John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
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Milt Jackson
American musician
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Percy Heath
American musician
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Jaki Byard
American musician
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Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Connie Kay
American musician
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Ran Blake
American musician
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Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Art Tatum
American jazz pianist
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J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
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Gunther Schuller
American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician
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Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer
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Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Walter Davis
American pianist
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Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
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Oscar Pettiford
American musician
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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
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John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Shafi Hadi
American musician
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
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Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Dodo Marmarosa
American musician
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Steve Kuhn
American pianist
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Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Joe Harriott
Jamaican jazz musician
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John Esposito
American musician
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George Russell
American pianist and composer
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Stan Levey
American musician
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Earl Hines
American jazz pianist
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Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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George Adams
musician
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Don Pullen
American jazz pianist and organist
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Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
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Bud Powell
American pianist and composer
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Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
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Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
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Elmo Hope
American musician