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Mervyn Warren
American singer
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Norah Jones
American singer, songwriter and pianist
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James Williams
American jazz pianist
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Charles Davis
American musician
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Walter Davis
American pianist
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Danny Mixon
American musician
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Harold Mabern
American pianist
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Elmer Snowden
American musician
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Nehemiah Hunter Brown
American musician
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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Putney Dandridge
American musician
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Newman Taylor Baker
American musician
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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
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Noble Sissle
African-American jazz musician
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Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
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George Shirley
American tenor
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Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
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Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
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Johnny Green
American conductor, arranger, composer, pianist; Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s
