Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer."
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Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
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Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Bob Cranshaw
American musician
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Julian Priester
American jazz trombonist
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Stanley Turrentine
American musician
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George Coleman
American musician
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Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
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Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Shirley Scott
American jazz organist and recording artist
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Charlie Rouse
American musician
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Harold Vick
American musician
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Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
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Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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James Spaulding
American saxophonist
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Richard Williams
American jazz trumpeter
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Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
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Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
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Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
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Harold Land
American musician
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Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Pete La Roca
American drummer
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Joe Harriott
Jamaican jazz musician
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Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
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Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Walter Davis
American pianist
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Les Spann
American guitarist
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Randy Brecker
American flugelhorn and trumpet player (1945-)
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Speedy Jones
American drummer
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Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
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Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
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Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Benny Powell
American jazz trombonist
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Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
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Lex Humphries
American drummer
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Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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Bobby Jaspar
cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer
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Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
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Mel Lewis
American musician
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Booker Ervin
American saxophonist
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Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Hank Mobley
American saxophonist
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Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
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Tubby Hayes
British jazz musician
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Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
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Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
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Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Ray Nance
American musician
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The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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Don Butterfield
American musician
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Ian Carr
British trumpeter
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Johnny Hodges
American alto saxophonist
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Sonny Red
American musician
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Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
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John Gilmore
American tenor saxophonist
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Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
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Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
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Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
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Willie Bobo
American musician
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Teddy Charles
American musician
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Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist
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Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Burt Collins
American trumpeter and musician
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Russell Procope
American musician
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Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Jimmy Hamilton
American jazz musician