Chico Freeman (born Earl Lavon Freeman Jr.; July 17, 1949) is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman. He began recording as lead musician in 1976 with Morning Prayer, won the New York Jazz Award in 1979 and earned the Stereo Review Record of the Year in 1981 for his album The Outside Within.
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Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
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Von Freeman
American saxophonist
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Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
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Ted Nash
American musician
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Art Porter, Jr.
American musician
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Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
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Tomasz Stańko
Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser
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Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Paul Chambers
American musician
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Don Braden
American musician
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Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
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Bobby Watson
composer
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Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
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Marlon Jordan
American musician
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Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
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Ted Nash
Woodwind virtuoso, author and studio musician
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Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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Cecil McBee
American bassist
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Simon Spillett
British musician
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Rent Romus
American musician
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Jaki Byard
American musician
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Melissa Aldana
Chilean saxophonist
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Chris Kelsey
American musician
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Myron Walden
American musician
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Jackie McLean
American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
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Albert Ayler
American jazz saxophonist
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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George Freeman
American musician
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Woody Shaw
American musician
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John Purcell
American jazz saxophonist
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Kenny Kirkland
American musician
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
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James Williams
American jazz pianist
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Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer