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Gregg Stafford
Gregg Stafford
American jazz musician and educator
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Leroy Jones
Leroy Jones
American musician
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
American musical group; New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
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Steve Masakowski
Steve Masakowski
musical artist
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Buddy Bolden
Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Isidore Barbarin
Isidore Barbarin
American jazz cornet
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Paul Barbarin
Paul Barbarin
American musician
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Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins
American musician
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Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Ellis Marsalis Jr.
American pianist
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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis
American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1960)
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Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
band that plays jazz
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Marcus Roberts
Marcus Roberts
American musician
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Trombone Shorty
Trombone Shorty
American trombone player
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Walter Thomas
Walter Thomas
American saxophonist
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Pedrito Martinez
Pedrito Martinez
musician
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Delfeayo Marsalis
Delfeayo Marsalis
American trombonist
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Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
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Fred Lonzo
Fred Lonzo
American musician
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Louis Barbarin
Louis Barbarin
American jazz drummer
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Wycliffe Gordon
Wycliffe Gordon
American musician
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Ted Nash
Ted Nash
American musician
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Albert "June" Gardner
Albert "June" Gardner
New Orleans jazz musician
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Herlin Riley
Herlin Riley
American musician
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David Lee
David Lee
American jazz drummer
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James Morrison
James Morrison
Australian jazz musician
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The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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Harry Connick Jr.
Harry Connick Jr.
American singer, conductor, pianist, actor, and composer
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Young Tuxedo Brass Band
Young Tuxedo Brass Band
American brass band
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Robert Hurst
Robert Hurst
American jazz bassist
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Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth Brass Band
American brass band
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Victor Goines
Victor Goines
American musician
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Willie Humphrey
Willie Humphrey
American musician
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Albert Burbank
Albert Burbank
American jazz clarinetist
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Kidd Jordan
Kidd Jordan
American saxophonist
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Lew Soloff
Lew Soloff
American musician
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Lucky Millinder
Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Carl Allen
Carl Allen
American jazz drummer
Danny Barker
American jazz musician

Danny Barker

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American jazz musician
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Member of, past and present
American Federation of Musicians. Local 496 (New Orleans, La.)

American Federation of Musicians. Local 496 (New Orleans, La.)

Sign indicating Barker's birthplace

Daniel Moses Barker (January 13, 1909 – March 13, 1994) was an American jazz musician, vocalist, and author from New Orleans. He was a rhythm guitarist for Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter during the 1930s.

One of Barker's earliest teachers in New Orleans was fellow banjoist Emanuel Sayles, with whom he recorded. Throughout his career, he played with Jelly Roll Morton, Baby Dodds, James P. Johnson, Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, and Red Allen. He also toured and recorded with his wife, singer Blue Lu Barker. From the 1960s, Barker's work with the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band was pivotal in ensuring the longevity of jazz in New Orleans, producing generations of new talent, including Wynton and Branford Marsalis who played in the band as youths.