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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.
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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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  Russia
  Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
  http://it.wn.com/Aaron_Copland
• Al Green
  Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me," "I'm Still In Love With You," "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together". In 2005, Rolling Stone named him #65 in their list of the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time'. The nomination, written by Justin Timberlake, stated that "people are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Green in 1995, referring to him as "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music." Green has sold more than 20 million records.
  http://it.wn.com/Al_Green
• Andrés Segovia
  http://it.wn.com/Andrés_Segovia
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  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
  http://it.wn.com/Aretha_Franklin
• Art Blakey
  http://it.wn.com/Art_Blakey
• Art Tatum
  http://it.wn.com/Art_Tatum
• Arthur Rubinstein
  http://it.wn.com/Arthur_Rubinstein
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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://it.wn.com/Artie_Shaw
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  Arturo Toscanini
  Arturo Toscanini (; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th century and 20th century, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra he became a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
  http://it.wn.com/Arturo_Toscanini
• Babe Russin
  Irving "Babe" Russin (June 18, 1911 - August 4, 1984) was a tenor saxophone player. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Russin played with some of the best known jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s, including Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. He led his own band briefly in the early 1940s. He solos in the recording the Glenn Miller band made of Jerry Gray's composition, "A String of Pearls" for Bluebird Records in 1941. In 1950, Russin is credited as a musician with the backup band on two Frank Sinatra
  http://it.wn.com/Babe_Russin
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  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
  http://it.wn.com/Barbra_Streisand
• Barney Bigard
  Albany Leon Bigard
  http://it.wn.com/Barney_Bigard
• Ben Pollack
  http://it.wn.com/Ben_Pollack
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  Benny Carter
  Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
  http://it.wn.com/Benny_Carter
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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://it.wn.com/Benny_Goodman
• Bessie Smith
  http://it.wn.com/Bessie_Smith
• Bill Monroe
  William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. He is often referred to as The Father of Bluegrass.
  http://it.wn.com/Bill_Monroe
• Billie Holiday
  http://it.wn.com/Billie_Holiday
• Bing Crosby
  http://it.wn.com/Bing_Crosby
• Bo Diddley
  http://it.wn.com/Bo_Diddley
• Bob Dylan
  http://it.wn.com/Bob_Dylan
• Bob Marley
  http://it.wn.com/Bob_Marley
• Bob Wills
  James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.
  http://it.wn.com/Bob_Wills
• Bobby Bland
  http://it.wn.com/Bobby_Bland
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  Brenda Lee
  Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), better known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis. She is best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", a US holiday standard for more than 50 years.
  http://it.wn.com/Brenda_Lee
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  Buddy Holly
  '''Charles Hardin Holley
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• Burt Bacharach
  Burt F. Bacharach (, ; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick. Following on with the initial success of this collaboration, Bacharach went on to produce hits with Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry and others.
  http://it.wn.com/Burt_Bacharach
• Béla Bartók
  http://it.wn.com/Béla_Bartók
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  Cab Calloway
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.
  http://it.wn.com/Cab_Calloway
• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
  http://it.wn.com/Charles_Mingus
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  Charlie Christian
  Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
  http://it.wn.com/Charlie_Christian
• Charlie Parker
  http://it.wn.com/Charlie_Parker
• Chet Atkins
  http://it.wn.com/Chet_Atkins
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  Chuck Berry
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
  http://it.wn.com/Chuck_Berry
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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://it.wn.com/Count_Basie
• Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American soul, rhythm and blues, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly. From these works and others, he is highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played the guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, and drums.
  http://it.wn.com/Curtis_Mayfield
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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.
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  David Bowie
  David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and posthumous smash "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
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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.
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  Doc Watson
  Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. He performed with his son Merle for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985, in an accident on the family farm.
  http://it.wn.com/Doc_Watson
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  Dolly Parton
  Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
  http://it.wn.com/Dolly_Parton
• Don Redman
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  Doris Day
  Doris Day (born April 3, 1922) is an American actress and singer, and has been an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
  http://it.wn.com/Doris_Day
• Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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• Earl Scruggs
  Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style (now called Scruggs style) on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in 3-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in the "Blue Grass Boys". Scruggs built on earlier styles to develop a truly new and readily identifiable style, involving: unprecedented smoothness, syncopation, and uninterrupted flow; a large vocabulary of unique and original licks; blues and jazz phrases, evident in backup and in solos such as "Foggy Mountain Special;" and an overall coherency and polish that other stylists lacked, which inspired imitation by newer generations of banjo pickers.
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  Eddy Arnold
  Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918–May 8, 2008), known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He created the Nashville sound in the late 1950s, and had 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. Eddy Arnold transcended different musical tastes in country. He served as a role model for future musicians with both his music and his scrupulously moral personal life. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (from 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (since 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
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• Ella Fitzgerald
  http://it.wn.com/Ella_Fitzgerald
• Ella Jenkins
  http://it.wn.com/Ella_Jenkins
• Elvis Presley
  http://it.wn.com/Elvis_Presley
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  Enrico Caruso
  Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercial recordings of his voice, beginning as early as 1902 in Italy and continuing from 1904 until 1920 in the United States. All of his known surviving recordings are available today on remastered CDs.
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  Etta James
  Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, R&B;, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame in both 1999 and 2008. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B; singer. She is best known for performing "At Last", which has been featured in movies, television shows, commercials, and web-streaming services. James has a contralto vocal range.
  http://it.wn.com/Etta_James
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  Fats Domino
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  http://it.wn.com/Fats_Domino
• Fats Waller
  http://it.wn.com/Fats_Waller
• Frank Sinatra
  http://it.wn.com/Frank_Sinatra
• Frank Zappa
  http://it.wn.com/Frank_Zappa
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  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
  http://it.wn.com/Fred_Astaire
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  Gene Autry
  Orvon Eugene Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. Autry was also owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, as well as a television station and several radio stations in southern California.
  http://it.wn.com/Gene_Autry
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  Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
  http://it.wn.com/Gene_Krupa
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  Georg Solti
  Sir Georg Solti, KBE (; 21 October 19125 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He holds the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
  http://it.wn.com/Georg_Solti
• George Beverly Shea
  George Beverly "Bev" Shea (born 1 February 1909) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian centenarian, bass-baritone singer of gospel music and the composer of several hymns and hymn tunes. Shea has often been described as "America's Beloved Gospel Singer" and is considered "the first international singing 'star' of the gospel world," as a consequence of his solos on the Billy Graham Crusades and his exposure on radio, records, and television. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shea holds the world record for singing in person to the most people ever, with an estimated cumulative live audience of 220 million people.
  http://it.wn.com/George_Beverly_Shea
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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://it.wn.com/Glenn_Miller
• Hank Jones
  Henry "Hank" Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. In 2008, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On April 13, 2009, the University of Hartford presented Jones with a Doctorate Degree for his musical accomplishments.
  http://it.wn.com/Hank_Jones
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  Hank Williams
  Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as among the greatest country music stars of all time. He charted eleven number one songs between 1948 and 1953, though unable to read or write music to any significant degree. His hits included "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
  http://it.wn.com/Hank_Williams
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  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (originally Belafonete; born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso," a title which he was very reluctant to accept (according to the documentary Calypso Dreams) for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O." Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration. He also worked as an actor.
  http://it.wn.com/Harry_Belafonte
• Harry James
  http://it.wn.com/Harry_James
• Henry Mancini
  Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
  http://it.wn.com/Henry_Mancini
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  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.
  http://it.wn.com/Irving_Berlin
• Isaac Stern
  http://it.wn.com/Isaac_Stern
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  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones (January 31, 1894 – October 19, 1956) was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.
  http://it.wn.com/Isham_Jones
• Itzhak Perlman
  Itzhak Perlman (; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violin virtuoso, conductor, and master-instructor. He is widely considered to be one of the preeminent violin virtuosi of the 20th century.
  http://it.wn.com/Itzhak_Perlman
• James Brown
  http://it.wn.com/James_Brown
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  Janis Joplin
  Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
  http://it.wn.com/Janis_Joplin
• Jascha Heifetz
  http://it.wn.com/Jascha_Heifetz
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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.
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  Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, his career faltered after Lewis married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a transition to country music.
  http://it.wn.com/Jerry_Lee_Lewis
• Jess Stacy
  http://it.wn.com/Jess_Stacy
• Jessye Norman
  http://it.wn.com/Jessye_Norman
• Jimi Hendrix
  http://it.wn.com/Jimi_Hendrix
• Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
  http://it.wn.com/Joan_Baez
• John Coltrane
  http://it.wn.com/John_Coltrane
• 
  John Lee Hooker
  John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).
  http://it.wn.com/John_Lee_Hooker
• John Lennon
  http://it.wn.com/John_Lennon
• Johnny Cash
  http://it.wn.com/Johnny_Cash
• Johnny Dodds
  Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.
  http://it.wn.com/Johnny_Dodds
• 
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
  http://it.wn.com/Joni_Mitchell
• Judy Garland
  http://it.wn.com/Judy_Garland
• 
  Julie Andrews
  Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
  http://it.wn.com/Julie_Andrews
• 
  Kitty Wells
  Ellen Muriel Deason (born August 30, 1919), known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
  http://it.wn.com/Kitty_Wells
• Lena Horne
  http://it.wn.com/Lena_Horne
• 
  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
  http://it.wn.com/Leonard_Bernstein
• 
  Leontyne Price
  Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
  http://it.wn.com/Leontyne_Price
• 
  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://it.wn.com/Lionel_Hampton
• 
  Little Richard
  Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
  http://it.wn.com/Little_Richard
• Louis Armstrong
  http://it.wn.com/Louis_Armstrong
• Mahalia Jackson
  http://it.wn.com/Mahalia_Jackson
• 
  Maria Callas
  Maria Callas () (December 2, 1923September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice, and great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini; further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her remarkable musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.
  http://it.wn.com/Maria_Callas
• Marian Anderson
  http://it.wn.com/Marian_Anderson
• 
  Martha Tilton
  Martha Tilton (November 14, 1915, Corpus Christi, Texas -December 8, 2006, Brentwood, California) was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. She was sometimes introduced as '''The Liltin' Miss Tilton'''.
  http://it.wn.com/Martha_Tilton
• 
  Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
  http://it.wn.com/Marvin_Gaye
• 
  Max Roach
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
  http://it.wn.com/Max_Roach
• Mel Powell
  Mel Powell (February 12, 1923 - April 24, 1998) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.
  http://it.wn.com/Mel_Powell
• Mel Tormé
  http://it.wn.com/Mel_Tormé
• 
  Merle Haggard
  Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.
  http://it.wn.com/Merle_Haggard
• Michael Jackson
  http://it.wn.com/Michael_Jackson
• Miles Davis
  http://it.wn.com/Miles_Davis
• Mills Brothers
  The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed as The Four Mills Brothers, were an American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century who made more than 2,000 recordings that combined sold more than 50 million copies, and garnered at least three dozen gold records. The Mills Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.
  http://it.wn.com/Mills_Brothers
• Mitch Miller
  http://it.wn.com/Mitch_Miller
• Morton Gould
  Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
  http://it.wn.com/Morton_Gould
• 
  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of blues". Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
  http://it.wn.com/Muddy_Waters
• 
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat "King" Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. He was one of the first black Americans to host a television variety show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his untimely death; he is widely considered one of the most important musical personalities in United States history.
  http://it.wn.com/Nat_King_Cole
• 
  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://it.wn.com/Ornette_Coleman
• Oscar Peterson
  http://it.wn.com/Oscar_Peterson
• 
  Otis Redding
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967, "Otis Redding is rock & roll". Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", was released.
  http://it.wn.com/Otis_Redding
• 
  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
  http://it.wn.com/Patsy_Cline
• 
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.
  http://it.wn.com/Paul_Hindemith
• Paul McCartney
  http://it.wn.com/Paul_McCartney
• 
  Paul Robeson
  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer and film actor, who became noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson was also an All-American athlete, lawyer, writer, trade unionist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace Prize. Robeson achieved international notoriety for both his artistic accomplishments and his outspoken radical beliefs, which largely clashed with the Jim Crow climate of the pre-civil rights United States. As a result, he became a prime target of the political right during the McCarthyist era. Despite being one of the most internationally famous cultural figures of the 20th century, persecution by the US government and media virtually erased Robeson from mainstream US culture and subsequent interpretations of US history; including civil rights and black history.
  http://it.wn.com/Paul_Robeson
• Peggy Lee
  http://it.wn.com/Peggy_Lee
• 
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. His combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. A popular television performer and recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records with record sales so high the label literally stopped counting at Como's behest. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world and his popularity seemingly had no geographical or language boundaries. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Composer Ervin Drake said of him,"... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally."
  http://it.wn.com/Perry_Como
• 
  Pete Seeger
  Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival:See Richard Silverstein,
  http://it.wn.com/Pete_Seeger
• 
  Ramones
  The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
  http://it.wn.com/Ramones
• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
  http://it.wn.com/Ray_Charles
• Red Nichols
  http://it.wn.com/Red_Nichols
• 
  Red Norvo
  Red Norvo (March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments. His major recordings included "Dance of the Octopus", "Bughouse", "Knockin' on Wood", "Congo Blues", and "Hole in the Wall".
  http://it.wn.com/Red_Norvo
• Richard Pryor
  http://it.wn.com/Richard_Pryor
• Robert Johnson
  Robert Johnson may refer to:
  http://it.wn.com/Robert_Johnson
• 
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", though she would go on to success as a jazz vocalist.
  http://it.wn.com/Rosemary_Clooney
• 
  Roy Acuff
  Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
  http://it.wn.com/Roy_Acuff
• 
  Roy Haynes
  Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925 in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz and in a career lasting more than 60-years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He has a highly expressive, personal style ("Snap Crackle" was a nickname given him in the 1950s) and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates.
  http://it.wn.com/Roy_Haynes
• Roy Orbison
  http://it.wn.com/Roy_Orbison
• 
  Sam Cooke
  Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B;, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as The King of Soul for his unmatched vocal abilities and impact and influence on the modern world of music. His contribution in pioneering Soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularizing the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.
  http://it.wn.com/Sam_Cooke
• 
  Sarah Vaughan
  Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century". She had a contralto vocal range.
  http://it.wn.com/Sarah_Vaughan
• 
  Smokey Robinson
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
  http://it.wn.com/Smokey_Robinson
• 
  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://it.wn.com/Sonny_Rollins
• 
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
  http://it.wn.com/Stevie_Wonder
• Stéphane Grappelli
  http://it.wn.com/Stéphane_Grappelli
• 
  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://it.wn.com/Teddy_Wilson
• 
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys is an American rock band, formed in 1961, who gained popularity for their close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of cars, surfing, and romance. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later transformed them into a more artistically innovative group that earned critical praise and influenced many later musicians.
  http://it.wn.com/The_Beach_Boys
• Thelonious Monk
  http://it.wn.com/Thelonious_Monk
• 
  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://it.wn.com/Tito_Puente
• 
  Tom Paxton
  Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
  http://it.wn.com/Tom_Paxton
• 
  Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto; August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz.
  http://it.wn.com/Tony_Bennett
• 
  Van Cliburn
  Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
  http://it.wn.com/Van_Cliburn
• 
  Vladimir Horowitz
  Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (; )  (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were and remain legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
  http://it.wn.com/Vladimir_Horowitz
• 
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
  http://it.wn.com/Willie_Nelson
• Woody Guthrie
  http://it.wn.com/Woody_Guthrie
• Woody Herman
  Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987), known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders. His bands basically played jazz and blues, often including rather experimental material for their time.
  http://it.wn.com/Woody_Herman
• Ziggy Elman
  http://it.wn.com/Ziggy_Elman

• Fanfare for Freedom
• Saint Lawrence Suite: I. Dedication
• Saint Lawrence Suite: II. Quickstep
• Saint Lawrence Suite: III. Chansonette
• Saint Lawrence Suite: IV. Commemoration March
• Jericho Rhapsody
• Derivations: I. Warm Up
• Derivations: II. Contrapuntal Blues
• Derivations: III. Rag
• Derivations: IV. Ride Out
• Symphony No. 4, "West Point": I. Epitaphs
• Symphony No. 4, "West Point": II. Marches

• The Stars and Stripes Forever
• Parade (for percussion)
• On Parade
• Semper Fidelis
• Jubilee
• Fourth of July
• Hands Across the Sea
• Battle Hymn
• National Emblem
• On the Mall
• The Thunderer
• American Youth March
• The Chimes of Liberty
• Happy Go Lucky
• Washington Post
• The Gladiator
• El Capitan
• The U.S. Field Artillery March
• Dixie
• The High School Cadets
• Sound Off
• The Corcoran Cadets March
• American Patrol
• Yankee Doodle
• Manhattan Beach
• National Fencibles March
• Jericho

• American Symphonette No. 2: I. Moderately fast (with vigor and bounce)
• American Symphonette No. 2: II. Pavanne - Allegretto
• American Symphonette No. 2: III. Very fast: racy
• Concerto for Orchestra: I. Moderately fast, with drive and vigor
• Concerto for Orchestra: II. Slowly with stately lyricism
• Concerto for Orchestra: III. Fast: with gusto
• Interplay (American Concertette No. 1): I. With drive and vigor
• Interplay (American Concertette No. 1): II. Gavotte: gaily - moderate bounce tempo
• Interplay (American Concertette No. 1): III. Blues: slow and relaxed
• Interplay (American Concertette No. 1): IV. Very fast - with verge and gusto
• American Symphonette No. 3: I. Moderately fast
• American Symphonette No. 3: II. Intermezzo: slowly
• American Symphonette No. 3: III. Gavotte: bright tempo
• American Symphonette No. 3: IV. Finale: very fast
• Chorale and Fugue in Jazz: I. Maestoso
• Chorale and Fugue in Jazz: II. Allegro vivace

• Billy The Kid Suite: Introduction: The Open Prairie
• Billy The Kid Suite: Street Into A Frontier Town
• Billy The Kid Suite: Mexican Dance And Finale
• Billy The Kid Suite: Prarie Night: Card Game
• Billy The Kid Suite: Gun Battle
• Billy The Kid Suite: Celebration: After Billy's Capture
• Billy The Kid Suite: Billy's Death
• Billy The Kid Suite: The Open Prarie (Reprise)
• Billy The Kid Suite: Waltz
• Rodeo Suite: Buckaroo Holiday
• Rodeo Suite: Corral Nocturne
• Rodeo Suite: Honky Tonk Interlude
• Rodeo Suite: Saturday Night Waltz
• Rodeo Suite: Hoe-Down
• Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise
• Grand Canyon Suite: Painted Desert
• Grand Canyon Suite: On The Trail
• Grand Canyon Suite: Sunset
• Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst

• American Ballads (1976): Star Spangled Banner Overture
• American Ballads (1976): Amber Waves
• American Ballads (1976): Jubilo
• American Ballads (1976): Memorials
• American Ballads (1976): Saratoga Quick-Step
• American Ballads (1976): Hymnal
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): Gospel Train - Old Time Religion
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): Were You There? - Steal Away
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): All God's Children Got Wings
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): Little David Play on Your Harp
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): Calvary - He Never Said a Mumblin' Word
• Spirituals for Strings (1959): Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
• American Symphonette No. 2 (1938): I Moderately Fast With Vigor and Bounce
• American Symphonette No. 2 (1938): II Pavane
• American Symphonette No. 2 (1938): III Fast and Racy
• American Salute (1943)

• All Through the Night
• Estrellita
• "Moonlight" Sonata: 1st Movement
• Serenade
• Windjammer
• Night Watch
• Stars in My Eyes
• Barcarolle
• Onipe
• Nocturne

• Blues in the Night
• Birth of the Blues
• Solitude
• That Old Devil Moon
• Nocturne
• Limehouse Blues
• Mood Indigo
• St. Louis Blues
• Sophisticated Lady
• Big City Blues
• Moonglow
• Deep Purple

• Strangers in the Night
• Georgy Girl
• My Cup Runneth Over
• Winchester Cathredal
• Guantanamera
• Eleanor Rigby
• Darling Be Home Soon
• I'm a Believer
• Tell It Like It Is
• No Milk Today
• Daydream

• España Cañi
• The Peanut Vendor
• Calypso Souvenir
• Brazil
• Ay Ay Ay
• Siboney
• Danzas Afro-Cubanas: La Conga de Media Noche / Danza Negra / Y La Negra Bailaba! / Danza de los Ñañigos
• Andalucia Suite: Guadalquivir
• Danzas Cubanas: In 3/4 Time

• One Note Samba
• More
• Yellow Bird
• Anna
• Adios
• Tropical
• Jamaica Farewell
• Vamos
• Encantado
• Never On Sunday
• Amor
• Desafinado

• Jungle Drums
• La Comparsa
• Gitanerias
• Andalucia
• Malagueña
• Danza Lucumi
• Rhapsodia Negra
• Hawaiian War Chant
• Caravan
• Ritual Fire Dance
• The Little Train of the Caipira
• Tropical
• Batuque

• Overture
• Windjammer (The Ship)
• Life on the Ocean's Waves
• The Sea Is Green
• Madeira
• Music of Porto Santa
• Everybody Loves Saturday Night
• Catalan Melody (Song of the Birds)
• Night Watch
• Kari Waits for Me
• Marianne
• Everybody Loves Saturday Night
• Sugar Cane
• Don't Hurry Worry Me
• The Happy Wanderer
• The Crew (Hornpipe)
• The Village of New York
• New York

Born: ['1913-12-10']

Died: ['1996-02-21']