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Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
American jazz and dance band from the 1920s and 1930s
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Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Bunny Berigan
American musician
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Claude Thornhill
American pianist, composer and arranger
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George Russell
American pianist and composer
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Shake Keane
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines musician (1927-1997)
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Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
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Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
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Stan Kenton
American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
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Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Alphonse Picou
African American jazz clarinetist
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Adrian Rollini
American musician
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Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Bubber Miley
American jazz trumpet and cornet player, composer
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John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
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Chico O'Farrill
Cuban composer and musician
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Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Simon Nabatov
Russian musician
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
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Bud Shank
American saxophonist and flautist
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Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
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Ray Miller
American bandleader
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Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
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Jimmie Noone
American musician
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Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Bill Cunliffe
American musician
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Mark Murphy
American singer
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Freddie Keppard
American jazz musician
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J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Mike Zwerin
American jazz musician
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Luis Russell
American jazz pianist and bandleader
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Chet Baker
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
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Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
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Tom Brown
New Orleans dixieland jazz trombonist
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Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
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Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
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James Moody
American jazz musician
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Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
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Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
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Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
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John Kirby
jazz bassist
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Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Buster Bailey
American musician
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John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Peter Appleyard
Canadian vibraphonist
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Nick LaRocca
American jazz musician
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Don Ellis
American jazz musician
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Mel Powell
American composer
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Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Seger Ellis
American musician
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Ray Bauduc
American musician
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Craig Taborn
American musician
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Eddie Lang
American jazz guitarist
