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Tricky Sam Nanton
Tricky Sam Nanton
American musician
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Bubber Miley
Bubber Miley
American jazz trumpet and cornet player, composer
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
3
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
American jazz bassist
4
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
5
Louis Metcalf
Louis Metcalf
American musician
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Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet
American saxophonist, composer, bandleader
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Maceo Pinkard
Maceo Pinkard
American composer, lyricist, and music publisher
8
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
9
Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
10
Leo Reisman
Leo Reisman
American musician
11
Harry Carney
Harry Carney
American jazz musician
12
John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
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Al Killian
Al Killian
American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader
14
Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
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Ray Nance
Ray Nance
American musician
16
Otto Hardwick
Otto Hardwick
American musician
17
Tyree Glenn
Tyree Glenn
American recording artist; trombonist
18
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Lawrence Brown
Lawrence Brown
jazz trombonist
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Arthur Parker Whetsol
Arthur Parker Whetsol
American jazz trumpeter
21
Alex Hill
Alex Hill
American musician
22
Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
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Ram Ramirez
Ram Ramirez
Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer
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Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
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Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton
American musician
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The Missourians
The Missourians
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
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Joe Steele
Joe Steele
American musician and pianist
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
31
Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Hall
American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer
32
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
34
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Buster Cooper
Buster Cooper
American trombonist
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Willie Cook
Willie Cook
American musician
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Kaiser Marshall
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
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Jimmy Hamilton
Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician
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Wellman Braud
Wellman Braud
American musician
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June Clark
June Clark
Jazz trumpeter and cornetist
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Butch Ballard
Butch Ballard
American jazz drummer
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Billy Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn
American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger
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Money Johnson
Money Johnson
American musician
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
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Paul Howard
Paul Howard
American musician
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Ivie Anderson
Ivie Anderson
American jazz singer
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Willie Smith
Willie Smith
American musician
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Mercer Ellington
Mercer Ellington
American musician
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Irving Mills
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
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Earl Hines
Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
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Freddie Jenkins
Freddie Jenkins
American musician
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Budd Johnson
Budd Johnson
American musician
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Steve Brown
Steve Brown
jazz musician best known for his work on string bass
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Jimmy Maxwell
Jimmy Maxwell
American musician
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Dick Vance
Dick Vance
American musician
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John Dankworth
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
Charlie Irvis
American musician

Charlie Irvis

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American musician
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Charlie Irvis (May 6, 1899, New York City – 1939) was an American jazz trombonist, best known for performing in Duke Ellington's band.

Irvis played with Bubber Miley in his youth and then with blues singer Lucille Hegamin and her Blue Flame Syncopators from 1920 to 1921. Following this he played with Willie "The Lion" Smith and with Duke Ellington's orchestra (1924–1926), as well as recording occasionally with Clarence Williams between 1923 and 1927. Irvis, along with friends Miley and Tricky Sam Nanton, all contributed to the development of "jungle sounds" (growl effects) in trombone playing. After leaving Ellington's band, he recorded with Fats Waller (1927, 1929) and played with Charlie Johnson (1927–1928) and Jelly Roll Morton (1929–1930). Some of his latest recordings were in 1931 with Miley again, and shortly thereafter with Elmer Snowden. After the early 1930s, Irvis apparently stopped playing, and died around 1939 in obscurity.