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Erskine Hawkins
American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama
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Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
2
Elmo Hope
American musician
3
Dud Bascomb
American musician
4
Haywood Henry
American jazz baritone saxophonist
5
Tommy Stewart
American trumpeter
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Don Byas
American musician
7
Nat King Cole
American singer and jazz pianist (1919-1965)
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Gene Rodgers
American musician
9
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Sammy Lowe
American trumpeter, arranger, and conductor
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Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
12
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer
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Paul Bascomb
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Dodo Marmarosa
American musician
18
Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
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Joe Thomas
trumpeter
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Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Joe Guy
American musician
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Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
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Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
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Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
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Claude Hopkins
American pianist
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Pinetop Smith
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
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Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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Herb Jeffries
American singer and actor (1913-2014)
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Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Cleveland Eaton
American musician
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Bobby Troup
American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter (1918-1999)
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Sammy Price
American pianist
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Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
38
Billy Daniels
American singer
39
Dakota Staton
American jazz vocalist
40
Horacio Gutiérrez
Cuban-American pianist
41
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
42
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
43
Machito
Latin jazz musician
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Arnett Cobb
American jazz tenor saxophonist
45
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
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Charles Thompson
American pianist
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James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
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Matthew Gee
American musician
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Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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Max Jones
British jazz author, radio host, and journalist
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Mercer Ellington
American musician
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Reuben Phillips
musician
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Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
