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Chu Berry
American musician
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Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Allan Reuss
American jazz guitarist
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Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
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Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
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Don Byas
American musician
10
Walter Gross
American musician
11
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Charles Davis
American musician
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Paul Quinichette
American saxophonist and jazz musician
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Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Guy Barker
British composer and musician
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Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Pinetop Smith
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
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Hymie Shertzer
American musician
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Tete Montoliu
Spanish jazz musician and pianist (1933-1997)
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Dave Barbour
American jazz guitarist
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Joe Evans
American saxophonist
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Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Ted Nash
American musician
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Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
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Woody Herman
American recording artist, clarinetist, band leader
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Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Eddie Heywood
American jazz pianist, songwriter
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Claude Thornhill
American pianist, composer and arranger
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Claus Ogerman
German composer
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Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Monk Montgomery
American jazz bassist
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Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Tom Archia
American musician
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Harold Ousley
American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist
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Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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George Bohanon
American musician
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Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
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Slide Hampton
American trombonist
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Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
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Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
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Carson Smith
American musician
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Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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A. K. Salim
American musician
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Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
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Billy Bauer
American jazz guitarist
