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Frank Galbreath
Frank Galbreath
American musician
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Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Castor McCord
Castor McCord
American jazz saxophonist
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
American musician
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Lem Johnson
Lem Johnson
American musician
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John Hicks
John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson
American musician
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Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
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Ronnie Mathews
Ronnie Mathews
American musician
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Rick Derringer
Rick Derringer
American musician
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The 5th Dimension
The 5th Dimension
American popular music vocal group
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Charlie Shavers
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Hayes Alvis
Hayes Alvis
musician
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J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
American author
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Pete Briggs
Pete Briggs
American musician
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
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Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
American jazz alto saxophonist
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Abraham Burton
Abraham Burton
American saxophonist and bandleader
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Ed Summerlin
Ed Summerlin
American musician
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Henderson Chambers
Henderson Chambers
American musician
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Ronnie Burrage
Ronnie Burrage
American musician
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Elmer James
Elmer James
American musician
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J. D. Parran
J. D. Parran
American musician
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Dizzy Reece
Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter
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Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson
composer
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Mary Osborne
Mary Osborne
American musician
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Richard Davis
Richard Davis
American double-bassist
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Bingie Madison
Bingie Madison
American musician
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Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Louis Prima
Louis Prima
American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter (1910-1978)
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Bonnie Hayes
Bonnie Hayes
American musician
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Dave Van Ronk
Dave Van Ronk
American musician
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
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Walter Bishop Jr.
Walter Bishop Jr.
American jazz pianist, recording artist
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Tubby Hayes
Tubby Hayes
British jazz musician
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
American pianist
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Savage Garden
Savage Garden
Australian pop rock duo
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Hamiet Bluiett
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
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Bill Evans
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Eddie DeLange
Eddie DeLange
American stunt man, bandleader, lyricist
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Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Junior Cook
Junior Cook
American saxophonist
Leonard Davis
American jazz musician

Leonard Davis

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Leonard "Ham" Davis (July 4, 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri – 1957) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Davis began his career in St. Louis, playing with the Odd Fellows Boys' Band as a teenager and landing a spot in Charlie Creath's band. Late in the 1920s, he relocated to New York City, where he played in the bands of Edgar Hayes and Arthur Gibbs. He recorded for the first time with Eddie Condon's ensemble in 1929, and sat in with McKinney's Cotton Pickers that same year. In the 1930s he played with Benny Carter, Don Redman, and Elmer Snowden, and did a two-year stint in Louis Armstrong's orchestra starting in 1935. Toward the end of the decade he toured Europe with Edgar Hayes and played in the Blackbirds revue in New York City.

Davis joined Sidney Bechet's revival group in 1940, and also played in bands led by Maurice Hubbard, Albert Socarras, and George James. He continued performing in small-time settings in New York through the mid-1950s.