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Fritz Pauer
Fritz Pauer
Austrian composer and pianist
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Jay Clayton
Jay Clayton
American singer
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Matt Wilson
Matt Wilson
American jazz drummer
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David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas
British musician
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Dena DeRose
Dena DeRose
Jazz pianist and singer, educator
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Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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James Emery
James Emery
American musician
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Joe Nay
Joe Nay
German drummer
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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Melanie Bong
Melanie Bong
German woman composer
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Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
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Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master (1929-)
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears
American rock music band
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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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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Kai Winding
Kai Winding
Danish-born American jazz musician and trombonist
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Mickey Baker
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist
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Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Diana Krall
Diana Krall
Canadian recording artist; jazz singer and pianist
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
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Marshall Gilkes
Marshall Gilkes
American musician
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Hank Jones
Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Jane Ira Bloom
Jane Ira Bloom
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
American musician
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Onaje Allan Gumbs
Onaje Allan Gumbs
American musician
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Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai
British acid jazz band
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Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton
American musician
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Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander
Jamaican pianist
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The O'Jays
The O'Jays
American band that plays rhythm and blues
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Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
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Tommy Ladnier
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
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John Patitucci
John Patitucci
American jazz bassist and composer
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Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon
US musician
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Woody Herman
Woody Herman
American recording artist, clarinetist, band leader
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Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette
American saxophonist and jazz musician
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Alexis Cole
Alexis Cole
jazz musician
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Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
American jazz harpist
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Randy Napoleon
Randy Napoleon
American musician
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
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Bob Thiele
Bob Thiele
American record producer, music executive (1922-1996)
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
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Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard
American musician
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Fred Hersch
Fred Hersch
American musician
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Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton
Irish rock musician, bass player of U2
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Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
American musician
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Ron Carter
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
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Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs
American musician
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Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
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Taylor Ho Bynum
Taylor Ho Bynum
American musician
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Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
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Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom
American musician
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Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
American trumpeter
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli
American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
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Les McCann
Les McCann
American musician
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Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Norah Jones
Norah Jones
American singer, songwriter and pianist
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DJ Premier
DJ Premier
American record producer and DJ
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James Chirillo
James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda
Austrian pianist and composer
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McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
Ed Neumeister
Composer, jazz trombonist

Ed Neumeister

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Composer, jazz trombonist
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Ed Neumeister (born 1952) is a composer and jazz trombonist. He was born in Topeka, Kansas.

An early 2000s collaboration with Jay Clayton and Fritz Pauer was released as the album 3 for the Road. Around 2012, Neumeister took teaching posts at The New School, New York University, William Paterson University, Rutgers University, and City College of New York. Neumeister's solo trombone album, One and Only, contained recordings from 1994 and 2016. In 2019, Neumeister was part of Joe Vano's Streams of Expressions band.