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James Scott
American ragtime composer
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Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
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James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Joseph Lamb
American composer of ragtime music
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Wilbur Sweatman
American musician
5
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
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Dick Zimmerman
American magician
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Earl Washington
American musician
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Euday L. Bowman
American composer
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Terry Waldo
American musician
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Knocky Parker
American musician
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Tony Russell
British musician
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Jaki Byard
American musician
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Lou Busch
American record producer, musician and songwriter (1910-1979)
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Arthur Schutt
American pianist
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Muggsy Spanier
American musician
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Horace Ott
American musician
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Dick Hyman
American jazz pianist and composer
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Arthur Marshall
American composer and pianist
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Wally Rose
American musician
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Gigi Gryce
American recording artist; jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator
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Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
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Onzy Matthews
American jazz musician (1930-1997)
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Elmer Schoebel
American musician
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John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Jimmy Blythe
American jazz and boogie-woogie pianist
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Harry South
British musician
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Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
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Tadd Dameron
American pianist
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Ben Harney
American musician
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Charles Thompson
American pianist
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Jim McNeely
American musician
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Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
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Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Zez Confrey
American composer and performer of piano music.
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James Reese Europe
American jazz musician and United States Army officer
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Charles L. Johnson
American composer
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Michel Camilo
Dominican Grammy-award winning pianist and composer (born 1954)
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Dave Van Ronk
American musician
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Marcus Roberts
American musician
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Jimmy McPartland
American cornetist
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Louis Chauvin
U.S. ragtime pianist
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Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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George Washington Thomas, Jr.
American musician
