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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Benny Morton
American musician
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Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
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Budd Johnson
American musician
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Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Henry Coker
American musician
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Melba Liston
American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and composer
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Al Grey
American jazz musician
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Don Byas
American musician
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Mary Stallings
American singer
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John Heard
American musician and sculptor
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Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
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Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
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Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
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Billy Bauer
American jazz guitarist
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Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
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Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
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Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Sonny Payne
American jazz drummer
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Emmett Berry
American musician
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Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
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Pete Candoli
American musician (1923-2008)
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Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
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Ray Bryant
American pianist
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Neal Hefti
American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1928-2008)
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Chris Anderson
American jazz pianist
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Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
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Aaron Bell
American musician
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Tadd Dameron
American pianist
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Cleveland Eaton
American musician
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Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Shorty Rogers
American West coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and arranger (1924-1994)
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Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Billy Kyle
Jazz pianist
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Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
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Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
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Arthur Prysock
American singer
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Sonny Clark
American musician
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Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Buster Harding
Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Walter Page
American jazz musician
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Irene Higginbotham
American musician
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Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
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Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Sugar Chile Robinson
American musician
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Bobby Hutcherson
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player
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Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
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John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Dave Barbour
American jazz guitarist
