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Art Taylor
Art Taylor
American jazz drummer
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Cecil Payne
Cecil Payne
American jazz saxophonist
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Philly Joe Jones
Philly Joe Jones
American jazz drummer
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Osie Johnson
Osie Johnson
American jazz drummer, arranger and singer
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Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
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Ben Riley
Ben Riley
American drummer
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Larry Gales
Larry Gales
American musician
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Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland
American jazz trombonist
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Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse
American musician
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Charlie Persip
Charlie Persip
American jazz drummer
10
Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson
American jazz multi-instrumentalist
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Julius Watkins
Julius Watkins
American jazz musician
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Sam Jones
Sam Jones
American double bassist and cellist
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Wilbur Ware
Wilbur Ware
American musician
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Ernie Henry
Ernie Henry
American musician
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Henry Coker
Henry Coker
American musician
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Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin
American musician
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Curley Russell
Curley Russell
American jazz musician
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Sahib Shihab
Sahib Shihab
American jazz saxophonist and flautist
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
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Tadd Dameron
Tadd Dameron
American pianist
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Hal McKusick
Hal McKusick
American jazz flautist and saxophonist
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Barry Harris
Barry Harris
American bebop jazz pianist
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John Simmons
John Simmons
American jazz bassist
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Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
American jazz guitarist
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Joe Newman
Joe Newman
American musician
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Bill Hardman
Bill Hardman
American musician
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Thad Jones
Thad Jones
American jazz trumpeter
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Wendell Marshall
Wendell Marshall
American jazz musician; double bassist
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Fats Navarro
Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
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Nelson Boyd
Nelson Boyd
American musician
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Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb
American jazz drummer
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Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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Ernie Royal
Ernie Royal
American jazz trumpeter
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Phil Woods
Phil Woods
American saxophonist
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Lennie McBrowne
Lennie McBrowne
American musician
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Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Ben Tucker
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
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Barry Galbraith
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
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Leroy Williams
Leroy Williams
American jazz drummer
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Frank Wess
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Harold Land
Harold Land
American musician
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George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
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Eddie Bert
Eddie Bert
American musician
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Gildo Mahones
Gildo Mahones
American pianist
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Tommy Potter
Tommy Potter
American musician
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Al Lucas
Al Lucas
Canadian jazz musician
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Jo Jones
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Gene Ramey
Gene Ramey
American musician
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Joe Benjamin
Joe Benjamin
American musician
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Urbie Green
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Gene Quill
Gene Quill
American musician
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Leonard Gaskin
Leonard Gaskin
American musician
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Bennie Green
Bennie Green
American musician
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Al McKibbon
Al McKibbon
American musician
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Percy Heath
Percy Heath
American musician
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Britt Woodman
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Oliver Jackson
Oliver Jackson
American drummer
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Billy Bauer
Billy Bauer
American jazz guitarist
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Teddy Kotick
Teddy Kotick
American musician
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Walter Perkins
Walter Perkins
American drummer
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Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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James Buffington
James Buffington
American musician
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Denzil Best
Denzil Best
American jazz drummer
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Walter Davis
Walter Davis
American pianist
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Eugene Wright
Eugene Wright
American jazz musician
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Les Spann
Les Spann
American guitarist
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Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd
American recording artist; jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist
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Clifford Jordan
Clifford Jordan
American jazz saxophone player
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George Tucker
George Tucker
American musician
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Joe Wilder
Joe Wilder
American trumpeter
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Ray Copeland
Ray Copeland
American musician
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Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
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Frank Rehak
Frank Rehak
American musician
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J. C. Higginbotham
J. C. Higginbotham
Jazz trombonist
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Billy Byers
Billy Byers
American jazz trombonist and arranger (1927-1996)
Shadow Wilson
American jazz drummer (1919-1959)

Shadow Wilson

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American jazz drummer (1919-1959)
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Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson (September 25, 1919 – July 11, 1959) was an American jazz drummer.

Much of Wilson's early work was with swing jazz orchestras. He played with Frankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra in 1936, with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this, with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Woody Herman. Later in his career, he played with Illinois Jacquet, Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Newman, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, and Tadd Dameron. The drummer was known to sit in at the famed Minton's Playhouse. His nickname came from "his beautiful light touch with brushes," in the words of bassist Peter Ind. Wilson died of meningitis in July 1959. He never recorded as a leader.