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Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
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Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
10
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
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Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Marion Harris
American musician (1896-1944)
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Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
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Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
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George McClennon
American clarinetist
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Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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J. C. Johnson
American musician
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Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
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Helen Shapiro
British singer and actress
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Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
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Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
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Sara Martin
American blues singer
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Irene Scruggs
American Piedmont blues and country blues singer
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Ed Allen
musician
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Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
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Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
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Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Helen Merrill
American recording artist; jazz vocalist
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Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
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Ida May Mack
musical artist
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Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
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Kay Starr
American singer
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Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
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Pinetop Smith
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
45
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Wesley Wilson
American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)
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Billy Eckstine
American musician
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T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Tom Delaney
African American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer
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Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
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Memphis Jug Band
band
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Valaida Snow
American musician
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Buster Bailey
American musician
57
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
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Joyce Cobb
American jazz and R&B singer
61
The Boswell Sisters
Singing trio popular during the Jazz Age
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Keter Betts
American jazz musician
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Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
64
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Porter Grainger
American musician
