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Wayman Tisdale
Wayman Tisdale
basketball player
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Alberto Socarras
Alberto Socarras
Cuban musician
2
Chick Webb
Chick Webb
American musician
3
Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
4
Eddie Heywood
Eddie Heywood
American jazz pianist, songwriter
5
Benny Carter
Benny Carter
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
6
Marion Brown
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
7
Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician
8
R. Carlos Nakai
R. Carlos Nakai
American flutist
9
Doc Cheatham
Doc Cheatham
American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader
10
George Adams
George Adams
musician
11
The Derek Trucks Band
The Derek Trucks Band
American rock and blues band
12
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
13
Hubert Laws
Hubert Laws
American flutist and saxophonist
14
Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
15
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
16
Oteil Burbridge
Oteil Burbridge
American musician
17
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
American musician
18
Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson
Scottish musician, leader of Jethro Tull
19
McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
20
Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett
American musician
21
Don Burrows
Don Burrows
Australian jazz musician
22
James Galway
James Galway
Flutist from Northern Ireland
23
André Previn
André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
24
Frank Wess
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
25
Donald Glover
Donald Glover
American actor, rapper, singer, comedian and film, television and record producer
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Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist
27
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer
28
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai
British acid jazz band
29
Julie London
Julie London
American actress and singer (1926-2000)
30
Soft Machine
Soft Machine
English rock band
31
Doug Webb
Doug Webb
American musician
32
Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
33
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears
American rock music band
34
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
35
Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
American recording artist; jazz cornet and trumpet player
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Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier
English musician and multinstrumentalist
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Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd
American jazz musician
39
Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
American jazz flutist
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center (born 1961)
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Rodrigo Rodriguez
Rodrigo Rodriguez
musician
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
American jazz musician
43
Clark Gayton
Clark Gayton
American musician
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams
American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
45
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator
46
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
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Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Lyttelton
English jazz trumpeter
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Jack Webb
Jack Webb
American actor, producer, director, author
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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War
War
American funk band
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Ernst Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
53
Joe Farrell
Joe Farrell
American saxophonist
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Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks
American guitarist, bandleader and songwriter
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Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
Wayman Carver
American musician

Wayman Carver

Intro
American musician
Genres
Music

Wayman Carver (December 25, 1905, Portsmouth, Virginia - May 6, 1967, Atlanta) was an American jazz flutist and reeds player.

Carver was one of the earliest flute soloists to perform jazz; while Alberto Socarras preceded him by about five years, Carver was one of very few jazz flautists active in the swing era. His first professional experience was with J. Neal Montgomery. After he moved to New York City in 1931, he recorded with Dave Nelson, and played with Elmer Snowden (1931–32), Benny Carter, and Spike Hughes (1933).

From 1934 to 1939 he played with Chick Webb on both saxophone and flute. After Webb died he continued in the orchestra during its period of leadership under Ella Fitzgerald until 1941. After leaving the jazz scene he became a professor of music at Clark College, where he taught saxophonists George Adams and Marion Brown, among others.