Davis Davis is a jazz bassist who first met Milt Hinton in the early 1960s, followed him into the New York studios and eventually became a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Jon Faddis Faddis is a noted jazz trumpeter, bandleader and educator who first met Hinton employed on a recording session early in his career.

Eddie Gomez Gomez is a noted jazz bassist who first met Hinton as a teenager and was influenced by him professionally.

Nat Hentoff Hentoff is a cultural critic, author, and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and Jazz Times.

Gregory Hines Hines was an actor and dancer who grew up in the jazz community and had known Hinton since childhood.

Mona Hinton Hinton’s wife of 60 years traveled with him during the Cab Calloway years and later managed his career.

Dick Hyman Hyman is a pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and producer who has authored and supervised music for most of Woody Allenšs films.

Quincy Jones Jones is a composer, arranger, and producer with countless awards for his jazz, pop and film work. Hinton appears on dozens of his early jazz and popular music records.

Christian McBride McBride is a jazz bassist and composer and director of the Dave Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific. He first met Hinton when he took a class with him in Philadelphia at age 14.

Branford Marsalis Marsalis is a saxophonist, bandleader and composer and the former leader of the Jay Leno Show band. He first met Hinton in New Orleans during his student years.

Dan Morgenstern Morgenstern is the director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and a noted jazz historian and author.

Halima Taha Taha is a art curator and consultant who specializes in African American art and has published a book on art collecting.

George Wein Wein is a festival and concert producer who is responsible for the Newport, JVC, Playboy Jazz Festivals and many others around the world.

Richard B. Woodward Woodward is a author and documentary filmmaker who writes about the arts, and especially photography, and has made films about photographic curator John Szarkowski and poet Billy Collins.

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