Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972) was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era. She and Lil Hardin Armstrong are often ranked as two of the best female jazz blues piano players of the period.
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Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Ida Cox
African American singer and vaudeville performer
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Ma Rainey
African-American blues singer
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Mattie Hite
African-American blues singer
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Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Victoria Spivey
American blues singer and songwriter
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Edmonia Henderson
African American classic female blues singer
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Bessie Smith
American blues singer
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Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Bessie Brown
American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer
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Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Lovie Lee
American blues pianist
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Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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Viola McCoy
American blues singer
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Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
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Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
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J. C. Johnson
American musician
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Mamie Smith
American vaudeville singer and actress (1883-1946)
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Clara Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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Martha Copeland
American classic female blues singer
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Porter Grainger
American musician
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Madlyn Davis
American classic female blues singer
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Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
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Jimmy O'Bryant
American jazz clarinetist
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Bessie Tucker
American classic female blues singer and songwriter
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Ruby Smith
American classic female blues singer
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Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
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Jazz Gillum
American blues harmonica player
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Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
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Mike Jackson
American musician, pianist and songwriter
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Esther Bigeou
American vaudeville and blues singer
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Kitty Brown
American classic female blues singer
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Monette Moore
American jazz and blues singer (1902-1962)
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Linda Hopkins
African American actress and blues and gospel singer
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Bertha Idaho
American classic female blues singer
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Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
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Lil Hardin Armstrong
American jazz musician
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J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
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Buster Bailey
American musician
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W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician
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Johnny Dodds
American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist
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Big Mama Thornton
American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
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Frankie Jaxon
African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Katherine Henderson
American classic female blues singer
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Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Ethel Waters
American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
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Charlie Dixon
American musician
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Elmer Snowden
American musician
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Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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Valerie Wellington
American Chicago blues and electric blues singer and actress (1959-1993)
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Noble Sissle
African-American jazz musician
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Ida May Mack
musical artist