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Pauline Braddy
American jazz drummer
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Anna Mae Winburn
African-American vocalist and jazz bandleader
2
Blanche Calloway
American singer, bandleader and composer
3
Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
4
Henderson Chambers
American musician
5
Carline Ray
American jazz instrumentalist and vocalist
6
Roz Cron
jazz musician
7
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Cab Calloway
American jazz singer and bandleader (1907-1994)
9
Albennie Jones
American singer
10
Dinah Washington
American singer, songwriter, pianist
11
June Richmond
American singer
12
George Barnes
American musician
13
Clora Bryant
American musician
14
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
15
Vi Burnside
American saxophonist
16
Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
17
Eddie Durham
American musician
18
Jesse Stone
American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter
19
Milt Buckner
American musician
20
Taft Jordan
Jazz trumpeter
21
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
22
Tiny Bradshaw
American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer
23
Paul Webster
Jazz trumpeter
24
Ernie Caceres
American musician
25
Roy Milton
American R&B and jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader
26
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
27
Duke Jordan
American musician
28
Mario Bauzá Cárdenas
American musician
29
Alex Welsh
Scottish musician
30
Big Joe Turner
American blues shouter
31
Ernestine Anderson
American jazz and blues singer
32
Sy Oliver
American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader
33
Floyd Smith
American jazz guitarist
34
Kit McClure
jazz musician
35
Everett Barksdale
American jazz guitarist
36
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American gospel musician
37
Nat Pierce
American musician
38
Henry Coker
American musician
39
Frank Rehak
American musician
40
Albert Ammons
American jazz pianist, recording artist
41
Lorraine Geller
American musician
42
Jan Garber
American musician
43
Ruby Turner
British R&B and soul singer, songwriter and actress
44
Buster Bailey
American musician
45
Ruth Brown
American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)
46
Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
47
Anita O'Day
American jazz singer
48
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
49
Gordon Jenkins
American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s
50
Cassandra Wilson
American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi
51
Barry Galbraith
American guitarist
52
Charles Davis
American musician
53
The Mills Brothers
American jazz and pop vocal quartet
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Jimmy McPartland
American cornetist
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Leonard Gaskin
American musician
