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Alan Lomax
American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker
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James Dapogny
American musician
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Knocky Parker
American musician
3
Morten Gunnar Larsen
Norwegian musician
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Terry Waldo
American musician
5
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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George Washington Thomas, Jr.
American musician
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Freddie Keppard
American jazz musician
8
Tony Jackson
American musician
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Samuel Charters
American music historian and musician
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Albert Nicholas
American musician
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Zue Robertson
American musician
12
Johnny Dodds
American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist
13
Dink Johnson
American musician
14
Little Brother Montgomery
American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer
15
Jim Cullum, Jr.
American musician
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Bud Scott
American jazz guitarist, banjoist and singer
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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James Booker
American musician
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Lorenzo Tio
American clarinetist
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Ward Pinkett
American jazz trumpeter and scat vocalist
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Spencer Williams
American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer
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Sun Ra
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914-1993)
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Marcus Roberts
American musician
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Blind Willie McTell
Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Memphis Jug Band
band
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Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer
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Professor Longhair
African-American blues musician
