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Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
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Kahil El'Zabar
American musician
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Defunkt
Defunkt
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Malachi Favors
American bassist
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Ari Brown
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Charles "Bobo" Shaw
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Joseph Jarman
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Hamiet Bluiett
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Ronnie Burrage
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Roscoe Mitchell
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Malachi Thompson
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Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
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Melvin Gibbs
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Roy Campbell, Jr.
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Ernest Dawkins
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Billy Bang
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Alvin Fielder
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Baikida Carroll
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Julius Hemphill
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Oliver Lake
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Josh Roseman
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James Carter
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Donald Garrett
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Don Moye
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William Hooker
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Charles Gayle
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Phillip Wilson
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Kidd Jordan
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
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Vincent Chancey
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Joe Ford
American musician
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Candy Dulfer
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James Emery
American musician
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Karen Borca
American musician
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Alan Silva
American musician
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Robert Irving III
American pianist and composer
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Joel Futterman
American musician
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Jimmy Lyons
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William Parker
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Frank Lowe
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Fred Lonberg-Holm
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Steve Swell
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Sirone
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Steve Lacy
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Gary Bartz
American musician
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Lonnie Smith
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John Stubblefield
American musician
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Dana Hall
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Von Freeman
American saxophonist
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Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
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Steve McCall
American jazz drummer
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Fareed Haque
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Perry Robinson
American musician
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Joe Farrell
American saxophonist
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Tomeka Reid
American jazz musician
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Luis Bonilla
American musician
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Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Billy Harper
American musician
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Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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David Sanborn
American saxophonist
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David S. Ware
jazz musician
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Michael Coleman
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Maceo Parker
American saxophonist and composer
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The J.B.'s
The J.B.'s
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Bruce Purse
Bruce Purse
Bruce Purse is a musician, composer, arranger, trumpet player. Founder of The Pocketbook Orchestra
Joseph Bowie
American musician

Joseph Bowie

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Joseph Bowie (born October 17, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist and vocalist. The brother of trumpeter Lester Bowie, Joseph is known for leading the jazz-punk group Defunkt and for membership in the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.