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Tommy Benford
Tommy Benford
American jazz drummer
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Big Boy Goudie
Big Boy Goudie
American musician
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Hot Lips Page
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
3
Jimmy McPartland
Jimmy McPartland
American cornetist
4
Jimmy Harrison
Jimmy Harrison
American musician
5
Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
6
Percival Mackey
Percival Mackey
British composer
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George Porter
George Porter
American musician
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Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
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Bill Douglass
Bill Douglass
American jazz drummer
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Theodore Carpenter
Theodore Carpenter
American trumpeter and jazz musician
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Wingy Manone
Wingy Manone
American musician
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Dan Emmett
Dan Emmett
American entertainer
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Al Jolson
Al Jolson
American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886-1950)
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Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
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Buddy Collette
Buddy Collette
American musician
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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The New Christy Minstrels
The New Christy Minstrels
American large-ensemble folk music group
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Allen Lowe
Allen Lowe
American jazz musician
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Clyde Hurley
Clyde Hurley
American musician
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Louis Mitchell
Louis Mitchell
American musician
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Michael Moore
Michael Moore
American jazz bassist
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Dave Pike
Dave Pike
American jazz musician
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Robbie France
Robbie France
British musician
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Eddie Chamblee
Eddie Chamblee
American saxophonist
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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Raymond Fol
Raymond Fol
French composer
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Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson
American musician
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Return to Forever
Return to Forever
American jazz fusion group led by Chick Corea
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George Guesnon
George Guesnon
American musician
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Frank Galbreath
Frank Galbreath
American musician
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Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson
American saxophonist
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Elmer Snowden
Elmer Snowden
American musician
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Freddie Jenkins
Freddie Jenkins
American musician
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Danny Barker
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
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Matt Chamberlain
Matt Chamberlain
musician
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Jeffrey Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond
British musician
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Clancy Hayes
Clancy Hayes
American musician
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Joe Dodge
Joe Dodge
American musician
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Brian Downey
Brian Downey
Irish musician, songwriter and drummer
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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Jasper Taylor
Jasper Taylor
American drummer
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Bill Berry
Bill Berry
American musician
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Jabbo Smith
Jabbo Smith
American musician
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer
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Jimmie Noone
Jimmie Noone
American musician
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
Amos White
American trumpeter

Amos White

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American trumpeter
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Music

Amos White (November 6, 1889 – July 2, 1980) was an American jazz trumpeter.

White grew up an orphan in Charleston, South Carolina, where he played in the Jenkins Orphanage band in his teens in addition to traveling with minstrel shows and traveling circuses. After attending Benedict College, he returned to the orphanage to take a teaching position. During World War I White played in the 816th Pioneer Infantry Band in France, and settled in New Orleans after the war. Working as a typesetter, he played jazz in his spare time, working with Papa Celestin and Fate Marable among others. In the 1920s, he appeared on many records by blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Lizzie Miles, and played in the Alabamians. In 1928, he became the leader of the Georgia Minstrels.

In the 1930s, White moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he played with his own group and with local dance groups, including Felipe Lopez's. Later in the decade he relocated to Oakland, California, where he played locally into the 1960s in marching bands.