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Lloyd Trotman (May 25, 1923 – October 3, 2007), born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, was an American jazz bassist, who backed numerous jazz, dixieland, R&B, and rock and roll artists in the 1950s and 1960s. He resided in Huntington, Long Island, New York 1962-2007 and Corona-East Elmhurst, New York 1945-1962. He worked primarily out of New York City. He provided the bass line on Ben E. King's "Stand by Me".Trotman began playing the club scene (52nd St.) in New York in the late 1940s. One of his earliest recording sessions was on Duke Ellington's 1950 album Great Times! Piano Duets with Billy Strayhorn. Throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s he backed a wide variety of artists, including R&B artists such as Varetta Dillard, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Al Hibbler, Big Joe Turner, Nappy Brown, Linda Hopkins, Mickey "Guitar" Baker, Chuck Willis, Ben E. King, The Drifters ("Save The Last Dance For Me"), Sam Cooke and Pat Thomas;The Platters;Everly Brothers; Screamin' Jay Hawkins; Clyde McPhatter: Joe Hunter'>Ivory Joe Hunter;[1] and doo-wop groups such as The Roamers, The Dreams, and The Coasters. He worked with jazz artists such as Johnny Hodges, Woody Herman, Lawrence Brown, Bud Powell, Henry "Red" Allen, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Scott, Don Wilkerson, Billie Holiday, Lucky Millinder, Boyd Raeburn, and Blanche Calloway. He was a session musician for Atlantic Records and many other recording studios during the 1950s. He played with musicians Sam "The Man" Taylor, Panama Francis, Mickey Baker, Ernie Hayes, and many others. He was a member of Alan Freed's Rock & Roll Orchestra at the Brooklyn Paramount and Fox Theaters during the late 1950s. He was a member of the Apollo house band during the early 1950s. He worked with arrangers Jesse Stone, Sammy Lowe, Leroy Kirkland, and Archie Bleyer, among others. He made hundreds of records during this time period, many of them major hits.[2] He played many weekend nightclub dates. His favorite was playing with Billy Rowland at the Seascape in Islip, Long Island during the 1970s.[3]Trotman died, aged 84, on October 3, 2007 in Long Island, and is buried at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Farmingdale, New York.