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Redd Holt
Redd Holt
American musician
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Eldee Young
Eldee Young
American jazz musician; double-bass and cello player
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Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis
American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality
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Charles Stepney
Charles Stepney
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Barbara Acklin
Barbara Acklin
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Cleveland Eaton
Cleveland Eaton
American musician
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Maurice White
Maurice White
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Phil Upchurch
Phil Upchurch
American jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist
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Sweet Inspirations
Sweet Inspirations
American R&B vocal group
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Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato
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The Rascals
The Rascals
American rock band/blue-eyed soul band
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Claus Ogerman
Claus Ogerman
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Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode
American bassist
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The Soulful Strings
The Soulful Strings
American soul-jazz instrumental group formed in Chicago in 1966
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Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton
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Albert Heath
Albert Heath
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Marty Morell
Marty Morell
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Jack McDuff
Jack McDuff
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King Curtis
King Curtis
American saxophonist (1934-1971)
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Bobby Bryant
Bobby Bryant
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Mickey Roker
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
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Lou Blackburn
Lou Blackburn
American musician
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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The Fabulous Counts
The Fabulous Counts
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Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson
American singer (1937-2018)
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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The Supremes
The Supremes
American female singing group
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Eddie Gomez
Eddie Gomez
Puerto Rican bassist
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Rolf Kühn
Rolf Kühn
German jazz clarinetist, composer and big band leader
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Phillip Wilson
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
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Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin
American pianist
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Marvin Stamm
Marvin Stamm
American trumpeter
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Marky Markowitz
Marky Markowitz
American musician
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Ben Tucker
Ben Tucker
American double-bassist
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Red Holloway
Red Holloway
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Chris Karan
Chris Karan
Greek Australian musician
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Dennis Budimir
Dennis Budimir
American musician
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Seldon Powell
Seldon Powell
American musician
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Don Sebesky
Don Sebesky
American jazz musician
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The Impressions
The Impressions
American soul vocal group
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Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Mendes
Brazilian musician
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Eric Gale
Eric Gale
American musician
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann
English rock band, formed in London in 1962
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Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner
British blues musician and radio broadcaster
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Gene Ammons
Gene Ammons
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Ray Barretto
Ray Barretto
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Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Vitouš
Czech bass guitarist, jazz musician and contrabassist
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Felix Pappalardi
Felix Pappalardi
American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist
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Eddie Bert
Eddie Bert
American musician
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The Ikettes
The Ikettes
American vocal group; backing vocalists for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue
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Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson
American pianist (1912-1986)
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The Walker Brothers
The Walker Brothers
American pop band
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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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Larry Bunker
Larry Bunker
American musician
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Snooky Young
Snooky Young
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Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
American guitarist
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Jimmy Owens
Jimmy Owens
jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator
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Al Aarons
Al Aarons
American jazz trumpeter
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Mel Lewis
Mel Lewis
American musician
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Tony Coe
Tony Coe
British jazz musician
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Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer
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Danny Thompson
Danny Thompson
English bassist
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Billy Butler
Billy Butler
American musician
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Joe Farrell
Joe Farrell
American saxophonist
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Roland Hanna
Roland Hanna
American pianist
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Ian Underwood
Ian Underwood
American musician
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Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin
American musician
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Eddie Harris
Eddie Harris
American jazz musician, saxophonist
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George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
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The Pioneers
The Pioneers
Jamaican band

Young-Holt Unlimited (also known as Young-Holt Trio), were a U.S. soul and jazz instrumental musical ensemble from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Drummer Isaac "Redd" Holt and bassist Eldee Young, formerly members of Ramsey Lewis' jazz trio, formed a new outfit called the Young-Holt Trio with pianist Don Walker in 1966. They met with modest success, including the minor hit "Wack-Wack", which charted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1968, the group renamed itself Young-Holt Unlimited, and replaced Walker with Ken Chaney. Under their new name, the group scored a number three Hot 100 hit with "Soulful Strut," the backing instrumental track from Barbara Acklin's "Am I the Same Girl." "Soulful Strut" sold a million copies with the gold record awarded by the RIAA in January 1969, less than 3 months after the track's release. Follow-up releases failed to match the commercial success of "Soulful Strut", and the group disbanded by 1974, with Young and Holt continuing to play in Chicago small bands.

Young died of a heart attack on February 12, 2007, in Bangkok, Thailand, at the age of 71.