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Dave Pell
Dave Pell
American musician
1
Larry Elgart
Larry Elgart
American jazz bandleader (1922-2017)
2
Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
3
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
4
Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
5
Milt Bernhart
Milt Bernhart
American musician
6
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Mundell Lowe
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
8
George Avakian
George Avakian
American record producer of Armenian descent
9
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
10
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
11
Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
12
Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham
American musician
13
Conte Candoli
Conte Candoli
American musician
14
Ziggy Elman
Ziggy Elman
American musician
15
Don Fagerquist
Don Fagerquist
American musician
16
Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
17
Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
18
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
19
Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson
American musician
20
Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
21
Barry Galbraith
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
22
Don Lamond
Don Lamond
American musician
23
Al Hendrickson
Al Hendrickson
American musician
24
Jess Stacy
Jess Stacy
American musician
25
Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
26
Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
27
Cozy Cole
Cozy Cole
American musician
28
Victor Young
Victor Young
American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor, orchestra leader (1900-1956)
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Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
30
Frank Luther
Frank Luther
American country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist
31
Pete Candoli
Pete Candoli
American musician (1923-2008)
32
John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
33
Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
34
James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
35
Joe Wilder
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
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Al Cohn
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
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Panama Francis
Panama Francis
American musician
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Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau
Canadian musician
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Sonny Boy Williamson I
Sonny Boy Williamson I
American blues musician
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John Graas
John Graas
American musician
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Maurice Rocco
Maurice Rocco
American pianist and actor
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Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett
American jazz musician
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Paul Horn
Paul Horn
American flautist in jazz and New Age music
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Helen Ward
Helen Ward
American jazz singer
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
46
Conrad Gozzo
Conrad Gozzo
American musician
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Ernie Caceres
Ernie Caceres
American musician
Alec Templeton
British composer

Alec Templeton

Intro
British composer
Awards Received
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Alec Andrew Templeton (4 July 1909/10 – 28 March 1963) was a Welsh composer, pianist and satirist.

Templeton was born in Cardiff, Wales. There is some confusion concerning Alec Templeton's year of birth. Most published and Internet biographies give his birth year as 1909, and it was certainly registered in September of that year, but his headstone shows 1910 as his year of birth. Blind from birth and gifted with absolute pitch, he studied at London's Royal Academy of Music, his piano teachers there being Lloyd Powell and Isador Goodman.