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Professor Longhair
African-American blues musician
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Alvin Tyler
American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger
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Huey "Piano" Smith
American musician
3
Harold Battiste
American music composer, arranger, performer, and teacher
4
Cha Wa
American funk band
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Galactic
band
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Monk Boudreaux
American singer and musician
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Albert "June" Gardner
New Orleans jazz musician
8
Allen Toussaint
American musician
9
Willie Tee
American musician
10
Dr. John
American singer-songwriter (1941-2019)
11
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
American musical group; New Orleans, Louisiana, brass band
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Senator Jones
American musician
13
Ziggy Modeliste
American musician
14
Charles Neville
American musician
15
Rebirth Brass Band
American brass band
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Kidd Jordan
American saxophonist
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Robert Parker
American R&B singer
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Irving Banister
American R&B musician
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Paul Barbarin
American musician
20
Idris Muhammad
American drummer
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Earl Palmer
American drummer
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Art Neville
American musician
23
Cindy Blackman
American musician
24
James Booker
American musician
25
Al Hirt
American trumpeter and bandleader
26
Bob James
smooth jazz keyboardist and composer
27
Pete Fountain
American clarinetist (1930-2016)
28
Snooks Eaglin
American musician
29
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
30
Baby Dodds
American musician
31
Harry Connick Jr.
American singer, conductor, pianist, actor, and composer
32
Nathaniel "Nat" Perrilliat
New Orleans jazz musician
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James Black
American R&B and jazz musician
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Donald Harrison
musician, composer, producer, instructor
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Tab Benoit
American blues guitarist, musician and singer
