{"type": "root", "children": [{"type": "paragraph", "children": [{"type": "text", "value": "Lonnie Plaxico is a Chicago-born virtuoso bassist and bandleader who has anchored more than a hundred recordings across modern jazz, avant-garde, and soul. After moving to New York at twenty, he won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award and joined the bands of Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers."}]}, {"type": "paragraph", "children": [{"type": "text", "value": "In 1986 he became a founding pillar of the M-Base Collective alongside Steve Coleman, Greg Osby, and Cassandra Wilson, serving as Cassandra Wilson's musical director and first-call bassist throughout the 1990s and 2000s while releasing fourteen albums as a leader."}]}]}
