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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Jimmie Noone
Jimmie Noone
American musician
2
Red Norvo
Red Norvo
American musician
3
Dave Barbour
Dave Barbour
American jazz guitarist
4
Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
5
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Dick McDonough
Dick McDonough
American musician
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Mel Powell
Mel Powell
American composer
8
Jess Stacy
Jess Stacy
American musician
9
Edgar Sampson
Edgar Sampson
American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist
10
Edmond Hall
Edmond Hall
American jazz clarinetist
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Manny Klein
Manny Klein
American musician
12
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
13
Shelly Manne
Shelly Manne
American jazz drummer
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zeke Zarchy
zeke Zarchy
American jazz trumpeter
15
Herb Geller
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
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Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
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Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
American jazz pianist
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Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld
Canadian jazz musician
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Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
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Nick Fatool
Nick Fatool
American musician
21
Terry Gibbs
Terry Gibbs
American vibraphonist
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John Hammond
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
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Walt Levinsky
Walt Levinsky
American musician
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Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest
American singer
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Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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Buddy DeFranco
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Sonny Russo
Sonny Russo
American jazz trombonist
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Ziggy Elman
Ziggy Elman
American musician
29
Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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Dave Tough
Dave Tough
American drummer
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Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
32
Clyde Hurley
Clyde Hurley
American musician
33
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
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Jimmy Rowles
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
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Vernon Brown
Vernon Brown
American musician
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Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
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Sid Weiss
Sid Weiss
American double bass player
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James Chirillo
James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Hank Jones
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Ray Linn
Ray Linn
American musician
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Arvell Shaw
Arvell Shaw
American musician
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Shorty Rogers
Shorty Rogers
American West coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and arranger (1924-1994)
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David Benoit
David Benoit
American jazz pianist, composer and producer (born 1953)
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey
American jazz singer
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Johnny Guarnieri
Johnny Guarnieri
American musician
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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Conte Candoli
Conte Candoli
American musician
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Conrad Gozzo
Conrad Gozzo
American musician
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John Bunch
John Bunch
American jazz pianist
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Kid Ory
Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Milt Raskin
Milt Raskin
American musician
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Tal Farlow
Tal Farlow
American jazz guitarist
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Sol Yaged
Sol Yaged
American jazz clarinetist
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Eddie Sauter
Eddie Sauter
American composer and bandleader (1914-1981)
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Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus
American saxophonist and composer (1929-2020)
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
63
Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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Lee Young
Lee Young
American musician
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Clora Bryant
Clora Bryant
American musician
66
Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
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Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes
American musician
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Joe Venuti
Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
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Dick Cary
Dick Cary
American jazz pianist
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Enoch Light
Enoch Light
American musician
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Ed Shaughnessy
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
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Jim Hall
Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
75
Trummy Young
Trummy Young
American jazz trombonist
Artie Bernstein
American jazz bassist

Artie Bernstein

Intro
American jazz bassist
Genres
Music

Arthur "Artie" Bernstein (February 4, 1909 – January 4, 1964) was an American jazz double bassist.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his musical career playing cello on board cruise ships to South America, and also studied law at New York University. However, by 1929 he had started playing bass, and began performing in clubs around New York City. He performed with trumpeter Red Nichols, Red Norvo and others, and recorded with Ben Pollack, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, and many others in the 1930s. In 1939 he performed with Benny Goodman at the second From Spirituals to Swing concert. He fell out with Goodman in 1941 - Goodman fiddled with Bernstein's music-stand light so that he would have problems reading the music and appear incompetent, giving Goodman a pretext to fire him.

However, he won the Down Beat readers' poll in 1943. He later moved to Los Angeles and worked in the film industry for such companies as Universal Studios and Warner Bros., continuing to work for the latter organization until 1963.

He died in Los Angeles at the age of 54.