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James Reese Europe
James Reese Europe
American jazz musician and United States Army officer
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Joe Jordan
Joe Jordan
American musician
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Kenyon Hopkins
Kenyon Hopkins
American composer who composed many film scores in a jazz idiom (1912-1983)
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Buck Washington
Buck Washington
American musician and pianist
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Tommy Ladnier
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
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Sam Wooding
Sam Wooding
American jazz pianist
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Irving Mills
Irving Mills
American music publisher, singer, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter
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Kerry Mills
Kerry Mills
American ragtime composer and music publishing executive
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James Chirillo
James Chirillo
Jazz guitar
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Anna Mae Winburn
Anna Mae Winburn
African-American vocalist and jazz bandleader
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Eubie Blake
Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
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Lew Brown
Lew Brown
Russian-American Tin Pan Alley lyricist, songwriter
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Will Hudson
Will Hudson
Canadian-American composer, arranger, and big band leader
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Chester Conn
Chester Conn
American composer of popular music and music publisher
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Wilbur Sweatman
Wilbur Sweatman
American musician
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Art Baron
Art Baron
American musician
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André Previn
André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
Ford Dabney
American conductor and songwriter

Ford Dabney