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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
band that plays jazz
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Shelton Hemphill
Shelton Hemphill
American musician
2
Joe Garland
Joe Garland
American musician
3
Dizzy Reece
Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
4
Lem Johnson
Lem Johnson
American musician
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Norris Turney
Norris Turney
American musician
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Hayes Alvis
Hayes Alvis
musician
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
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Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
10
Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson
composer
11
Barry Harris
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Junior Cook
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
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Vincent Herring
Vincent Herring
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist
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Christian McBride
Christian McBride
American musician
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Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Julian Priester
Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
21
Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
American jazz drummer
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Walter Thomas
Walter Thomas
American saxophonist
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Don Braden
Don Braden
American musician
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Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Bill Coleman
Bill Coleman
American musician
26
Sam Allen
Sam Allen
American jazz pianist
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Harold Vick
Harold Vick
American musician
29
Bubba Brooks
Bubba Brooks
American musician
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Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Buddy Tate
Buddy Tate
American musician
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
American musician
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Javon Jackson
Javon Jackson
American musician
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John Gilmore
John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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Clarence Sharpe
Clarence Sharpe
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Stanley Turrentine
Stanley Turrentine
American musician
37
James Moody
James Moody
American jazz musician
38
James Weidman
James Weidman
American musician and pianist
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Laurdine "Pat" Patrick
Laurdine "Pat" Patrick
American jazz musician
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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Maceo Pinkard
Maceo Pinkard
American composer, lyricist, and music publisher
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Chico Freeman
Chico Freeman
American saxophonist
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John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
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Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
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J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Cecil Scott
Cecil Scott
American musician
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Danny Barker
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
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Luis Russell
Luis Russell
American jazz pianist and bandleader
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Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Martin Hayes
Martin Hayes
Irish fiddler
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Chris Woods
Chris Woods
American jazz saxophonist
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
American musical group; R& B/funk band
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Elmo Hope
Elmo Hope
American musician
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Leonard Davis
Leonard Davis
American jazz musician
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Fud Livingston
Fud Livingston
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer
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Earle Warren
Earle Warren
jazz musician
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Jack Washington
Jack Washington
American jazz saxophonist
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Wild Bill Davis
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
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Marion Brown
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Lonnie Plaxico
Lonnie Plaxico
American jazz bassist
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks
American musician
69
Of a Revolution
Of a Revolution
American rock band
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Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern
American pianist
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Alfred Ellis
Alfred Ellis
American saxophonist
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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
American jazz musician
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Abraham Burton
Abraham Burton
American saxophonist and bandleader
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Nat Towles
Nat Towles
jazz musician
77
Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
Castor McCord
American jazz saxophonist

Castor McCord

Intro
American jazz saxophonist
Genres
Music

Castor "Cass" McCord (May 17, 1907 — February 14, 1963) was an American jazz saxophonist, born in Alabama's largest city, Birmingham, who, with his twin brother, clarinetist and alto saxophonist Ted McCord, started out, at age 17, as a member of Edgar Hayes' Blue Grass Buddies in 1924. Along with Hayes, he attended Ohio's Wilberforce University, where he played in the student band run by Horace Henderson. Later in the 1920s he moved from Ohio to Atlantic City and then to New York City, where he played with the Mills Blue Rhythm Band and Louis Armstrong early in the 1930s. His other collaborators included Eubie Blake and Charlie Matson.

In the middle of the 1930s, McCord played in France for a year and toured India with Leon Abbey in 1936. McCord led his own trio in Amsterdam in 1937, then worked with Walter Rains in Rotterdam the next year. He moved back to New York near the end of the decade, returning to briefly play under Abbey as well as in the bands of Benny Carter, Eddie Mallory, and Claude Hopkins.

In 1940, when he was 33 years old, McCord left music to open a hairdresser shop in Manhattan, running it until his death three months before his 56th birthday.