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Sensational Nightingales
Sensational Nightingales
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The Soul Stirrers
The Soul Stirrers
band
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The Fairfield Four
The Fairfield Four
American gospel vocal group
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The Davis Sisters
The Davis Sisters
American gospel group, founded in 1945
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Golden Gate Quartet
Golden Gate Quartet
American gospel vocal group
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Swan Silvertones
Swan Silvertones
American gospel music group
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Clara Ward
Clara Ward
American gospel artist; singer, music arranger, songwriter
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Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant
American pianist
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Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson
American jazz musician
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Jake Hess
Jake Hess
American singer
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
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The Blackwood Brothers
The Blackwood Brothers
American southern gospel quartet
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Jane Ira Bloom
Jane Ira Bloom
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Organ trio
Organ trio
trio including a Hammond organ
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James Cleveland
James Cleveland
American musician
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Arthur Adams
Arthur Adams
American blues musician
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Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
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Ron Carter
Ron Carter
American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
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Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke
American singer
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The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
American band that plays country music
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The 5th Dimension
The 5th Dimension
American popular music vocal group
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer
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Jack Marshall
Jack Marshall
American musician, conductor, composer (1921-1973)
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Atlantic Starr
Atlantic Starr
American R&B band
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The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
American jazz band
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Bernard Purdie
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
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Don Bryant
Don Bryant
American musician
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Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy McGriff
American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader (1936-2008)
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
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The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
American musical group
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
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The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires
American vocal group; back-up singers for Elvis Presley
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John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
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Philip Bailey
Philip Bailey
American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor
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Richard Smallwood
Richard Smallwood
American singer
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Joey DeFrancesco
Joey DeFrancesco
American jazz musician
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The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today. The Hummingbirds inspired a number of imitators, such as Jackie Wilson and James Brown, who adapted the shouting style and enthusiastic showmanship of hard gospel to secular themes to help create soul music in the 1960s.