Leon Spencer (November 1, 1945 – March 11, 2012) was an American jazz organist from Houston, Texas. He played piano with David Newman and organ with Melvin Sparks. Spencer recorded for Prestige in the early 1970s with Buddy Caldwell, Idris Muhammad, Melvin Sparks, and Grover Washington Jr.
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Melvin Sparks
American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist
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Sonny Phillips
American musician
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Don Patterson
American jazz organist
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Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Jack McDuff
American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader
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Idris Muhammad
American drummer
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Seldon Powell
American musician
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Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones
jazz musician
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Rusty Bryant
American musician
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Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Richard Holmes
American organist
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Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Johnny "Hammond" Smith
American organist
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Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
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Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
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Bernard Purdie
American drummer
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Houston Person
American saxophonist
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Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Bob Bushnell
musician
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Matthew Gee
American musician
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Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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Walter Perkins
American drummer
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George Duvivier
American musician
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Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
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Kenny Drew
American jazz pianist
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Herbie Lovelle
American musician and actor (1924-2009)
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Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
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Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Ray Barretto
Puerto Rican jazz musician
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Charles Earland
jazz musician
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Sonny Fortune
American saxophonist
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Reuben Wilson
American jazz musician
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Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
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Harold Vick
American musician
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Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
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Tommy Potter
American musician
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Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Oscar Brashear
American trumpeter
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Billy Higgins
American jazz drummer
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Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
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Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
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Chuck Rainey
American bass guitar session musician
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Warren Smith
American musician
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Reunald Jones
American musician
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Roy Brooks
American drummer
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Bob Cranshaw
American musician
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Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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George Freeman
American musician
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Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Horace Parlan
American-Danish jazz pianist
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Gildo Mahones
American pianist
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Charles McPherson
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Joe Beck
American musician
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Eugene Wright
American jazz musician
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Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
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Grover Washington, Jr.
American recording artist, jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist (1943-1999)
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Billy Butler
American musician
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Paul Humphrey
American musician
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Charles Kynard
American musician
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Hank Marr
American musician
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Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
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Hampton Hawes
American jazz pianist
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Montego Joe
Jamaican jazz musician and music educator
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Al Aarons
American jazz trumpeter
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Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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George Coleman
American musician
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Trudy Pitts
African-American jazz musician
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Duke Jordan
American musician
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Bill Hardman
American musician
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Gene Bertoncini
American jazz guitarist
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Neal Creque
American musician
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Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Doug Watkins
American jazz double bassist