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Lucille Hegamin
American singer and entertainer
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Charlie La Vere
American pianist
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Helen Humes
American jazz and blues singer
3
Maggie Jones
American blues singer and pianist
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Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
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Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
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Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
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George Coleman
American musician
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Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
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Joe Williams
American jazz singer
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Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Lizzie Miles
African American blues singer
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Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Porter Grainger
American musician
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Adele Girard
American jazz harpist
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Rosetta Howard
American blues singer
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Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
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Mel Tormé
American recording artist, singer, songwriter, actor, writer, music arranger (1925-1999)
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Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
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Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Les Spann
American guitarist
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Floyd Jones
American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
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Arnold Moore
American singer
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1932-1975)
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Judy Garland
American actress, singer and vaudevillian (1922-1969)
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Patti Austin
American singer
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Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Lovie Austin
American pianist
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Roseanna Vitro
Jazz singer
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Mousey Alexander
Jazz drummer
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Frankie Jaxon
African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian
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Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
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Dianne Reeves
American jazz singer
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George Benson
American recording artist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
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Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Miff Mole
American jazz musician
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Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Virginia Liston
American classic female blues and jazz singer
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Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
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Kansas Joe McCoy
American Delta blues musician and songwriter
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J. Mayo Williams
American football player and coach, music producer (1894-1980)
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Lonnie Johnson
musician from the USA
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Lou Hooper
Canadian musician
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Helen Gross
American classic female blues singer
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Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
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Al Sears
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Earl Coleman
American singer
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Sippie Wallace
American blues and jazz singer
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Red Garland
American modern jazz pianist (1923-1984)
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Rosa Henderson
American vaudeville, jazz and blues singer
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Valaida Snow
American musician
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Sue Raney
American singer
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Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Big Maybelle
American R&B singer and pianist
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Susannah McCorkle
American jazz singer
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Sammy Price
American pianist
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Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
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Dick Wellstood
American jazz pianist
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Lena Wilson
American blues singer (1898-1939)
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Ronnie Wells
American musician
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Sarah Vaughan
American jazz singer
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Jimmy Rowles
American jazz pianist
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Edna Hicks
American blues singer and musician.
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Jimmy Johnson
American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
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Edith Wilson
American blues singer and vaudeville performer (1896-1981)
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Laurdine "Pat" Patrick
American jazz musician
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Monty Budwig
American double bassist
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Lucille Bogan
American blues singer
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Thomas A. Dorsey
American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
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Annie Ross
British-American actress, singer and vocalist
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June Richmond
American singer
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Jimmy Shirley
American jazz guitarist
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Doug Raney
American musician
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Roosevelt Sykes
American blues musician
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Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Liza Minnelli
American actress and singer
