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Don Ewell
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Marty Grosz
Marty Grosz
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Herb Hall
Herb Hall
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Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
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Ernie Carson
Ernie Carson
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Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber
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Johnny Dunn
Johnny Dunn
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Zutty Singleton
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Kid Ory
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Cliff Leeman
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Johnny Dodds
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Billy Taylor
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Cozy Cole
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Tony Jackson
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Baby Dodds
Baby Dodds
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Turk Murphy
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Tiny Parham
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Howard Biggs
Howard Biggs
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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael
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Clarence Williams
Clarence Williams
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George Washington Thomas, Jr.
George Washington Thomas, Jr.
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Bob Zurke
Bob Zurke
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Earl Palmer
Earl Palmer
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Kings of Rhythm
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Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey "Piano" Smith
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Amos Milburn
Amos Milburn
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Tommy Benford
Tommy Benford
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The Jelly Roll Kings
The Jelly Roll Kings
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller
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Morten Gunnar Larsen
Morten Gunnar Larsen
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Lu Watters
Lu Watters
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Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone
American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter
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Marcus Roberts
Marcus Roberts
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Kaiser Marshall
Kaiser Marshall
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Richie Powell
Richie Powell
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Glover Compton
Glover Compton
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Frank Froeba
Frank Froeba
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Bob Greene
American pianist

Bob Greene

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American pianist
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Music

Bob Greene (September 4, 1922, New York City – October 13, 2013, Amagansett, New York) was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.

Greene was active early in his career in Dixieland jazz revival groups, working with Sidney De Paris, Baby Dodds, Conrad Janis, and Johnny Wiggs. He then left music for a time, taking a degree at Columbia University and working in radio and speechwriting, including for Lyndon Johnson and Robert F. Kennedy. In the late 1960s he began performing professionally again, working with Zutty Singleton; after Robert Kennedy's assassination, he quit speechwriting to focus on music full-time. He worked in the early 1970s with Don Ewell, Albert Nicholas, and the Peruna Jazz Band, and put together a traveling ensemble which paid tribute to the music of Jelly Roll Morton. This group toured worldwide and recorded several albums; among his sidemen in this setting were Danny Barker, Tommy Benford, Herb Hall, Milt Hinton, and Johnny Williams.

Greene was the nephew of Paul Blum, a former intelligence officer. Greene wrote a biography of Blum which was published in 1998.