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Buddy Johnson

American jazz and New York blues pianist and bandleader

1

Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz singer

2

Ernestine Anderson

American jazz and blues singer

3

Lonnie Johnson

musician from the USA

4

Helen Humes

American jazz and blues singer

5

Big Maybelle

American R&B singer and pianist

6

Kay Starr

American singer

7

Leroy Kirkland

American musician

8

Sarah Vaughan

American jazz singer

9

Ella Mae Morse

American popular music singer (1924-1999)

10

Dinah Washington

American singer, songwriter, pianist

11

Victoria Spivey

American blues singer and songwriter

12

Big Mama Thornton

American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter

13

Sippie Wallace

American blues and jazz singer

14

Buddy Morrow

American trombonist and bandleader

15

Illinois Jacquet

American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter

16

Ruth Brown

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

17

Maria Muldaur

American folk-blues singer

18

Trixie Smith

African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)

19

Etta Jones

American jazz singer

20

Buddy Rich

American jazz drummer and bandleader

21

Arthur Prysock

American singer

22

Harry Edison

American trumpeter

23

Louis Jordan

American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)

24

Billie Holiday

American jazz singer

25

Pete Candoli

American musician (1923-2008)

26

Gordon Jenkins

American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s

27

Esther Phillips

American R&B singer

28

Barney Kessel

American jazz guitarist

29

Catherine Russell

singer

30

Marlena Shaw

American singer

31

Mildred Bailey

American jazz singer

32

Henry Glover

American songwriter, arranger, record producer and trumpet player

33

Panama Francis

American musician

34

Billy Eckstine

American musician

35

Louis Armstrong

American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer

36

Charlie Shavers

jazz trumpeter

37

Big Brother and the Holding Company

American rock band

38

Plas Johnson

American musician

39

Big Joe Turner

American blues shouter

40

Freda Payne

American singer and actress

41

Helen Shapiro

British singer and actress

42

Sara Martin

American blues singer

43

Chaka Khan

American singer-songwriter

44

Robert Palmer

English singer-songwriter and musician

45

Buddy Holly

American singer-songwriter

46

Roseanna Vitro

Jazz singer

47

Al Hibbler

American baritone vocalist

48

Freddie Jackson

American singer

49

Christine McVie

British rock singer, songwriter

50

Susan Tedeschi

American blues and soul musician

51

Frankie Laine

American popular singer (1913-2007)

52

Ray Charles

American recording artist; musician, singer, songwriter

53

Oleta Adams

American singer

54

Odetta

American recording artist, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and civil and human rights activist (1930-2008)

55

Eddie Vinson

American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter

56

Steve Miller

American guitarist and singer-songwriter

57

Larry Graham

American bass guitar player

58

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

American gospel musician

59

Patti Page

American singer and recording artist

60

The Boswell Sisters

Singing trio popular during the Jazz Age

61

Tracy Nelson

American singer

62

Patrice Rushen

American musician

63

Sam Cooke

American recording artist; singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

64

James Hutchinson

American musician