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Monty Sunshine
Monty Sunshine
English clarinetist
1
Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish-born skiffle musician
2
Ken Colyer
Ken Colyer
British musician
3
Chris Barber
Chris Barber
English trombonist
4
Leroy Carr
Leroy Carr
American blues singer, songwriter and pianist
5
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
6
Ottilie Patterson
Ottilie Patterson
Irish singer
7
Lennie Hastings
Lennie Hastings
British musician
8
Rockin' Dopsie
Rockin' Dopsie
American musician
9
Nat Gonella
Nat Gonella
British musician
10
Alex Welsh
Alex Welsh
Scottish musician
11
Eddie Vinson
Eddie Vinson
American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter
12
Viola Gertrude Wells
Viola Gertrude Wells
American singer
13
Vic Dickenson
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
14
Big Maybelle
Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
15
Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
16
Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
17
Roy Fox
Roy Fox
American musician, bandleader
18
Jim Kweskin
Jim Kweskin
American musician
19
Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams
American blues, jazz and gospel singer
20
Les Spann
Les Spann
American guitarist
21
Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith
American musician
22
The Higsons
The Higsons
23
Red Holloway
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
24
Bessie Jones
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
25
Nat Pierce
Nat Pierce
American musician
26
Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
27
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur
American folk-blues singer
28
Lew Stone
Lew Stone
British bandleader and arranger
29
Collective Consciousness Society
Collective Consciousness Society
band
30
Johnny Wiggs
Johnny Wiggs
American musician
31
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
32
Digby Fairweather
Digby Fairweather
British musician
33
Dizzy Reece
Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
34
J. C. Johnson
J. C. Johnson
American musician
35
Queen Ida
Queen Ida
American musician
36
War
War
American funk band
37
Giorgio Gomelsky
Giorgio Gomelsky
Georgian musician (1934-2016)
38
Helen Humes
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
39
Incognito
Incognito
British band
40
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
41
Grover Washington, Jr.
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
42
June Christy
June Christy
American singer
43
Lavay Smith
Lavay Smith
American singer
44
Jack Teagarden
Jack Teagarden
American jazz musician
45
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
46
Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
47
John Renbourn
John Renbourn
English guitarist and songwriter
48
Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham
American musician
49
Yarbrough and Peoples
Yarbrough and Peoples
American R&B duo
50
Len Skeat
Len Skeat
British musician
51
Marion Montgomery
Marion Montgomery
American jazz singer
52
Carla Bley
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
53
Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott
British musician
54
Lucille Bogan
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
55
Si Zentner
Si Zentner
American jazzband leader
56
Bessie Brown
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
57
Sid Phillips
Sid Phillips
British musician
58
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame
English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player
59
Ray Ellington
Ray Ellington
1915-1985, English singer, drummer, bandleader
60
Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
Beryl Bryden
English jazz singer

Beryl Bryden

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English jazz singer
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Beryl Audley Bryden (11 May 1920 – 14 July 1998) was an English jazz singer, who played with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan. Ella Fitzgerald once said of Bryden that she was "Britain's queen of the blues".