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May Aufderheide
American composer
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Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
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Joseph Lamb
American composer of ragtime music
3
Ben Harney
American musician
4
Percy Wenrich
American composer
5
Tom Turpin
American ragtime composer and saloon-keeper
6
Charles L. Johnson
American composer
7
James Scott
American ragtime composer
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Eubie Blake
Composer, lyricist, and pianist (1887-1983)
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Fred Van Eps
American banjoist
10
William Albright
Composer, pianist, organist
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Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
12
Arthur Marshall
American composer and pianist
13
William Bolcom
American composer
14
Charley Straight
American musician
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Terry Waldo
American musician
16
Charlotte Blake
American composer
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Alma M. Sanders
American composer
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Grace Leboy
American composer
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Johnny Maddox
American musician
22
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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David Thomas Roberts
American composer
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Louis Chauvin
U.S. ragtime pianist
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Irving Berlin
Russian-born American songwriter
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Winifred Atwell
Trinidad and Tobago musician
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Julia Nunes
American musician
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Kerry Mills
American ragtime composer and music publishing executive
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Jenny Lou Carson
American country music singer-songwriter
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Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
