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Kenny Washington
American musician
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Jay Leonhart
American double bassist, singer, and songwriter
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Houston Person
American saxophonist
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Hank Crawford
American saxophonist (1934-2009)
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Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Bill Mobley
American musician
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Jimmy Ponder
American guitarist
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Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
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Bernard Purdie
American drummer
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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
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Billy Butler
American musician
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Herman Riley
American musician
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Eddie Gladden
American musician
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Ray Drummond
American musician
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Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Ben Riley
American drummer
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Al Grey
American jazz musician
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Stanton Davis
American musician
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Etta Jones
American jazz singer
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Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
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Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
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Eddie Bert
American musician
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Richard Holmes
American organist
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Idris Muhammad
American drummer
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Rodney Jones
American jazz guitarist and bassist, born 30 August 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Cecil McBee
American bassist
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Joe Newman
American musician
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James Blood Ulmer
American jazz and blues guitarist and singer
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Rufus Reid
American musician
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Barbara Morrison
American singer
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James Williams
American jazz pianist
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Jeff "Tain" Watts
American musician
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Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
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Roland Hanna
American pianist
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Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
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Joel Helleny
American musician
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Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Don Sickler
American musician
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Harold Vick
American musician
39
George Mraz
Czech jazz bassist
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Gene Orloff
American musician
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Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
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Eric Alexander
American saxophonist
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Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Paul Humphrey
American musician
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Arnold Sterling
American jazz saxophonist
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Cecil Brooks III
American musician
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Skeeter Best
American musician
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Cornell Dupree
American R&B/soul jazz guitarist
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Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
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Scott Hamilton
American musician
51
Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
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John Blake, Jr.
American jazz violinist
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David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
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Freddie Waits
American musician
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Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
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Eddie Allen
jazz musician
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Ronnie Mathews
American musician
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Junior Cook
American saxophonist
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Mel Lewis
American musician
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Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
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Jean-Paul Bourelly
American jazz fusion guitarist
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Stanley Turrentine
American musician
63
Lonnie Smith
American jazz musician
64
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
65
Marvin Stamm
American trumpeter
66
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Johnny Coles
American trumpeter
68
Michael Carvin
American musician
69
Mel Brown
American jazz guitarist
70
John Clayton
American jazz and classical double bassist
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Dennis Mackrel
jazz musician
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Alan Rubin
Jazz trumpeter, Blues Brothers member
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Jack Wilkins
American musician
