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Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
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Oscar Pettiford
American musician
2
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
3
Earl May
American musician
4
Percy Heath
American musician
5
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
6
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Cándido Camero
Cuban percussionist
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Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
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Milt Jackson
American musician
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Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
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Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
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Randy Weston
American jazz pianist
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Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
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Shirley Horn
American singer
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Joanne Brackeen
American musician and jazz educator
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Elmer Snowden
American musician
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Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
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Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
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Jimmy Raney
American musician
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Freddie Redd
American pianist
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Dave Bailey
American drummer
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Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
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John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
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Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
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Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Don Butterfield
American musician
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Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
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David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
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Mercer Ellington
American musician
44
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
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Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Jamil Nasser
American bassist
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Johnny Griffin
American musician
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Abdullah Ibrahim
South African pianist and composer
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Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
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Newman Taylor Baker
American musician
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Eddie Bert
American musician
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Skeeter Best
American musician
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Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer
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Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
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Norman Simmons
pianist and arranger
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Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
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Joe Sample
American pianist
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Orrin Keepnews
American record producer
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Charlie Rouse
American musician
61
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
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Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
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Paul Chambers
American musician
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Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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Willie Smith
American musician
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Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
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Victor Gaskin
American bassist
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Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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Henry Grimes
American musician
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Ray Bryant
American pianist
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
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Stanley Turrentine
American musician
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Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Harry Carney
American jazz musician
81
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
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Marian McPartland
British pianist, composer, writer and radio host
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Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
