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Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
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Mezz Mezzrow
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
2
Kaiser Marshall
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
3
Buster Harding
Buster Harding
Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
4
J. C. Heard
J. C. Heard
American musician
5
Emmett Berry
Emmett Berry
American musician
6
Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
7
Jonah Jones
Jonah Jones
American musician
8
Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
9
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
10
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
11
Rudy Collins
Rudy Collins
American musician
12
Budd Johnson
Budd Johnson
American musician
13
Buck Clayton
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
14
Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
15
Wesley Wilson
Wesley Wilson
American blues, jazz, and vaudeville singer and songwriter (1893-1958)
16
Sahib Shihab
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
17
Vernon Brown
Vernon Brown
American musician
18
Vic Dickenson
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
19
A. K. Salim
A. K. Salim
American musician
20
Cecil Payne
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
21
Danny Alvin
Danny Alvin
American jazz drummer
22
Guy Longnon
Guy Longnon
French trumpeter and music educator
23
Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
24
Wade Legge
Wade Legge
Jazz pianist and bassist
25
Shad Collins
Shad Collins
American musician
26
Coot Grant
Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
27
Panama Francis
Panama Francis
American musician
28
Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
29
Pete Brown
Pete Brown
American musician
30
Cozy Cole
Cozy Cole
American musician
31
Leonard Gaskin
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
32
Sonny White
Sonny White
American jazz musician
33
Keg Johnson
Keg Johnson
American jazz trombonists
34
Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
35
Idrees Sulieman
Idrees Sulieman
American musician
36
Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
37
Guy Lafitte
Guy Lafitte
French musician
38
Claude Jones
Claude Jones
trombonist
39
Tommy Ladnier
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
40
Manzie Johnson
Manzie Johnson
American jazz drummer
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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Cyril Haynes
Cyril Haynes
American jazz pianist
43
Nat Peck
Nat Peck
American musician
44
Gene Sedric
Gene Sedric
American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
45
Lucky Thompson
Lucky Thompson
American saxophonist
46
Russell Moore
Russell Moore
Pima jazz musician
47
Hilton Jefferson
Hilton Jefferson
American jazz saxophonist
48
Percy Heath
Percy Heath
American musician
49
Clyde Hart
Clyde Hart
American musician
50
Remo Palmier
Remo Palmier
American jazz guitarist
51
Pops Foster
Pops Foster
American musician
52
Toni Harper
Toni Harper
American singer
53
Howard McGhee
Howard McGhee
American trumpeter
54
Everett Barksdale
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
55
Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
56
Charlie Persip
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
57
Walter Thomas
Walter Thomas
American saxophonist
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Elmon Wright
Elmon Wright
American musician
59
Ed Shaughnessy
Ed Shaughnessy
American jazz drummer
60
Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
61
Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith
American musician
62
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
63
James Moody
James Moody
American jazz musician
64
Joe Carroll
Joe Carroll
American singer
65
Milt Jackson
Milt Jackson
American musician
66
Metronome All-Stars
Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
67
Henri Renaud
Henri Renaud
French musician
68
Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
69
Danny Barker
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
70
Lee Collins
Lee Collins
American musician
71
Al McKibbon
Al McKibbon
American musician
72
Stan Levey
Stan Levey
American musician
73
Joe Wilder
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
Kansas Fields
American musician

Kansas Fields

Intro
American musician
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Music

Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields (December 5, 1915, Chapman, Kansas – March 7, 1995, Chicago) was an American jazz drummer.

Fields played in Chicago from the late 1920s, and worked with King Kolax and Jimmie Noone in the 1930s. In 1940, he joined Roy Eldridge's group for a year; he returned to play with Eldridge again later in the 1940s. He briefly led his own ensemble and played with Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Carter before joining the Marines during World War II. After the war, he played with Cab Calloway, Claude Hopkins, Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie (recording with Gillespie in 1951), and Eldridge again before the close of the decade.

He led another group of his own early in the 1950s, then played with Mezz Mezzrow in Europe in 1953. Fields stayed in Europe for more than a decade; he relocated to France and worked as a sideman. In 1965, he returned to Chicago, working once more with Gillespie and doing studio work.