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Coot Grant
American classic female blues and vaudeville singer and songwriter
1
Mezz Mezzrow
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
2
Wilson Myers
American musician
3
Art Hodes
American musician
4
Cousin Joe
American blues and jazz singer
5
Kaiser Marshall
American musician
6
Hot Lips Page
American jazz musician
7
Bob Wilber
jazz clarinetist, composer and saxophonist from United States
8
Pops Foster
American musician
9
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
10
Kansas Fields
American musician
11
Lee Collins
American musician
12
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter
13
Clarence Williams
American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher
14
Cliff Jackson
American pianist
15
Buck Clayton
American jazz trumpeter
16
Guy Longnon
French trumpeter and music educator
17
Jimmie Noone
American musician
18
Albert Nicholas
American musician
19
Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
20
Jack Teagarden
American jazz musician
21
Zutty Singleton
American jazz drummer
22
Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
23
Russell Moore
Pima jazz musician
24
Trixie Smith
African American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress (1895-1943)
25
Vernon Brown
American musician
26
John Frederick Coots
American songwriter
27
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
28
John Hammond
American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic
29
Guy Lafitte
French musician
30
Bernard Addison
American jazz guitarist
31
Bunk Johnson
American musician
32
Vic Dickenson
American jazz trombonist
33
Harry Gibson
American musician
34
Danny Alvin
American jazz drummer
35
Baby Dodds
American musician
36
Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
37
Manzie Johnson
American jazz drummer
38
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
39
Claude Hopkins
American pianist
40
Jimmy Rushing
American blues shouter and swing jazz singer
41
Wallace Davenport
American musician
42
Charlie Shavers
jazz trumpeter
43
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
44
Hoagy Carmichael
American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899-1981)
45
Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer
46
Johnny Heartsman
American electric blues and soul blues musician
47
Eva Taylor
American singer and actress (1895-1977)
48
James P. Johnson
American pianist and composer
49
Pierre Michelot
French jazz double bassist
50
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
51
Danny Barker
American jazz musician
