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Ahmet Ertegün

Turkish-American songwriter, record producer, music executive

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Kid Ory

American jazz trombonist

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Jimmie Noone

American musician

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Sherman Ferguson

American musician

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David Benoit

American jazz pianist, composer and producer (born 1953)

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Norman Granz

American jazz musician and producer

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Buster Wilson

American pianist (1897-1949)

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Bud Scott

American jazz guitarist, banjoist and singer

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Arif Mardin

Turkish-American songwriter & record producer

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Dexter Gordon

American jazz tenor saxophonist

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Big Joe Turner

American blues shouter

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Lucky Thompson

American saxophonist

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Mike Melvoin

American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (1937-2012)

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Lennie Niehaus

American saxophonist and composer (1929-2020)

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Ed Thigpen

American jazz drummer

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Paul Bley

Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist

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Bill Traut

American saxophonist

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Georgie Auld

Canadian jazz musician

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Shelly Manne

American jazz drummer

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Walter Benton

American jazz musician

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Addison Farmer

American musician

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Quincy Jones

American record producer

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Love

American rock group

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Lee Young

American musician

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Art Farmer

American jazz trumpeter

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Bob Thiele

American record producer, music executive (1922-1996)

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Ray Charles

American recording artist; musician, singer, songwriter

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Arthur Blythe

American musician

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Boney James

American recording artist; saxophonist, songwriter, and record producer

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Junior Mance

American musician

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Lester Young

American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist

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Patrick Williams

American composer, arranger, and conductor who works in many genres of music, and in film and television (1938-2018)

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Ernie Freeman

American musician

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Johnny Green

American conductor, arranger, composer, pianist; Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s

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Buddy Collette

American musician

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Red Nichols

American jazz musician

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Tommy Flanagan

American jazz pianist

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Joe Castro

American musician

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Sonny Lester

American record producer

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T Bone Burnett

American record producer, musician, and songwriter (born 1948)

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Vann "Piano Man" Walls

American musician

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Carl Perkins

American jazz pianist

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Max Bennett

Jazz bassist

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Mundell Lowe

American jazz guitarist (1922-2017)

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Howard Rumsey

American musician

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Creed Taylor

American record producer

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Ry Cooder

American guitarist, singer and composer

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Betty Carter

American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter

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Yusef Lateef

American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community