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Ahmet Ertegün
Turkish-American songwriter, record producer, music executive
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Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
2
Jimmie Noone
American musician
3
Sherman Ferguson
American musician
4
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
