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The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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David Williams
David Williams
American jazz musician
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Nikolaj Hess
Nikolaj Hess
Pianist, composer, bandleader
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Kenny Washington
Kenny Washington
American musician
4
David "Fathead" Newman
David "Fathead" Newman
American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist
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Valery Ponomarev
Valery Ponomarev
American musician
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Joe Locke
Joe Locke
American musician
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Victor Lewis
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
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Russell Malone
Russell Malone
jazz guitarist
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Ralph Peterson, Jr.
Ralph Peterson, Jr.
American jazz drummer
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Rufus Reid
Rufus Reid
American musician
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Dale Barlow
Dale Barlow
Australian musician
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Charnett Moffett
Charnett Moffett
American musician
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Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan
American musician
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George Mraz
George Mraz
Czech jazz bassist
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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John Heard
John Heard
American musician and sculptor
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
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Sherman Ferguson
Sherman Ferguson
American musician
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Ronnie Mathews
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
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Buster Williams
Buster Williams
American musician
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell
American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet
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Cindy Blackman
Cindy Blackman
American musician
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Ray Drummond
Ray Drummond
American musician
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Lewis Nash
Lewis Nash
American drummer
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Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
American jazz musician
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George Andrew Cables
George Andrew Cables
American jazz pianist
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Nathan East
Nathan East
American musician
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John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Christian McBride
Christian McBride
American musician
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Ron McClure
Ron McClure
American jazz bassist
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Art Taylor
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
American musician
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Clint Houston
Clint Houston
American musician
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Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom
American musician
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Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
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Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
American musician
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Larry Ridley
Larry Ridley
American musician
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Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
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Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
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Tom Varner
Tom Varner
American musician
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Mino Cinelu
Mino Cinelu
French musician
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Kenny G
Kenny G
American saxophonist
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Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris
American musician
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Bennie Maupin
Bennie Maupin
American musician
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Michael Moore
Michael Moore
American jazz bassist
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Walter Booker
Walter Booker
American jazz double-bassist
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Larry Grenadier
Larry Grenadier
American bassist
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Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn
American pianist
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Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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David Friesen
David Friesen
American jazz bassist
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Harvie S
Harvie S
American musician
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Albert Heath
Albert Heath
American drummer
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Percy Heath
Percy Heath
American musician
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David Sanborn
David Sanborn
American saxophonist
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Max Roach
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
American trombonist/jazz/trumpet player
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Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett
American musician
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Howard Johnson
Howard Johnson
American musician
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George Tucker
George Tucker
American musician
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Scott Colley
Scott Colley
American musician
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Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller
American jazz musician
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Lionel Loueke
Lionel Loueke
guitarist
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Cameron Brown
Cameron Brown
American musician
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Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin
American musician
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Ron Carter
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
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Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
American musician
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Dave Pike
Dave Pike
American jazz musician
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Kenny Davern
Kenny Davern
American clarinetist
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Ralph Penland
Ralph Penland
American drummer and musician
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Essiet Okon Essiet (born September 1, 1956, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz double-bassist.

Essiet's parents were Nigerian immigrants to the United States. He studied violin, as a child, then learned both bass guitar and stand-up bass as a high schooler in Portland Oregon. After attending Mount Hood Community College, he played briefly in Los Angeles, then worked in Europe in the early 1980s with Famoudou Don Moye. In 1983 he moved to New York City, playing with Abdullah Ibrahim, Art Blakey, Marty Cook, and Ralph Peterson, Jr.. Subsequent associations include performing or recording with George Adams, Ron Affif, Kenny Barron, the Blue Note All-Stars, Paul Bollenback, Donald Brown, Bruce Cox, Kurt Elling, Kenny Garrett, Benny Golson, Jim Hartog, David Hazeltine, Freddie Hubbard, Victor Jones, Joe Locke, Kevin Mahogany, Cedar Walton, and Bobby Watson. He is the leader of the group "Intercontinental Bush Orchestra", founded in 1995. Official website of Essiet Okon Essiet