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Wesley Wilson
American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)
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Wilson Myers
American musician
2
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
3
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
4
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
5
Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
6
Cousin Joe
American blues and jazz singer
7
Lovie Austin
American pianist
8
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
9
Art Hodes
American musician
10
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
11
Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
12
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
13
Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
14
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
15
Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
16
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
17
Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
18
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
19
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
20
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
21
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
22
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
23
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
24
Kansas Fields
American musician
25
Bessie Smith
American blues singer
26
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
27
Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
28
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
29
Bernard Addison
American jazz guitarist
30
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
31
Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
32
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
33
Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
34
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
35
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
36
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
37
Hannah Sylvester
African American blues singer
38
Russell Moore
Pima jazz musician
39
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
40
Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
41
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
42
Daisy Martin
African American actress and blues singer
43
Pops Foster
American musician
44
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
45
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
46
J. C. Johnson
American musician
47
Katie Crippen
African American entertainer and singer
48
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
49
Jimmie Noone
American musician
50
Lee Collins
American musician
51
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
52
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
53
Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
54
Willie Bryant
American singer
55
Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
56
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
57
Guy Longnon
French trumpeter and music educator
58
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
59
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
60
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
61
Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
62
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
63
Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
64
Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
65
Bessie Jones
American folk musician and gospel singer
