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Russell Procope
American musician
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Sonny Greer
American jazz drummer
2
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
3
Otto Hardwick
American musician
4
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
5
Ray Nance
American musician
6
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
7
Charles Davis
American musician
8
Sam Woodyard
American jazz drummer
9
Claude Bolling
French musician
10
Marcus Roberts
American musician
11
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
12
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
13
Mercer Ellington
American musician
14
Butch Ballard
American jazz drummer
15
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
16
Matthew Whitaker
American pianist
17
Wilbur Sweatman
American musician
18
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
19
Rex Stewart
American jazz cornetist
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Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer
21
George Duke
American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer (1946-2013)
22
Aaron Bell
American musician
23
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
24
Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
25
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
26
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
27
Harry Carney
American jazz musician
28
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
29
Arthur Parker Whetsol
American jazz trumpeter
30
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
31
Al Hibbler
American baritone vocalist
32
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
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Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
