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Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney
American musician
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Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones
American musician
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
American pianist
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Tony Williams
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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Adam Holzman
Adam Holzman
American jazz keyboardist
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Geri Allen
Geri Allen
American composer and jazz pianist
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Takahito Eguchi
Takahito Eguchi
Japanese musician
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Greg Spero
Greg Spero
American musician
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Chummy MacGregor
Chummy MacGregor
American musician
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Todd Cochran
Todd Cochran
American musician
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Jacky Terrasson
Jacky Terrasson
jazz musician
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Tadd Dameron
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
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Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough
American pianist and singer
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Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
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Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard
American musician
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Robert Glasper
Robert Glasper
American jazz pianist, composer and record producer
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Bill Evans
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
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Richie Powell
Richie Powell
American pianist
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George Russell
George Russell
American pianist and composer
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John Lewis
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern
American pianist
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Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob
French jazz pianist
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Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
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Weather Report
Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Teo Macero
Teo Macero
American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer
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Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen
American musician
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Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller
American jazz musician
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
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Dave Bainbridge
Dave Bainbridge
Keyboardist and guitarist
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Horace Ott
Horace Ott
American musician
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
American jazz pianist
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Friedrich Gulda
Friedrich Gulda
Austrian pianist and composer
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Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott
American composer, bandleader, pianist, record producer and inventor (1908-1994)
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914-1993)
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Jason Lindner
Jason Lindner
American pianist
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Bob Belden
Bob Belden
American musician
Robert Irving III
American pianist and composer

Robert Irving III

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Robert Irving III (born October 27, 1953) is an American pianist, composer, arranger and music educator.

A native of Chicago, Irving was one of a group of young Chicago musicians that in the late '70s and early '80s formed the nucleus of Miles Davis' recording and touring bands. Irving left the Davis band in 1989, and has gone on to a prolific career as touring musician, composer, arranger, producer, educator and interdisciplinary artist. Irving resumed his career as a recording artist under his own name with the 2007 release of New Momentum and more recently with the release of "Our Space In Time" by Robert Irving III Generations (featuring students Irving mentored through the Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Links program).