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Tom Delaney
Tom Delaney
African American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer
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Kitty Brown
Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
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Bob Fuller
Bob Fuller
American blues and jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
3
Cliff Jackson
Cliff Jackson
American pianist
4
Bertha Idaho
Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
5
Maggie Jones
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
6
Lavinia Turner
Lavinia Turner
musical artist
7
Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Ora Alexander
Ora Alexander
American classic female blues singer
9
Fannie May Goosby
Fannie May Goosby
American singer
10
Mattie Delaney
Mattie Delaney
American delta blues singer and guitarist
11
Monette Moore
Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
12
Rosa Henderson
Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
13
Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson
American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter
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Virginia Liston
Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Clara Smith
Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Sippie Wallace
Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Roseanna Vitro
Roseanna Vitro
Jazz singer
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Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger
American musician
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Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Andrew Odom
Andrew Odom
American blues singer (1936–1991)
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Geeshie Wiley
Geeshie Wiley
African-American woman musician
22
Al Cohn
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
23
Willie Clayton
Willie Clayton
American Chicago blues and soul singer and songwriter
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Viola McCoy
Viola McCoy
American blues singer
25
Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
26
Bonnie Bramlett
Bonnie Bramlett
American singer and occasional actress
27
Joe Davis
Joe Davis
American music publisher
28
Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
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Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Barbara Dane
Barbara Dane
American singer
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Seth Walker
Seth Walker
American electric blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
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Bobbye Hall
Bobbye Hall
percussionist
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Lovie Austin
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Carol Fran
Carol Fran
African American soul blues singer, pianist and songwriter
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Jimmy Raney
Jimmy Raney
American musician
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Helen Humes
Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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J. Mayo Williams
J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
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Otis Spann
Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
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Edith North Johnson
Edith North Johnson
American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter
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Martha Copeland
Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
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Dave Bailey
Dave Bailey
American drummer
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
43
Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Victoria Spivey
Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
47
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
American recording artist, singer, songwriter, actor, writer, music arranger (1925-1999)
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Etta James
Etta James
American recording artist; singer
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Janiva Magness
Janiva Magness
American blues singer
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Willie Baker
Willie Baker
American Piedmont blues guitarist singer and songwriter
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Reverend Gary Davis
Reverend Gary Davis
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
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John Long
John Long
American country blues singer, fingerstyle guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter
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Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur
American folk-blues singer
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Champion Jack Dupree
Champion Jack Dupree
American blues pianist
55
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
56
Jimmy Rowles
Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
57
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Buddy Moss
Buddy Moss
American East Coast blues guitarist
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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Turner Foddrell
Turner Foddrell
American singer
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Edna Hicks
Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
63
Valerie June
Valerie June
American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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E.C. Scott
E.C. Scott
musical artist
65
Hazel Meyers
Hazel Meyers
American classic female blues and country blues singer
66
Edmonia Henderson
Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
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Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor
American Chicago blues musician
68
Laura Smith
Laura Smith
American classic female blues and country blues singer
69
Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton
American songwriter, guitarist, singer & producer
Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer

Helen Gross

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Helen Gross (born Hellen R. Gross, May 1896 – unknown) was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the mid-1920s. Songs she recorded include "I Wanna Jazz Some More", "Bloody Razor Blues", and "Strange Man".

All of her recorded work was from sessions in her birthplace, New York City, between May 1924 and March 1925. She recorded 27 songs, which were originally released by Ajax Records. Steve Leggett, writing for AllMusic, noted that her recordings include "a preponderance of often baffling noise effects, which at times gives her songs the feel of a carnival sideshow."

Little is known of her life outside music, and no details of her death are recorded.