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Jimmie Gordon
American musician
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Sammy Price
American pianist
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
American blues singer and guitarist
3
King Solomon Hill
Delta blues guitarist and singer (1897–1949)
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Johnny Temple
American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
5
Al Hibbler
American baritone vocalist
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Sonny Boy Williamson I
American blues musician
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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
American band led by Louis Jordan
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Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Bea Booze
American musician
10
Doctor Clayton
American blues musician
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Robert Nighthawk
American blues musician
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Kokomo Arnold
American blues musician
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Blind Joe Taggart
American blind country blues musician
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Jimmy Rogers
Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
15
William Ezell
United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Denis Preston
British record producer
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Woody Herman
American recording artist, clarinetist, band leader
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Big Bill Broonzy
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Louis Jordan
American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908-1975)
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Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
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Wynonie Harris
American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
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Tampa Red
American Chicago blues musician
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Moon Mullican
American recording artist; country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist
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Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
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Memphis Slim
American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer
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Black Ace
American Texas blues musician
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Magic Slim
American blues musician
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Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
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J. B. Lenoir
African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
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Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Johnny Williams
American blues guitarist and singer
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Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
39
Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
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René Hall
American musician, performer, and music arranger
41
Josh White
American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist (1914-1969)
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Little Smokey Smothers
American musician
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Lefty Bates
American Chicago blues guitarist
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Blind Boy Fuller
American blues guitarist and singer
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T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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Blind Willie Johnson
American blues and gospel singer and guitarist
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Sonny Boy Williamson II
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
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Carey Bell
American blues musician
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Smokey Hogg
American post-war Texas and country blues musician
51
Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Otis Spann
American Chicago blues pianist
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Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Blind Blake
American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist
55
Don Robey
American record producer and songwriter
56
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Dobie Gray
American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop and musical theater. (1940-2011)
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George Barnes
American musician
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Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
