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Dodo Marmarosa
Dodo Marmarosa
American musician
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Herbie Harper
Herbie Harper
American musician
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Rolf Ericson
Rolf Ericson
Swedish musician
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Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett
American jazz musician
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Don Lamond
Don Lamond
American musician
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Buddy DeFranco
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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George Roberts
George Roberts
American trombonist
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Dave Pell
Dave Pell
American musician
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Chuck Flores
Chuck Flores
American jazz drummer
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Willie Smith
Willie Smith
American musician
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Harry Edison
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Bill Harris
Bill Harris
American jazz trombonist
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Bill Holman
Bill Holman
American composer, arranger, and conductor
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Max Roach
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
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Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
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Teddy Edwards
Teddy Edwards
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Conte Candoli
Conte Candoli
American musician
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Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
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Frank Rosolino
Frank Rosolino
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Harry Babasin
Harry Babasin
American musician
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Mousey Alexander
Mousey Alexander
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Jack Marshall
Jack Marshall
American musician, conductor, composer (1921-1973)
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Don Butterfield
Don Butterfield
American musician
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George Shearing
George Shearing
British-American jazz pianist
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Eddie Bert
Eddie Bert
American musician
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Nick Fatool
Nick Fatool
American musician
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Joe Bushkin
Joe Bushkin
American jazz pianist, songwriter
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Joe Comfort
Joe Comfort
American musician
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Harry James
Harry James
American trumpeter, big band leader
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Helen Ward
Helen Ward
American jazz singer
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Ray Nance
Ray Nance
American musician
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Willie Dennis
Willie Dennis
jazz musician
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Jackie Paris
Jackie Paris
American singer
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Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Al Porcino
Al Porcino
American musician
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Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
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Jake Hanna
Jake Hanna
American drummer
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Buddy Collette
Buddy Collette
American musician
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Jackie Kelso
Jackie Kelso
musician
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Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol
Puerto Rican trombonist and composer
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Shelly Manne
Shelly Manne
American jazz drummer
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Buddy Childers
Buddy Childers
American musician
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Pete Candoli
Pete Candoli
American musician (1923-2008)
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Milt Bernhart
Milt Bernhart
American musician
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George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
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Tommy Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer
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Doug Watkins
Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist
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Jack Costanzo
Jack Costanzo
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Percy Heath
Percy Heath
American musician
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Shorty Rogers
Shorty Rogers
American West coast jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and arranger (1924-1994)
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Al Hendrickson
Al Hendrickson
American musician
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Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
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Britt Woodman
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Nick Travis
Nick Travis
American jazz musician
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Larry Bunker
Larry Bunker
American musician
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Freddie Green
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Connie Kay
Connie Kay
American musician
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Barry Galbraith
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
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Monty Budwig
Monty Budwig
American double bassist
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Wayne Andre
Wayne Andre
American trombonist
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Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis
American musician
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Vido Musso
Vido Musso
Italian musician
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Walter Davis
Walter Davis
American pianist
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Leroy Vinnegar
Leroy Vinnegar
American bassist
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Gerald Wiggins
Gerald Wiggins
American pianist
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Red Callender
Red Callender
American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew
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Jymie Merritt
Jymie Merritt
American bassist
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Bobby Donaldson
Bobby Donaldson
American musician
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Sam Jones
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
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Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
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Kai Winding
Kai Winding
Danish-born American jazz musician and trombonist
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Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
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Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray
American musician
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Herb Geller
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
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Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
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Skeeter Best
Skeeter Best
American musician
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Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
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Herbie Lewis
Herbie Lewis
American musician
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Jimmy Raney
Jimmy Raney
American musician
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Jonah Jones
Jonah Jones
American musician
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Harry Betts
Harry Betts
American jazz trombonist (1922-2012)
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Mundell Lowe
Mundell Lowe
American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)
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Jackie Mills (born March 11, 1922, New York City - died March 22, 2010, Beaumont, California) was an American jazz drummer.

Mills first learned guitar before picking up drums when he was ten years old. He played in the swing groups of Charlie Barnet and Boyd Raeburn in the 1940s, then with Jazz at the Philharmonic, Gene Norman, Babe Russin, Mannie Klein, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Rene Touzet, Sonny Criss, Andre Previn, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, and Red Norvo. Later in the 1940s he became interested in bebop and began playing in a style influenced by Max Roach. He began playing with Harry James in 1949, working with him through the late 1950s. He recorded as a session musician in the 1950s, including with Gerry Wiggins and Anita O'Day, and did production work for Columbia, MGM, Mainstream, Capitol and Liberty Records, founding the Larrabee Sound Studios. He occasionally recorded in the 1960s, including with Freddie Roach in 1966 and Dodo Marmarosa in 1978, but was chiefly active as a record executive in his later career.