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Rex Stewart
Rex Stewart
American jazz cornetist
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Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
American jazz bassist
2
Joe Smith
Joe Smith
American jazz trumpeter
3
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
4
Kaiser Marshall
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
5
Sid Catlett
Sid Catlett
American musician
6
Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Don Redman
Don Redman
American musician
8
Cozy Cole
Cozy Cole
American musician
9
Bob Shoffner
Bob Shoffner
American musician
10
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
11
Russell Smith
Russell Smith
American jazz musician
12
Keg Johnson
Keg Johnson
American jazz trombonists
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Chu Berry
Chu Berry
American musician
14
Fats Waller
Fats Waller
American jazz pianist and composer
15
Jonah Jones
Jonah Jones
American musician
16
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Eddie Barefield
Eddie Barefield
American musician
18
Jimmy Harrison
Jimmy Harrison
American musician
19
Peanuts Holland
Peanuts Holland
American musician
20
Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
21
Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
22
Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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Claude Hopkins
Claude Hopkins
American pianist
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
25
Ed Cuffee
Ed Cuffee
American musician
26
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Ernest Hill
Ernest Hill
American musician
29
Doc Cheatham
Doc Cheatham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
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Ralph Escudero
Ralph Escudero
Puerto Rican jazz musician
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Willie Lewis
Willie Lewis
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
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Elmer Chambers
Elmer Chambers
American jazz trumpeter
34
Ben Smith
Ben Smith
American jazz alto saxophonist, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist
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Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins
American blues pianist
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Cindy Blackman
Cindy Blackman
American musician
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Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
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Idrees Sulieman
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
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Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger
American musician
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Andy Gibson
Andy Gibson
American musician
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Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith
American musician
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Dick Vance
Dick Vance
American musician
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Pete Brown
Pete Brown
American musician
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Grover Washington, Jr.
Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Jabbo Smith
Jabbo Smith
American musician
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Don Ewell
Don Ewell
American musician
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Todd Rhodes
Todd Rhodes
American musician
51
Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
American trumpeter
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Eddie Henderson
Eddie Henderson
American musician
53
Original Dixieland Jass Band
Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Paul Horn
Paul Horn
American flautist in jazz and New Age music
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Cat Anderson
Cat Anderson
American jazz trumpeter
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Boo Hanks
Boo Hanks
musical artist
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Louis Metcalf
Louis Metcalf
American musician
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Charlie Dixon
Charlie Dixon
American musician
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June Clark
June Clark
Jazz trumpeter and cornetist
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Joe Locke
Joe Locke
American musician
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Arbee Stidham
Arbee Stidham
American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist
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Johnny Letman
Johnny Letman
American musician
June Cole
American musician

June Cole

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American musician
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Music

June Lawrence Cole (1903, Springfield, Ohio – October 10, 1960, New York City) was an American jazz bassist, tubist, and singer.

Cole's first major employment in music was with the Synco Jazz Band in Ohio; this group later became McKinney's Cotton Pickers while Cole was still a member. He left the Cotton Pickers in 1926 to play under Fletcher Henderson, with whom he stayed until 1928. While with Henderson he played on recordings behind Bessie Smith. In 1928 he toured Europe with Benny Peyton. He remained in Europe for over ten years, playing in the bands of Sam Wooding and Willie Lewis, but spent most of the years 1936-1939 out of music while recovering from a prolonged illness in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1941, leading his own bands in New York and playing in a quartet with Willie "The Lion" Smith in 1947. He continued playing locally in New York through the 1950s, and also ran a record store in Harlem.