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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
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Harry Edison
American trumpeter
3
Joe Newman
American musician
4
Chuck Wilson
American musician (1948-2018)
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Dan Barrett
American musician
6
Randy Sandke
American musician
7
Chris Flory
American musician
8
Chuck Redd
American musician
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Loren Schoenberg
American musician
10
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Dennis Mackrel
jazz musician
14
Al Grey
American jazz musician
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James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Stuff Smith
American musician
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
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Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
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Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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Bill Ramsay
American jazz saxophonist & bandleader
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John Pizzarelli
American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader
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Buddy Tate
American musician
24
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
25
Joe Temperley
Scottish musician
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Don Byas
American musician
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Earle Warren
jazz musician
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Harold Jones
American musician and drummer
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Nat Pierce
American musician
30
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Eddie Bert
American musician
34
Pete Christlieb
American musician
35
John Clayton
American jazz and classical double bassist
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Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
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Jeff Hamilton
American musician
38
Gus Johnson
American musician
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Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Marshal Royal
American musician
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Joe Williams
American jazz singer
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Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
American vocalese trio
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Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
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Scott Hamilton
American musician
46
Charles Thompson
American pianist
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Bennie Green
American musician
48
Howard Alden
American jazz guitarist
49
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
50
Ted Nash
American musician
51
Peter Appleyard
Canadian vibraphonist
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Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
53
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
54
Walter Page
American jazz musician
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Bill Holman
American composer, arranger, and conductor
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Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
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Gene Ramey
American musician
58
Robert Trowers
American musician
59
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
60
Jake Hanna
American drummer
61
Ken Peplowski
American musician
62
Paul Quinichette
American saxophonist and jazz musician
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Harold Ashby
American musician
64
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
65
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
66
Wayne Bergeron
American musician
67
Danny Moss
Jazz saxophonist
68
Pete Candoli
American musician (1923-2008)
69
Ruby Braff
American musician
70
Benny Morton
American musician
71
Rickey Woodard
American jazz musician
72
Marty Paich
American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director and bandleader (1925-1995)
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Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Money Johnson
American musician
75
Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
76
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Joe Benjamin
American musician
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Irving Cottler
American musician
