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Ferde Grofé

American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist

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Ira Gershwin

American lyricist (1893-1983)

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Anne Brown

American singer

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Wayne Marshall

British pianist, organist and conductor

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Paul Whiteman

American jazz musician and radio personality

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Vernon Duke

American composer

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Cy Walter

American pianist

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Harold Arlen

American composer of popular music (1905-1986)

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Bill Potts

American musician

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André Previn

German-American pianist, conductor and composer

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

American musical duo, collaboration

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Joe Henderson

American jazz tenor saxophonist

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Stanley Black

British composer

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Joanna MacGregor

British musician

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DuBose Heyward

American novelist, playwright, poet

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James P. Johnson

American pianist and composer

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Nathaniel Shilkret

American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director

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Michael Mantler

Austrian musician

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Gil Evans

American pianist