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Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
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Steve Rochinski
Steve Rochinski
American musician
2
Barney Kessel
Barney Kessel
American jazz guitarist
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Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Victor Gaskin
Victor Gaskin
American bassist
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Tim Landers
Tim Landers
American musician
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Chris Duarte
Chris Duarte
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
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Eddie Gomez
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
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Ryo Kawasaki
Ryo Kawasaki
Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)
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Bill Evans
Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
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Don Randi
Don Randi
American pianist
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The Kinks
The Kinks
English rock band
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Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
American jazz flutist
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Andy LaVerne
Andy LaVerne
American musician
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
American pianist
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Emil Richards
Emil Richards
American musician
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Mose Allison
Mose Allison
American jazz blues pianist and singer
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
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David Bromberg
David Bromberg
American musician
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Maurice White
Maurice White
American musician, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire
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Artimus Pyle
Artimus Pyle
American musician
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Bernard Purdie
Bernard Purdie
American drummer
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Tony Williams
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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Hal Galper
Hal Galper
American pianist
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Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham
American jazz drummer
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Milt Buckner
Milt Buckner
American musician
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Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin
American jazz drummer
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Phil Driscoll
Phil Driscoll
American musician
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Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette
American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer
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Terumasa Hino
Terumasa Hino
Japanese jazz trumpet player
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Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
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Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom
American musician
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Organ trio
Organ trio
trio including a Hammond organ
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A. K. Salim
A. K. Salim
American musician
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Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
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Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
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Adam Nussbaum
Adam Nussbaum
American jazz drummer
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John Bonham
John Bonham
English rock musician and drummer for Led Zeppelin
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Henry Lowther
Henry Lowther
British musician
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Nick Evans
Nick Evans
Welsh jazz and progressive rock trombonist
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Marvin Peterson
Marvin Peterson
American jazz trumpeter and composer
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Charles Stepney
Charles Stepney
American record producer
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Sue Raney
Sue Raney
American singer
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Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson
American jazz bass player, composer and band leader
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
American hard bop jazz pianist
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Lew Soloff
Lew Soloff
American musician
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Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth
English guitarist and composer
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Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
American musician
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
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Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker
English rock drummer
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Tal Farlow
Tal Farlow
American jazz guitarist
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Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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David Spinozza
David Spinozza
American musician
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Max Bennett
Max Bennett
Jazz bassist
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
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Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
Tom Coppola
American musician

Tom Coppola

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Thomas Wilkinson Coppola (born June 6, 1945) is a pianist and arranger, known for being a principal member of the group Air. He also formed Evans and Coppola with vocalist Lucianne Evans and performs with the Tom Coppola Trio.

Tom Coppola began working as a musician in Manhattan in the 1960s, where he met Carolyn Brooks (soon to become Googie Coppola) and Air was formed. Air's self-titled first album was released in 1971. The band's best known album, Shine the Light of Love was released in 1980. Subsequently, the group went on permanent hiatus.

He worked for NBC as a music producer on Saturday Night Live from 1984 to 1990. In 1991 Coppola went to the University of Southern California to study jazz. He later moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he has since performed in several groups, including Evans & Coppola and the Tom Coppola Trio, and has taught in the music department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.