• A Tribe Called Quest
  A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985. It was composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but appears to have rejoined the group since 2006. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective. Their innovative fusing of hip hop and jazz has had a lasting impact on hip hop music, helping to expand the art of hip hop production. Many of their songs, such as "Bonita Applebum", "Can I Kick It?", "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo", "Scenario", "Check the Rhime", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Award Tour" and "Electric Relaxation" are regarded as classics.
  http://wn.com/A_Tribe_Called_Quest
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  African American
  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
  http://wn.com/African_American
• Albert Ayler
  Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
  http://wn.com/Albert_Ayler
• Alice Coltrane
  Alice Coltrane (née McLeod) (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, composer, and the wife of John Coltrane.
  http://wn.com/Alice_Coltrane
• Antônio Carlos Jobim
  http://wn.com/Antônio_Carlos_Jobim
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  Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
  http://wn.com/Archie_Shepp
• Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
  http://wn.com/Art_Blakey
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  Artie Shaw
  Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
  http://wn.com/Artie_Shaw
• Bengt Hallberg
  Bengt Hallberg (born 13 September 1932) is one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians. He studied classical piano from a very early age, and at 13 years old he wrote his first jazz arrangement. In 1949 he recorded with the Swedish alto saxophonist Arne Domnérus for the first time, an association which has continued. In the 1950s Hallberg played with leading visiting American players, including the trumpeter Clifford Brown and the tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and also Quincy Jones.
  http://wn.com/Bengt_Hallberg
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  Benny Goodman
  In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
  http://wn.com/Benny_Goodman
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  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
  http://wn.com/Bessie_Smith
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  Bill Evans
  William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don Friedman, Marian McPartland, Denny Zeitlin, Bobo Stenson, Michel Petrucciani and Keith Jarrett, as well as many other musicians world-wide. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Marcin Wasilewski, Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Lyle Mays, Eliane Elias and arguably Brad Mehldau, early in his career. He is considered by some to be the most influential post World War II jazz pianist.
  http://wn.com/Bill_Evans
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  Billy Taylor
  Billy Taylor (born July 24, 1921 in Greenville, North Carolina) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. He is currently the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville. Since 1994, he has been the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
  http://wn.com/Billy_Taylor
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  Bix Beiderbecke
  Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz trumpet/cornet soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" (1927) and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. Especially these two recordings helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions but the only one he recorded, mixed classical influences with jazz syncopation. Beiderbecke has also been credited for his influence, directly, on Bing Crosby and, indirectly, via saxophonist Frank Trumbauer, on Lester Young.
  http://wn.com/Bix_Beiderbecke
• Bob Crosby
  Bob Crosby (August 23, 1913, Spokane, Washington – March 9, 1993, La Jolla, California) was an American dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Crosby
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  Boney James
  Boney James, (born James Oppenheim, September 1, 1961 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a saxophonist, songwriter and producer who popularized urban jazz (an updated version of contemporary jazz that contains elements of R&B; and hip-hop). He is one of the most successful instrumental artists of our time, with sales totaling over 3 million records.
  http://wn.com/Boney_James
• Brad Mehldau
  Brad Mehldau (born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. Besides leading his own group, the Brad Mehldau Trio, he has performed with many renowned artists, including Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Mayer, Jimmy Cobb, and classical vocalists Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter.
  http://wn.com/Brad_Mehldau
• Branford Marsalis
  Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.
  http://wn.com/Branford_Marsalis
• Bud Powell
  Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk. Along with Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a key player in the history of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the Charlie Parker of the piano".
  http://wn.com/Bud_Powell
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  Buddy Bolden
  Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.
  http://wn.com/Buddy_Bolden
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  Bugge Wesseltoft
  Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or nu jazz. He has played with Jan Garbarek.
  http://wn.com/Bugge_Wesseltoft
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  Cab Calloway
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.
  http://wn.com/Cab_Calloway
• Cassandra Wilson
  Cassandra Wilson (born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her work, Wilson has won two Grammy Awards.
  http://wn.com/Cassandra_Wilson
• Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the seventies as the front woman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and solo, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
  http://wn.com/Chaka_Khan
• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Mingus
• Charles Pickard Ware
  Charles Pickard Ware (1849–1921), was an American educator and music transcriber. An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a supervisor of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolina during the Civil War. It is here that he transcribed many slave songs with tunes and lyrics, later published in Slave Songs of the United States which is the first collection of American folk music. Charles Ware was also an educator in Boston, Massachusetts.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Pickard_Ware
• Charlie Byrd
  Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 02, 1999) was a famous and versatile American guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. His earliest and strongest musical influence was Django Reinhardt, the famous gypsy guitarist. Byrd became the American guitarist who best understood and played Brazilian music, especially the Bossa Nova genre. In 1962, Byrd collaborated with Stan Getz on the famous album, Jazz Samba, a recording which pushed bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
  http://wn.com/Charlie_Byrd
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  Charlie Christian
  Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
  http://wn.com/Charlie_Christian
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  Charlie Parker
  Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), famously called Bird, or Yardbird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
  http://wn.com/Charlie_Parker
• Chet Baker
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.
  http://wn.com/Chet_Baker
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  Chick Corea
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer.
  http://wn.com/Chick_Corea
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  Christian McBride
  Christian McBride (born May 31, 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors. Over the last decade, McBride has been widely considered to be one of the most influential musicians in jazz. He is regarded as a virtuoso, and is one of the most recorded bassists over the last 20 years.
  http://wn.com/Christian_McBride
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  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the 20th century. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1903.
  http://wn.com/Claude_Debussy
• Clifford Brown
  Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956), aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis.
  http://wn.com/Clifford_Brown
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  Count Basie
  William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
  http://wn.com/Count_Basie
• Courtney Pine
  Courtney Pine CBE (born 18 March 1964, London) is an English jazz musician. At school he studied the clarinet, although he is known primarily for his saxophone playing. Pine is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing the flute, clarinet and keyboards.
  http://wn.com/Courtney_Pine
• Craig Taborn
  Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music.
  http://wn.com/Craig_Taborn
• Cuong Vu
  Cuong Vu (surname Vu; b. Saigon, South Vietnam, September 19, 1969) is a jazz trumpeter and vocalist.
  http://wn.com/Cuong_Vu
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  Cynic (band)
  Cynic is an American progressive metal band, incorporating experimental rock, death metal, and jazz fusion
  http://wn.com/Cynic_(band)
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  Dave Brubeck
  David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
  http://wn.com/Dave_Brubeck
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  David Sanborn
  David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B.; He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
  http://wn.com/David_Sanborn
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  Diana Krall
  Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy and Juno Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. She is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards.
  http://wn.com/Diana_Krall
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  Dizzy Gillespie
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
  http://wn.com/Dizzy_Gillespie
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  Django Reinhardt
  Jean "Django" Reinhardt (; 23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.
  http://wn.com/Django_Reinhardt
• Donald Byrd
  Donald Byrd (born '''Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II''', December 9, 1932, Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A notable sideman for many fellow Blue Note Records artists, Byrd is best remembered as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a pop artist.
  http://wn.com/Donald_Byrd
• Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
  http://wn.com/Duke_Ellington
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  Earl Hines
  Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983) was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".
  http://wn.com/Earl_Hines
• Easy Mo Bee
  Easy Mo Bee (born Osten Harvey, Jr.) is a hip hop/R&B; record producer, known for production work for late 80's artists such as Big Daddy Kane, but most notable for his affiliation with Bad Boy Records in its early years and his heavy production involvement in The Notorious B.I.G.'s acclaimed debut Ready to Die.
  http://wn.com/Easy_Mo_Bee
• Eberhard Weber
  Eberhard Weber (born January 22, 1940 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records sound.
  http://wn.com/Eberhard_Weber
• Eddie Condon
  Albert Edwin Condon (16 November 1905 – 4 August 1973), better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion.
  http://wn.com/Eddie_Condon
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  Eddie Lang
  Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt.
  http://wn.com/Eddie_Lang
• Elizete Cardoso
  Elizete Moreira Cardoso (often listed as Elizeth Cardoso) (Rio de Janeiro, July 16, 1920 – May 7, 1990), was a singer and actress of great renown in Brazil.
  http://wn.com/Elizete_Cardoso
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  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
  http://wn.com/Ella_Fitzgerald
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  Eric Dolphy
  Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. He also played, on a few occasions the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to using an array of extended techniques to reproduce human- and animal-like effects which almost literally made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony.
  http://wn.com/Eric_Dolphy
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  Ernest Hogan
  Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowders, 1865 - 1909) was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (The Oyster Man in 1907) and helped create the musical genre of ragtime.
  http://wn.com/Ernest_Hogan
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  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans. Blake's compositions included such hits as, "Bandana Days", "Charleston Rag", "Love Will Find A Way", "Memories of You", and "I'm Just Wild About Harry". The musical Eubie! featured the works of Blake and opened on Broadway in 1978.
  http://wn.com/Eubie_Blake
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  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
  http://wn.com/Frank_Sinatra
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  Frank Zappa
  Frank Vincent Zappa (; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
  http://wn.com/Frank_Zappa
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  Freddie Hubbard
  Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
  http://wn.com/Freddie_Hubbard
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  Gary Giddins
  Gary Giddins (born March 21, 1948) is an American jazz critic, author, and director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970. After some freelance work as a music and film critic, in 1974 he started writing his column "Weather Bird" for the Village Voice, which he ended in December 2003.
  http://wn.com/Gary_Giddins
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  Gary Thomas
  Gary Thomas (born June 10, 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist from Baltimore, Maryland. He is a member of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Miles Davis and Steve Coleman. He currently is the leader of Peabody Music Institute`s jazz studies.
  http://wn.com/Gary_Thomas
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  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.
  http://wn.com/George_Gershwin
• Geri Allen
  Geri Allen (born June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is an American post bop jazz pianist, producer, and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Mary Stallings, and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans.
  http://wn.com/Geri_Allen
• Gil Evans
  Gil Evans (born 13 May 1912 in Toronto, Canada, died 20 March 1988 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis.
  http://wn.com/Gil_Evans
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  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
  http://wn.com/Glenn_Miller
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  Greg Osby
  Greg Osby (born 3 August 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.
  http://wn.com/Greg_Osby
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  Gunther Schuller
  Gunther Schuller (born November 22, 1925) is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.
  http://wn.com/Gunther_Schuller
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  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
  http://wn.com/Herbie_Hancock
• Horace Silver
  Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.
  http://wn.com/Horace_Silver
• Hubert Laws
  Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist with a 30-year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres, moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  http://wn.com/Hubert_Laws
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  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky () ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
  http://wn.com/Igor_Stravinsky
• Ivo Papasov
  http://wn.com/Ivo_Papasov
• Jackie McLean
  :For other persons named John McLean, see John McLean.
  http://wn.com/Jackie_McLean
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  Jaco Pastorius
  John Francis Anthony Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987), better known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player.
  http://wn.com/Jaco_Pastorius
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  James P. Johnson
  James P. Johnson [also known as Jimmy Johnson] (February 1, 1894–November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was arguably the most important pioneer of the stride style of jazz piano playing.
  http://wn.com/James_P_Johnson
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  James Reese Europe
  James Reese Europe (22 February 1881 – 9 May 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s.
  http://wn.com/James_Reese_Europe
• Jamie Cullum
  Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has presented a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.
  http://wn.com/Jamie_Cullum
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  Jan Garbarek
  Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947 in Mysen, Norway) is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czeslaw Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Effectively stateless until the age of seven (there is no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway) Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. His daughter Anja Garbarek is also a musician.
  http://wn.com/Jan_Garbarek
• Jean Goldkette
  John Jean Goldkette (18 March 1893–March 24, 1962) was a jazz pianist and bandleader born in Patras, Greece. Goldkette spent his childhood in Greece and Russia, and emigrated to the United States in 1911.
  http://wn.com/Jean_Goldkette
• Jean-Luc Ponty
  Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.
  http://wn.com/Jean-Luc_Ponty
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  Jelly Roll Morton
  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (September 20, 1885July 10, 1941), best known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.
  http://wn.com/Jelly_Roll_Morton
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  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres. After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.
  http://wn.com/Jimi_Hendrix
• Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He composed the standards "I'm Glad There is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's the Dreamer in Me".
  http://wn.com/Jimmy_Dorsey
• Jimmy McGriff
  James Harrell McGriff (April 3, 1936—May 24, 2008) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.
  http://wn.com/Jimmy_McGriff
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  Joe "King" Oliver
  Joe "King" Oliver (May 11, 1885 – April 10, 1938) was a jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly noted for his playing style, pioneering the use of mutes. Also a notable composer, he wrote many tunes still played regularly, including "Dippermouth Blues", "Sweet Like This", "Canal Street Blues", and "Doctor Jazz". He was the mentor and teacher of Louis Armstrong. His influence was such that Armstrong claimed, "if it had not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today".
  http://wn.com/Joe_"King"_Oliver
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  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Henderson
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  Joe Venuti
  Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Venuti
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  Joe Zawinul
  Josef Erich Zawinul (July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007) was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Zawinul
• John Coltrane
  John William Coltrane (sometimes abbreviated "Trane"; September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He was prolific, organizing at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
  http://wn.com/John_Coltrane
• John Conyers, Jr.
  http://wn.com/John_Conyers_Jr
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  John Scofield
  John Scofield (born December 26, 1951 in Dayton, Ohio), often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer [http://www.berklee.edu/bt/172/coverstory.html], and many other important artists. At ease in the bebop idiom, Scofield is also well versed in jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul, and other forms of modern American music.
  http://wn.com/John_Scofield
• John Surman
  John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944, Tavistock, Devon) is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player and composer of free jazz and modal jazz often using themes from folk music as a basis. He has also composed and performed much music for dance performances and film soundtracks.
  http://wn.com/John_Surman
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  John Zorn
  John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.
  http://wn.com/John_Zorn
• Johnny Hammond Smith
  http://wn.com/Johnny_Hammond_Smith
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  Joshua Redman
  Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who records for Nonesuch Records. He won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991.
  http://wn.com/Joshua_Redman
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  João Gilberto
  João Gilberto (born João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira on June 10, 1931 in Juazeiro, Bahia) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is credited with having created the bossa nova beat and is known as the "Father of Bossa Nova." His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre in the late 1950s.
  http://wn.com/João_Gilberto
• Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
  http://wn.com/Keith_Jarrett
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  Kid Ory
  Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.
  http://wn.com/Kid_Ory
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  Kirk Whalum
  Kirk Whalum (born July 11, 1958) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured as Whitney Houston's opening act for several years. Whalum has also recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks, with music ranging from pop to R&B; to smooth jazz. Kirk’s musical accomplishments have brought him a total of seven Grammy nominations.
  http://wn.com/Kirk_Whalum
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  Kurt Elling
  Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz vocalist, composer, lyricist and vocalese performer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling first became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. Growing up, Elling sang in choirs and played various musical instruments, but wasn't exposed to jazz until he attended Gustavus Adolphus College. Elling enrolled in graduate school at the University of Chicago Divinity School, but left school one credit short of a master's degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist.
  http://wn.com/Kurt_Elling
• Kurt Rosenwinkel
  Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is an American jazz guitarist who came to prominence in the 1990s. He is known for his distinct sound and style of improvisation that is influenced by artists as diverse as Allan Holdsworth, George Van Eps, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Elmo Hope and The Notorious B.I.G.
  http://wn.com/Kurt_Rosenwinkel
• Lee Morgan
  Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 19, 1972, New York City) was an American hard bop trumpeter.
  http://wn.com/Lee_Morgan
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  Lennie Tristano
  Leonard Joseph Tristano (19 March 1919 – 18 November 1978) was a jazz pianist, composer and teacher of jazz improvisation. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long been appreciated by knowledgeable jazz fans. In addition, his work as a jazz educator meant that he has exerted a substantial influence on jazz through figures such as Lee Konitz and Bill Evans.
  http://wn.com/Lennie_Tristano
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  Lenny White
  Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.
  http://wn.com/Lenny_White
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  Lester Young
  Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums.
  http://wn.com/Lester_Young
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  Lionel Hampton
  Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Lionel_Hampton
• Lonnie Liston Smith
  Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. (born December 28, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with important free jazz artists such as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion / Quiet Storm / smooth jazz and acid jazz genres.
  http://wn.com/Lonnie_Liston_Smith
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  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
  http://wn.com/Louis_Armstrong
• Lu Watters
  Lucius "Lu" Watters (December 19, 1911 in Santa Cruz, California – November 5, 1989 in Santa Rosa, California) was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band in the "West Coast revival" of Dixieland music. This is relational to trad jazz as the musicians tended to be white and had little or no actual connections to New Orleans.
  http://wn.com/Lu_Watters
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven ( (US) or (UK); ; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.
  http://wn.com/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
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  Max Roach
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
  http://wn.com/Max_Roach
• Mike Westbrook
  '''Michael John David 'Mike' Westbrook''' (born 21 March 1936 in High Wycombe) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces.
  http://wn.com/Mike_Westbrook
• Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
  http://wn.com/Miles_Davis
• Nels Cline
  Nels Cline (born in Los Angeles in 1956) is an American guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco. David Carr's book Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star describes Cline as "one of the best guitarists in any genre."
  http://wn.com/Nels_Cline
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  Nils Petter Molvær
  Nils Petter Molvær () also known as NPM (born September 18, 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and producer. Molvær is considered a pioneer in nu jazz and especially the fusion of jazz and electronic music, showcased on his best-selling album Khmer, released by the German record label ECM in October 1997 in Europe and early 1998 in North America.
  http://wn.com/Nils_Petter_Molvær
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  Ornette Coleman
  Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
  http://wn.com/Ornette_Coleman
• Paul Bley
  Paul Bley, CM (born November 10, 1932) is a pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Bley
• Paul Oliver
  :Paul Ambrose Oliver is a 19th Century inventor.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Oliver
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  Paul Whiteman
  Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader and orchestral director.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Whiteman
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  Peter Brötzmann
  Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
  http://wn.com/Peter_Brötzmann
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  Pharoah Sanders
  Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is a Grammy Award winning American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler famously said "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost."
  http://wn.com/Pharoah_Sanders
• Ramsey Lewis
  Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received five gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.
  http://wn.com/Ramsey_Lewis
• Rob Mazurek
  Rob Mazurek (born 1965) is an American composer, jazz musician, and visual artist originally from Chicago, Illinois. Mazurek now resides in São Paulo Brazil.
  http://wn.com/Rob_Mazurek
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  Ron Carter
  Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument.
  http://wn.com/Ron_Carter
• Roy Hargrove
  Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002. Hargrove has played primarily with jazz musicians with stellar careers, from Wynton Marsalis to Herbie Hancock.
  http://wn.com/Roy_Hargrove
• Sade Adu
  Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade, is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group, Sade.
  http://wn.com/Sade_Adu
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  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
  http://wn.com/Scott_Joplin
• Scott Yanow
  Scott Yanow (born 4 October 1954 in New York) is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.
  http://wn.com/Scott_Yanow
• Sonny Bradshaw
  Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw C.D. (28 March 1926 – 10 October 2009), known as the "dean of Jamaican music", and the "musician's musician", was a Jamaican bandleader, trumpeter, broadcaster, and promoter who was a major figure in Jamaican music for more than sixty years.
  http://wn.com/Sonny_Bradshaw
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  Sonny Rollins
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
  http://wn.com/Sonny_Rollins
• Sonny Sharrock
  Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 26, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed.
  http://wn.com/Sonny_Sharrock
• Stan Getz
  Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991), usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young.
  http://wn.com/Stan_Getz
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  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores. He is best known for his work with the fusion band Return to Forever, and his role as a bandleader in several trios and ensembles.
  http://wn.com/Stanley_Clarke
• Stanley Crouch
  Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel ''Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?''
  http://wn.com/Stanley_Crouch
• Stanley Turrentine
  Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:hifqxqy5ldde~T1 Allmusic]
  http://wn.com/Stanley_Turrentine
• Stefon Harris
  Stefon Harris (born 1973) is an American jazz vibraphonist. In 1999, the Los Angeles Times called him "one of the most important young artists in jazz" who is "at the forefront of new New York music" and "much in demand as a star sideman". Harris has played with several jazz luminaries including Kenny Barron, Steve Turre, Kurt Elling, and Charlie Hunter, in addition to releasing several of his own critically well-regarded albums.
  http://wn.com/Stefon_Harris
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  Steve Coleman
  Steve Coleman, born , is an American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader. His music and concepts have been a heavy influence on contemporary jazz.
  http://wn.com/Steve_Coleman
• Steve Lacy
  This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy (businessman).
  http://wn.com/Steve_Lacy
• Sun Ra
  Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name '''Le Sony'r Ra'''; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a 1979 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Sun_Ra
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  Teddy Wilson
  Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist whose sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. He is considered one of the most influential jazz pianists of all time.
  http://wn.com/Teddy_Wilson
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  Terence Blanchard
  Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and Golden Globe-nominated film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz. He was an integral figure in the 1980s jazz resurgence having recorded several award-winning albums and having performed with the jazz elite.
  http://wn.com/Terence_Blanchard
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  Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
  http://wn.com/Thelonious_Monk
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  Theodor W. Adorno
  Theodor W. Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German-born international sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist. He was a member of the Frankfurt School of social theory along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project from 1937 to 1941, in the U.S.
  http://wn.com/Theodor_W_Adorno
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  Tito Puente
  Tito Puente, Sr., (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000), born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was a Latin Jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" (the King) of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that helped keep his career going for 50 years. He and his music appear in many films such as The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest starred on several television shows including The Cosby Show and The Simpsons.
  http://wn.com/Tito_Puente
• Tom Turpin
  Thomas Million John Turpin (November 18, 1871 – August 13, 1922) was an African-American composer of ragtime music.
  http://wn.com/Tom_Turpin
• Tony Williams
  Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams (December 12, 1945 — February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.
  http://wn.com/Tony_Williams
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  Vess Ossman
  Vess Ossman (August 21, 1868 – December 7, 1923) was a leading 5-string banjoist and popular recording artist of the early 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Vess_Ossman
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  Vijay Iyer
  Vijay Iyer is a pianist, composer, bandleader, producer, electronic musician, and writer based in New York City.
  http://wn.com/Vijay_Iyer
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  W. C. Handy
  William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues".
  http://wn.com/W_C_Handy
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  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz musicians of his generation. Shorter's output within the field has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards.
  http://wn.com/Wayne_Shorter
• Wild Bill Davison
  http://wn.com/Wild_Bill_Davison
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  World War I
  World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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  Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American jazz and Western classical virtuoso trumpeter and composer. He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.
  http://wn.com/Wynton_Marsalis
• Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat () (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman. In New York, his was the resident orchestra at the Waldorf-Astoria before and after World War II.
  http://wn.com/Xavier_Cugat
• Zbigniew Namyslowski
  http://wn.com/Zbigniew_Namyslowski

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  Baltimore
  Baltimore () is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County. Founded in 1729, Baltimore is a major U.S. seaport and is situated closer to major Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on the East Coast. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. The harbor is now home to Harborplace, a shopping, entertainment, and tourist center, and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. After a decline in manufacturing, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital are now the city's largest employers.
  http://wn.com/Baltimore
• Basin Street
  Basin Street or Rue Basin in French, is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It parallels Rampart Street one block lakeside, or inland, from the boundary of the French Quarter, running from Canal Street down 5 blocks past Saint Louis Cemetery. It currently then turns lakewards, flowing into Orleans Avenue.
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  Brazil
  Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
  http://wn.com/Brazil
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  Bulgaria
  Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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  Chicago
  Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
  http://wn.com/Chicago
• Cotton Club
  http://wn.com/Cotton_Club
• Grand Terrace Cafe
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  Los Angeles
  Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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  New Orleans
  New Orleans ( or , locally or ; ) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area, (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner) has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population of 1,360,436 as of 2000.
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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  Norway
  Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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  San Francisco
  San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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  Storyville
  :This article is about the New Orleans district. For other things named "Storyville" see Storyville (disambiguation).
  http://wn.com/Storyville

• A Tribe Called Quest
• acid jazz
• Acoustic Ladyland
• Africa
• African American
• Afro-Cuban jazz
• Al Di Meola
• Al Jarreau
• Albert Ayler
• Albert Mangelsdorff
• Alice Coltrane
• altered chord
• American English
• analog synthesizers
• Anita Baker
• Antônio Carlos Jobim
• Archie Shepp
• Archive.org
• ARP Odyssey
• ARP String Ensemble
• arrangement
• Art Blakey
• Artie Shaw
• Arturo Sandoval
• Atheist (band)
• Atlantic slave trade
• avant-garde
• avant-garde jazz
• Bal-musette
• Baltimore
• banjo
• Basin Street
• beat (music)
• Beats per minute
• bebop
• Bengt Hallberg
• Benny Goodman
• Bessie Smith
• big band
• big bands
• Bill Evans
• Billy Taylor
• Birth of the Cool
• Bitches Brew
• Bix Beiderbecke
• Black Arts Movement
• Black nationalism
• Black Orpheus
• blackface
• blue note
• Blue Note Records
• blues
• Bob Crosby
• Bones (instrument)
• Boney James
• Bossa nova
• Brad Mehldau
• Branford Marsalis
• Brazil
• Bud Powell
• Buddy Bolden
• Bugge Wesseltoft
• Bulgaria
• Cab Calloway
• cakewalk
• Camelia Brass Band
• Candiria
• Capitol Records
• Carnegie Hall
• Casiopea
• Cassandra Wilson
• Cecil Taylor
• Chaka Khan
• chamber music
• Charles Mingus
• Charles Pickard Ware
• Charlie Byrd
• Charlie Christian
• Charlie Parker
• Chega de Saudade
• Chet Baker
• Chicago
• Chick Corea
• chord progression
• Christian McBride
• chromaticism
• classical music
• Claude Debussy
• claves
• Clavinet
• Clef Club
• Clifford Brown
• Columbia Records
• composer
• conga
• Congo Square
• cool jazz
• cornet
• Cotton Club
• Count Basie
• Counterpoint
• Courtney Pine
• Craig Taborn
• Cuong Vu
• Cynic (band)
• D'Jalma Garnier
• Dave Brubeck
• David Sanborn
• death metal
• Diana Krall
• Dis Is Da Drum
• Distortion (music)
• Dixieland
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Django Reinhardt
• Donald Byrd
• Doo-Bop
• double bass
• Duke Ellington
• Earl Hines
• Easy Mo Bee
• Eberhard Weber
• Echoes of an Era
• ECM (record label)
• Eddie Condon
• Eddie Lang
• electric guitar
• electronic music
• electronica
• Elizete Cardoso
• Ella Abraça Jobim
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Eric Dolphy
• Ernest Hogan
• etymology
• Eubie Blake
• experimental music
• extreme metal
• field holler
• Fila Brazillia
• Fletcher Henderson
• folk music
• Frank Sinatra
• Frank Zappa
• Freddie Hubbard
• free jazz
• funk
• Gang Starr
• Gary Burton
• Gary Giddins
• Gary Thomas
• George Gershwin
• Geri Allen
• Getz/Gilberto
• Gil Evans
• Glenn Miller
• gospel music
• Graham Haynes
• Grand Terrace Cafe
• Greg Osby
• griot
• Groove (music)
• Gunther Schuller
• Guru (rapper)
• gypsy jazz
• güiro
• Hammond organ
• hard bop
• harmony
• harp
• Herbie Hancock
• hip hop
• hip hop music
• hip-hop
• Horace Silver
• Hot Jazz
• house music
• Hubert Laws
• hymn
• Iceburn
• Idris Muhammad
• Igor Stravinsky
• improvisation
• Ivo Papasov
• J.S. Bach
• Jackie McLean
• Jaco Pastorius
• Jaga Jazzist
• James P. Johnson
• James Reese Europe
• Jamie Cullum
• Jan Garbarek
• Jazz (word)
• Jazz Age
• Jazz fusion
• Jazz poetry
• Jazz rap
• jazz standard
• jazz-funk
• Jazzanova
• Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1
• Jean Goldkette
• Jean-Luc Ponty
• Jelly Roll Blues
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Jimi Hendrix
• Jimmy Dorsey
• Jimmy McGriff
• Jive Records
• Joachim Berendt
• Joe "King" Oliver
• Joe Henderson
• Joe Venuti
• Joe Zawinul
• John Coltrane
• John Conyers, Jr.
• John Scofield
• John Surman
• John Taylor (jazz)
• John Zorn
• Johnny Hammond Smith
• Joshua Redman
• João Gilberto
• jump blues
• Jungle Brothers
• kalimbas
• Kansas City Jazz
• kaval
• Keith Jarrett
• Ken Vandermark
• Kenny G
• Kenny Wheeler
• Kid Ory
• Kind of Blue
• Kirk Whalum
• Kobol (band)
• KRVS-FM
• Kurt Elling
• Kurt Rosenwinkel
• Larry Coryell
• Lars Gullin
• Latin America
• Latin American music
• Latin jazz
• Led Bib
• Lee Morgan
• Lennie Tristano
• Lenny White
• Lester Young
• Lionel Hampton
• Livery Stable Blues
• Lonnie Liston Smith
• Los Angeles
• Louis Armstrong
• Lounge Lizards
• LP album
• Lu Watters
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Lydia Lunch
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Maple Leaf Rag
• marching band
• Max Roach
• McCoy Tyner
• Metro Times
• Mike Westbrook
• Miles Davis
• Miles Smiles
• minstrel show
• Mo' Better Blues
• modal jazz
• Modern Jazz Quartet
• Moog synthesizer
• Music of India
• music of New Orleans
• musical mode
• Native Tongues Posse
• Nels Cline
• New England
• New Orleans
• New York
• New York City
• Newsweek
• Night in Tunisia
• Nils Petter Molvær
• No Wave
• nonet (music)
• Norah Jones
• Norway
• nu jazz
• Ogg
• Okeh Records
• organ trio
• origins of the blues
• Ornette Coleman
• Pat Metheny Group
• Paul Bley
• Paul Oliver
• Paul Whiteman
• Peter Brötzmann
• Pharoah Sanders
• phonograph record
• piano
• Polar Bear
• polyrhythm
• Pop Group
• post-punk
• punk jazz
• punk rock
• quiet storm
• radio
• Ragtime
• Ralph Towner
• Ramsey Lewis
• Red Hot Peppers
• red-light district
• reggae
• Return to Forever
• Rhapsody in Blue
• rhythm and blues
• rhythm section
• ride cymbal
• riff
• Roaring 20s
• Rob Mazurek
• Ron Carter
• Roy Ayers
• Roy Hargrove
• Rufus Harley
• Sade Adu
• samba
• San Francisco
• savannah
• saxophone
• scat singing
• Scott Joplin
• Scott Yanow
• sheet music
• single (music)
• slang
• Sonny Bradshaw
• Sonny Rollins
• Sonny Sharrock
• soprano saxophone
• soul music
• Speak No Evil
• speakeasy
• spirituals
• Spy vs Spy (album)
• Stan Getz
• Stanley Clarke
• Stanley Crouch
• Stanley Turrentine
• Stefon Harris
• Stetsasonic
• Steve Coleman
• Steve Lacy
• Storyville
• straight-ahead jazz
• stride piano
• substitute chord
• Sun Ra
• swing (genre)
• swing (music)
• swing music
• swung note
• syncopation
• Teddy Wilson
• tempo
• tenor saxophone
• Terence Blanchard
• The Bad Plus
• The Headhunters
• The Low End Theory
• The Memphis Blues
• Thelonious Monk
• Theodor W. Adorno
• thrash metal
• thrashcore
• timbales
• Tito Puente
• Todd Sickafoose
• Tom Turpin
• Tommy Dorsey
• Tony Williams
• tritone
• twenty-first century
• uptempo
• Vamp (music)
• vaudeville
• Vess Ossman
• Vijay Iyer
• Village Voice
• violin
• Virginia Minstrels
• W. C. Handy
• W.C. Handy
• wah-wah pedal
• Walkin'
• Wayne Shorter
• Weather Report
• West Africa
• West Coast jazz
• Wild Bill Davison
• Wild Pitch Records
• William Krell
• word of the year
• work song
• World music
• World War I
• Wynton Marsalis
• Xavier Cugat
• Zbigniew Namyslowski

Jazz Filmography

• One, Two, Three... (2002)