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Maurice Rocco
Maurice Rocco
American pianist and actor
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Jimmy Yancey
Jimmy Yancey
African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist
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Jimmy Blythe
Jimmy Blythe
American jazz and boogie-woogie pianist
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson
American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter
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Jabo Williams
Jabo Williams
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Albert Ammons
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
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Blind Leroy Garnett
Blind Leroy Garnett
musical artist
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Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan
American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)
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Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
musical artist
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Arnold Wiley
Arnold Wiley
American pianist (1898-1964)
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Willie Hall
Willie Hall
American musician
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Wingy Manone
Wingy Manone
American musician
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Pinetop Smith
Pinetop Smith
American boogie-woogie style blues pianist
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Sugar Chile Robinson
Sugar Chile Robinson
American musician
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William Ezell
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Roosevelt Sykes
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
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Whistlin' Alex Moore
Whistlin' Alex Moore
American blues pianist, singer and whistler
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James Crutchfield
James Crutchfield
American barrelhouse blues singer, pianist, and songwriter
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George Washington Thomas, Jr.
George Washington Thomas, Jr.
American musician
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Amos Milburn
Amos Milburn
American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist
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Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree
American blues pianist
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Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
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Speckled Red
Speckled Red
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
British musician and tour manager
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Cow Cow Davenport
Cow Cow Davenport
American musician
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Mose Vinson
Mose Vinson
American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer
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Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Neville Dickie
Neville Dickie
British musician
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Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
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Mitch Woods
Mitch Woods
American boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz musician
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Charlie Spand
Charlie Spand
American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Samuel Charters
Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
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Professor Longhair
Professor Longhair
African-American blues musician
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Bob Milne
Bob Milne
American musician
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Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse
American popular music singer (1924-1999)
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Meade Lux Lewis
Meade Lux Lewis
American pianist and composer
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Michael Kaeshammer
Michael Kaeshammer
Canadian musician
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Booker T. Laury
Booker T. Laury
American boogie-woogie, blues, gospel and jazz pianist and singer
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Dick Wellstood
Dick Wellstood
American jazz pianist
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Willard McDaniel
Willard McDaniel
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Roy Milton
Roy Milton
American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader
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Rob Agerbeek
Rob Agerbeek
Dutch musician
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Piano Red
Piano Red
American blues musician
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Caroline Dahl
Caroline Dahl
American musician
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Bob Seeley
Bob Seeley
American musician
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Franny Beecher
Franny Beecher
Rock and roll musician
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey "Piano" Smith
American musician
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
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Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991), born Harry Raab, was a jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. Gibson played New York style stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when under his real name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire.

Gibson was fond of playing Fats Waller tunes, and when Waller heard Gibson in a club in Harlem in 1939, he hired him to be his relief pianist at club dates. Between 1939 and 1945, Gibson played at Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander, and Leon and Eddie's run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis. Harry took the name "Gibson" from a brand of gin.