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Sammy Price
Sammy Price
American pianist
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Albennie Jones
Albennie Jones
American singer
2
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
3
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
4
Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Ruby Smith
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
6
J. Mayo Williams
J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
7
Monette Moore
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
8
Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson
Irish singer
9
Helen Humes
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
10
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
11
Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
12
Esther Bigeou
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
13
Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
14
Johnny Temple
Johnny Temple
American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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George Guesnon
George Guesnon
American musician
17
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
18
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
19
LaVern Baker
LaVern Baker
American rhythm and blues singer (1929-1997)
20
Jeri Southern
Jeri Southern
American singer
21
Bessie Brown
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
22
Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
23
Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery
American jazz singer
24
Hot Lips Page
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
25
Jimmie Gordon
Jimmie Gordon
American musician
26
Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
27
Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Alberta Hunter
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Red Saunders
Red Saunders
American musician
30
Viola Gertrude Wells
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
31
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
32
Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Blanche Calloway
Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
34
Sathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Bea Benjamin
South African jazz singer
35
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
36
Chick Webb
Chick Webb
American musician
37
Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Ethel Ennis
Ethel Ennis
American musician
39
Ken Colyer
Ken Colyer
British musician
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Leonard Caston
Leonard Caston
American blues pianist and guitarist
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Incognito
Incognito
British band
43
Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
44
Rosetta Howard
Rosetta Howard
American blues singer
45
Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
46
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
47
Ella Johnson
Ella Johnson
American jazz and rhythm and blues vocalist
48
Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
49
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
50
Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher
American singer
51
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
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Al Hibbler
Al Hibbler
American baritone vocalist
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Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham
American musician
54
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
55
Leon Haywood
Leon Haywood
American singer and songwriter
56
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee
American recording artist; singer, songwriter, composer and actress (1920-2002)
57
Helen Shapiro
Helen Shapiro
British singer and actress
58
George Melly
George Melly
English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer
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Billie Davis
Billie Davis
British singer
60
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American gospel singer
61
Morgana King
Morgana King
American singer and actress
62
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
64
Milt Gabler
Milt Gabler
record producer from the United States
65
Alex Welsh
Alex Welsh
Scottish musician
66
Eubie Blake
Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
67
John Hammond
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
68
Bobbi Humphrey
Bobbi Humphrey
American soul-jazz musician
69
Blind Willie Walker
Blind Willie Walker
American guitarist
70
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Axel Zwingenberger
Axel Zwingenberger
German musician
72
Otis Spann
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
73
Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
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Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
75
Ellis Larkins
Ellis Larkins
American recording artist; jazz pianist
76
Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Bea Booze (March 23, 1912 – November 11, 1986), often credited as Wee Bea Booze, was an American R&B and jazz singer most popular in the 1940s. She was one of the few female blues guitarists of that time.