Amos Leon Thomas Jr. (October 4, 1937 – May 8, 1999), known professionally as Leon Thomas, was an American jazz and blues vocalist, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and known for his bellowing glottal-stop style of free jazz singing in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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James Spaulding
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Lonnie Liston Smith
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Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Jon Hendricks
American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian
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Al Grey
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Eddie Vinson
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Frank Wess
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Thad Jones
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Arthur Doyle
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Count Basie
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Joe Williams
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Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
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Richard Holmes
American organist
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Cecil McBee
American bassist
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Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
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Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
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Lorez Alexandria
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Bernard Purdie
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Howard Johnson
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Jerry Dodgion
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Alfred Ellis
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Louis Armstrong
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Frank Foster
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Jimmy Owens
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Roy Haynes
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Al Hibbler
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Snooky Young
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Johnny Hartman
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Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
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Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
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John Heard
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Paul Quinichette
American saxophonist and jazz musician
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Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
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Airto Moreira
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Buddy Terry
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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Rachelle Ferrell
American jazz singer
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Big Joe Turner
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Joe Lee Wilson
American singer (1935-2011)
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Lex Humphries
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Billie Holiday
American jazz singer
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
American musical duo, collaboration
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Blanche Thomas
American musician
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Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Bob Thiele
American record producer, music executive (1922-1996)
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Seldon Powell
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Scatman John
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Preston Love
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Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Ward Swingle
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Zeke Clements
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