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Cecil Scott
Cecil Scott
American musician
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Fletcher Allen
Fletcher Allen
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
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Bill Coleman
Bill Coleman
American musician
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Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons
American jazz saxophonist
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Karen Borca
Karen Borca
American musician
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Clyde Bernhardt
Clyde Bernhardt
American musician
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Teddy Hill
Teddy Hill
American musician
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Sonny Clay
Sonny Clay
American musician
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith
American musician
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Joe Venuti
Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Henry Busse
Henry Busse
American musician
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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The Wolverines
The Wolverines
band
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
American musician
21
John Dankworth
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
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Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
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Bud Scott
Bud Scott
American jazz guitarist, banjoist and singer
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Jimmie Noone
Jimmie Noone
American musician
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
band that plays jazz
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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Paul Howard
Paul Howard
American musician
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Norris Turney
Norris Turney
American musician
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Mercer Ellington
Mercer Ellington
American musician
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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George E. Lee
George E. Lee
American musician
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John Altman
John Altman
composer
34
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Alex Hill
Alex Hill
American musician
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Buster Bailey
Buster Bailey
American musician
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Fud Livingston
Fud Livingston
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer
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Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott
British musician
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
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Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Elmer Schoebel
Elmer Schoebel
American musician
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Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Max Roach
Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer
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Buell Neidlinger
Buell Neidlinger
American jazz musician; cellist and double bassist
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Cecil Bridgewater
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
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Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Eddie Lang
Eddie Lang
American jazz guitarist
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
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Jack Walrath
Jack Walrath
Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Bandleader
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Russell Procope
Russell Procope
American musician
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Kid Ory
Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
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Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
American jazz musician
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Benny Golson
Benny Golson
American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger (born 1929)
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Ryan Keberle
Ryan Keberle
American musician
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Dicky Wells
Dicky Wells
American jazz trombonist
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Jack Payne
Jack Payne
British bandleader
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
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Bill Dixon
Bill Dixon
American musician
Lloyd Scott
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician

Lloyd Scott

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American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
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Lloyd Scott (b. August 22, 1902 in Springfield, Ohio) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

In the 1920s Lloyd and his brother Cecil Scott co-led an ensemble which initially played locally in Ohio, then moved on to play in Pittsburgh and then Harlem. At various times they performed as Cecil Scott and His Bright Boys and Lloyd Scott's Symphonic Syncopators, changing their name often (as was common among early jazz ensembles). Among the sidemen in this ensemble were Dicky Wells, Frankie Newton, Bill Coleman, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges, and Chu Berry. As Lloyd Scott and His Orchestra, they recorded in 1927; these were Wells's first appearance on record. After 1929 Lloyd gave up active performance in the band and became its manager, and it performed as Cecil Scott's Bright Boys until its dissolution.

While Cecil went on to perform widely as a sideman, Lloyd did little further work in music and was generally forgotten until a resurgence in interest in Harlem Renaissance jazz bands in the 1980s.