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Ron Blake
Ron Blake
Puerto Rican musician
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Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
English drummer (born 1957)
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Phil Palmer
Phil Palmer
British musician
3
Victor Lewis
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
4
Gary Foster
Gary Foster
Musician, Instrumentalist
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Vic Juris
Vic Juris
American jazz guitarist
6
Scott Colley
Scott Colley
American musician
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Lewis Porter
Lewis Porter
American musician
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John Scofield
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
10
Roseanna Vitro
Roseanna Vitro
Jazz singer
11
Greg Osby
Greg Osby
American musician
12
Acoustic Alchemy
Acoustic Alchemy
English jazz band
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Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Eubanks
musician, band leader
14
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
American jazz saxophonist
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Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
American musician
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Jim Beard
Jim Beard
American musician
17
Alan Barnes
Alan Barnes
British musician
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Kenny Davis
Kenny Davis
American musician
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John Patitucci
John Patitucci
American jazz bassist and composer
20
Chris Thompson
Chris Thompson
English musician
21
Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
22
Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow
jazz bassist and composer
23
Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
American musician
24
Sean Jones
Sean Jones
American musician
25
Gary Burton
Gary Burton
American vibraphonist
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Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer
American singer
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Steve Turre
Steve Turre
American jazz trombonist
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Kenny Davern
Kenny Davern
American clarinetist
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Carla Bley
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
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Hans Ulrik
Hans Ulrik
Jazz saxophonists
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Ralph Peterson, Jr.
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
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Herb Pomeroy
Herb Pomeroy
American trumpeter
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Curtis Hasselbring
Curtis Hasselbring
American musician
34
Reuben Rogers
Reuben Rogers
American musician
35
John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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John Lunn
John Lunn
British composer
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Steve Davis
Steve Davis
American musician
38
Russell Malone
Russell Malone
jazz guitarist
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Eliot Zigmund
Eliot Zigmund
American jazz drummer
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Kip Hanrahan
Kip Hanrahan
American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist
41
Joe Ford
Joe Ford
American musician
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Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas
American musician
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Horacio Hernandez
Horacio Hernandez
Cuban musician
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Gary Meek
Gary Meek
American musician
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James Genus
James Genus
American musician
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Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
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L. Shankar
L. Shankar
Indian violinist and composer
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Jack Teagarden
Jack Teagarden
American jazz musician
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Joe Farnsworth
Joe Farnsworth
American musician
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Leon Thomas
Leon Thomas
American singer
52
Rob Brown
Rob Brown
American free jazz saxophonist and composer
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George Andrew Cables
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
54
Michael Cain
Michael Cain
American pianist and composer
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Marc Copland
Marc Copland
American musician
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Gary Willis
Gary Willis
American musician
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Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North
band
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Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
59
Mick Goodrick
Mick Goodrick
American musician
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Ricky Ford
Ricky Ford
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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David Torn
David Torn
American guitarist
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Tom Varner
Tom Varner
American musician
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Gregory Hutchinson
Gregory Hutchinson
American jazz drummer
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Bill O'Connell
Bill O'Connell
American musician
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Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe
French saxophonist
66
Samuel Blaser
Samuel Blaser
Swiss trombonist, bandleader and arranger
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Lonnie Plaxico
Lonnie Plaxico
American jazz bassist
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David Amram
David Amram
American musician
69
Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley
English pop singer-songwriter
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Jeff Hirshfield
Jeff Hirshfield
American musician
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Eubie Blake
Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
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Benny Green
Benny Green
American musician
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Mark Egan
Mark Egan
American jazz musician
Dion Parson
American jazz drummer from the U.S. Virgin Islands

Dion Parson

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Dion Gary Parson (born June 11, 1967) is an American jazz drummer from the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Parson was born on St. Thomas and played trombone as a child before picking up drums when he was fifteen years old. He studied at Interlochen and then at Rutgers, where he studied under Keith Copeland and took his bachelor's degree in music education in 1990. In the 1990s he was based primarily in New York City, where he worked with Monty Alexander, Ray Anderson, Dwayne Burno, Don Byron, Marc Cary, Laurent de Wilde, Donald Harrison, Ernest Ranglin, Justin Robinson, and David Sanchez. He has also worked extensively with Ron Blake and fellow Virgin Islander Reuben Rogers. He worked with the Broadway production of The Color Purple starting in 2006, and co-founded the organization United Jazz International with Steve Coleman and Branford Marsalis in 2007. He has taught at Rutgers University, Cheyney University, North Carolina University, and Harlem School of the Arts.