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| "1868(01/??) - 1917(04/01)" | Scott Joplin |
| "1873(11/16) - 1958(03/28)" | William Christopher Handy |
| "1877(09/06) - 1931(11/04)" | Charles Bolden |
| "1879 - 1949(07/49)" | Willie Gary Johnson |
| "1882(09/??) - 1939(12/22)" | Gertrude Pridgett Rainey |
| "1885 - 1941(07/10)" | Ferdinand Morton |
| "1885(12/19) - 1938(04/08)" | Joseph Oliver |
| "1886(12/25) - 1973(01/23)" | Edward Ory |
| "1887(02/07) - 1983(02/12)" | James Hubert Blake |
| "1888(01/23) - 1949(12/06)" | Huddie William Ledbetter |
| "1890(03/28) - 1967(12/29)" | Paul Whiteman |
| "1892(04/12) - 1940(08/08)" | Johnny Dodds |
| "1892(07/??) - 1937(09/26)" | Bessie Smith |
| "1893(09/??) - 1929(12/??)" | Lemon Jefferson |
| "1894 - 1935" | Bennie Moten |
| "1894(02/01) - 1955(11/17)" | James Price Johnson |
| "1895(04/01) - 1984(10/17)" | Alberta Hunter |
| "1896(10/31) - 1977(09/01)" | Ethel Waters |
| "1897(05/14) - 1959(05/14)" | Sidney Bechet |
| "1897(11/25) - 1973(04/18)" | William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith |
| "1898(02/20) - 1951(09/17)" | James Edwards Yancey |
| "1898(05/14) - 1975(07/14)" | Arthur James Singleton |
| "1898(06/26) - 1958(08/15)" | William Lee Conley Broonzy |
| "1898(12/18) - 1952(12/28)" | Fletcher Hamilton Henderson |
| "1898(12/24) - 1959(02/14)" | Warren Dodds |
| "1899(04/29) - 1974(05/24)" | Edward Kennedy Ellington |
| "1899(12/05) - 1965(05/25)" | Aleck Miller |
| "1900 - 1931" | Jimmy Harrison |
| "1900(07/29) - 1964(11/30)" | Donald Matthew Redman |
| "1901(08/04) - 1971(07/06)" | Louis Daniel Armstrong |
| "1902(06/06) - 1947(07/12)" | James Melvin Lunceford |
| "1903(03/10) - 1931(08/06)" | Leon Bix Beiderbecke |
| "1903(08/26) - 1972(06/08)" | James Andrew Rushing |
| "1903(12/28) - 1983(03/22)" | Earl Kenneth Hines |
| "1904 - 1978" | Joe Venuti |
| "1904(02/29) - 1957(06/12)" | James Dorsey |
| "1904(03/01) - 1944(12/15)" | Anton Glenn Miller |
| "1904(05/21) - 1943(12/15)" | Thomas Wright Waller |
| "1904(06/11) - 1929(03/15)" | Clarence Smith |
| "1904(08/21) - 1984(04/26)" | William Basie |
| "1904(11/21) - 1969(05/19)" | Coleman Randolph Hawkins |
| "1904- 1973" | Albert Edwin Condon |
| "1905 - 1994" | Thomas Benford |
| "1905(02/10) - 1939(06/16)" | William Henry Webb |
| "1905(05/08) - 1965(06/28)" | Ernest Loring Nichols |
| "1905(06/13) - 1997(06/02)" | Adolphus Anthony Cheatham |
| "1905(08/20) - 1964(01/15)" | Weldon Leo Teagarden |
| "1905(11/19) - 1956(11/26)" | Thomas Francis Dorsey |
| "1906 - 1967" | Francis Joseph Julian Spanier |
| "1906 - 1973" | Jay C. Higgenbotham |
| "1906(01/05) - 1989(11/14)" | Bill Davison |
| "1906(03/03) - 1980(06/27)" | Albany Leon Bigard |
| "1906(03/27) - 1969(02/15)" | Charles Ellsworth Russell |
| "1906(07/25) - 1970(05/11)" | John Cornelius Hodges |
| "1906(08/06) - 1984(11/16)" | Victor Dickenson |
| "1907 - 1991" | Jimmy McPartland |
| "1907(02/27) - 1971(12/12)" | Mildred Rinker Bailey |
| "1907(12/25) - 1994(11/18)" | Cabell Calloway |
| "1908(01/07) - 1967(04/17)" | Henry James Allen |
| "1908(01/26) - 1997(12/01)" | Stéphane Grappelli |
| "1908(01/27) - 1954(11/04)" | Oran Thaddeus Page |
| "1908(03/31) - 1999(04/06)" | Red Norvo |
| "1908(04/20) - 2002(08/31)" | Lionel Leo Hampton |
| "1908(04/26) - 1948(12/09)" | Dave Tough |
| "1908(07/08) - 1975(02/04)" | Louis Jordan |
| "1908(11/02) - 1942(06/02)" | Rowland Bernard Berigan |
| "1908(12/31) - 1952(06/14)" | John Kirby |
| "1909(01/15) - 1973(10/16)" | Gene Krupa |
| "1909(03/27) - 1973(09/30)" | Benjamin Francis Webster |
| "1909(05/30) - 1986(06/13)" | Benny Goodman |
| "1909(08/27) - 1959(03/15)" | Lester Willis Young |
| "1909(10/19) - 1981(01/31)" | Cozy Cole |
| "1910 - 1974" | Harry Howell Carney |
| "1910(01/17) - 1951(03/25)" | Sidney Catlett |
| "1910(01/23) - 1953(05/16)" | Jean Baptiste Reinhardt |
| "1910(05/08) - 1981(05/28)" | Mary Lou Williams |
| "1910(05/23) - 2004(12/30)" | Artie Shaw |
| "1910(05/28) - 1975(03/16)" | Aaron Thibeaux Walker |
| "1910(06/10) - 1976(01/10)" | Chester Arthur Burnett |
| "1910(06/23) - 2000(12/19)" | Milton John Hinton |
| "1910(07/24) - 1985(09/15)" | Charles Melvin Williams |
| "1910(10/13) - 1956(11/05)" | Arthur Tatum |
| "1910(12/07) - 1978(08/24)" | Louis Prima |
| "1910(12/17) - 1988(05/28)" | Melvin Oliver |
| "1911(01/30) - 1989(02/26)" | Roy David Eldridge |
| "1911(05/08) - 1932(08/16)" | Robert Leroy Johnson |
| "1911(05/18) - 1985(11/24)" | Joseph Veron Turner |
| "1911(10/11) - 1985(09/03)" | Jonathan Jones |
| "1911(10/26) - 1972(01/27)" | Mahalia Jackson |
| "1911(11/12) - 1991(12/08)" | Wilbur Dorsey Clayton |
| "1911(12/15) - 1979(08/25)" | Stanley Newcomb Kenton |
| "1912 - 1972" | Don Byes |
| "1912(02/16) - 1984(04/15)" | Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo |
| "1912(03/15) - 1982(01/30)" | Sam Hopkins |
| "1912(05/13) - 1988(03/2)" | Gil Evans |
| "1912(11/24) - 1986(07/31)" | Theodore Shaw Wilson |
| "1913(04/04) - 1983(04/30)" | Muddy Waters |
| "1913(05/16) - 1987(10/29)" | Woodrow Charles Herman |
| "1914(01/09) - 1985(01/26)" | Kenneth Clarke |
| "1914(03/30) - 1948(06/01)" | John Lee Curtis Williamson |
| "1914(04/22) - 1993(05/30)" | Sun Ra |
| "1914(07/08) - 1993(03/08)" | William Clarence Eckstine |
| "1915(01/07) - 1948(12/02)" | Luciano Pozo |
| "1915(01/31) - 1976(06/07)" | Robert Leo Hackett |
| "1915(04/07) - 1959(07/17)" | Billie Holiday |
| "1915(07/01) - 1992(01/29)" | William James Dixon |
| "1915(10/10) - 1999(07/27)" | Harry Edison |
| "1915(11/29) - 1967(05/31)" | William Thomas Strayhorn |
| "1915(12/16) - 1987" | Melvin Edward Alton Murphy |
| "1916(07/29) - 1942(03/02)" | Charlie Christian |
| "1917(02/21) - 1965(03/08)" | Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron |
| "1917(04/25) - 1996(06/15)" | Ella Jane Fitzgerald |
| "1917(08/22) - 2001(06/21)" | John Lee Hooker |
| "1917(09/30) - 1987(04/02)" | Bernard Rich |
| "1917(10/10) - 1982(02/17)" | Thelonious Sphere Monk |
| "1917(10/21) - 1993(01/06)" | John Birks Gillespie |
| "1918(01/27) - 1963(05/24)" | Elmore James |
| "1918(08/19) - 1996(05/28)" | Jimmy Rowles |
| "1918(10/05) - 1942(07/30)" | Jimmy Blanton |
| "1918(12/12) - 1999(03/29)" | Joe Williams |
| "1919 - 1978" | Leonard Joseph Tristano |
| "1919 - 1990" | Art Blakely |
| "1920(04/08) - 1994(11/10)" | Carmen McRae |
| "1920(05/03) - 2001(03/29)" | John Aaron Lewis |
| "1920(06/11) - 1984(09/26)" | Sheldon Manne |
| "1920(08/29) - 1955(03/12)" | Charles Parker |
| "1921(03/02) - 1986(11/03)" | Edward Davis |
| "1921(06/15) - 1977(01/02)" | Erroll Louis Garner |
| "1921(10/10) - 1977(04/04)" | Julius Watkins |
| "1921(10/28) - 2001(06/27)" | Arturo O'Farrill |
| "1922(04/22) - 1979(01/05)" | Charles Mingus |
| "1922(05/18) - 1983(05/06)" | Kai Chresten Winding |
| "1922(09/30) - 1960(09/08)" | Oscar Pettiford |
| "1922(11/07) - 1999(04/27)" | Alois Maxwell Hirt |
| "1923(01/01) - 1999(10/09)" | Milton Jackson |
| "1923(02/27) - 1990(04/25)" | Dexter Keith Gordon |
| "1923(03/28) - 1986(08/21)" | Thaddeus Joseph Jones |
| "1923(04/20) - 2000(05/31)" | Ernesto Antonio Puente |
| "1923(04/25) - 1992(12/21)" | Albert King |
| "1923(04/30) - 2005(04/28)" | Percy Heath |
| "1923(05/13) - 1984(04/23)" | William Garland |
| "1923(07/15) - 1985(08/30)" | Joseph Rudolph Jones |
| "1923(09/24) - 1950(07/06)" | Theodore Navarro |
| "1923(10/17) - 2004(05/06)" | Barney Kessel |
| "1924(01/22) - 2001(02/04)" | James Louis Johnson |
| "1924(02/02) - 1982(07/22)" | Edward Stitt |
| "1924(03/27) - 1990(04/03)" | Sarah Lois Vaughan |
| "1924(04/18) - 2005(09/10)" | Clarence Brown |
| "1924(08/29) - 1963(12/14)" | Dinah Washington |
| "1924(09/27) - 1966(07/31)" | Earl Rudolph Powell |
| "1924(11/25) - 1977(05/30)" | Paul Desmond |
| "1925(03/25) - 1968(06/15)" | John Leslie Montgomery |
| "1925(09/01) - 1982(06/15)" | Arthur Edward Pepper |
| "1925(09/13) - 1999(06/05)" | Melvin Howard Tormé |
| "1925(09/16) - 1999(11/30)" | Charlie Lee Byrd |
| "1925(10/29) - 1985(03/23)" | John Haley Sims |
| "1925(11/24) - 1988(02/15)" | Al Cohn |
| "1926 - 1978" | Frank Rosollino |
| "1926(05/04) - 2006(08/23)" | Walter Maynard Ferguson |
| "1926(05/26) - 1991(09/28)" | Miles Dewey Davis |
| "1926(09/23) - 1967(07/17)" | John William Coltrane |
| "1926(10/13) - 2002(07/02)" | Raymond Matthews Brown |
| "1927(02/02) - 1991(06/06)" | Stan Getz |
| "1927(04/06) - 1996(01/20)" | Gerald Joseph Mulligan |
| "1927(09/09) - 2004(05/18)" | Elvin Ray Jones |
| "1927(09/27) - 1994(05/27)" | Red Rodney |
| "1928(06/20) - 1964(06/29)" | Eric Allan Dolphy |
| "1928(08/21) - 1999(10/04)" | Arthur Stewart Farmer |
| "1928(09/15) - 1975(08/08)" | Julian Edwin Adderley |
| "1929(01/13) - 1994(05/23)" | Joe Pass |
| "1929(04/06) - 1995(02/06)" | Arthur S. Taylor |
| "1929(05/10) - 1990(02/02)" | Mel Lewis |
| "1929(05/16) - 1998(09/28)" | Betty Carter |
| "1929(08/16) - 1980(09/15)" | William John Evans |
| "1929(10/10) - 1992(10/07)" | Edward Blackwell |
| "1929(12/23) - 1988(05/13)" | Chesney Henry Baker |
| "1930(03/16) - 2001(11/16)" | Tommy Lee Flanagan |
| "1930(04/29) - 2006(02/17)" | Ray Barretto |
| "1930(10/30) - 1956(06/26)" | Clifford Brown |
| "1931(05/17) - 2006(03/31)" | John Lenwood McLean |
| "1931(05/17) - 2006(09/02)" | Walter Redman |
| "1931(11/25) - 2000(01/02)" | Nathaniel Adderley |
| "1931(12/05) - 1991(02/09)" | James Cleveland |
| "1933(12/01) - 2006(01/06)" | Louis Allen Rawls |
| "1934(05/01) - 2005(10/20)" | Shirley Valerie Horn |
| "1934(12/09) - 1998(01/15)" | Junior Wells |
| "1936(04/03) - 1961(07/06)" | Rocco Scott LaFaro |
| "1936(07/13) - 1970(11/??)" | Albert Ayler |
| "1936(08/07) - 1977(12/05)" | Ronald Theodore Kirk |
| "1936(11/18) - 1995(10/19)" | Don Cherry |
| "1940(04/12)" | Herbert Jeffrey Hancock |
| "1941(10/11) - 1999(11/08)" | Lester Bowie |
| "1941(12/25) - 1995(04/22)" | Don Pullen |
| "1943(12/12) - 1999(12/17)" | Grover Washington |
| "1945(12/12) - 1997(02/23)" | Anthony Tillmon Williams |
| "1952(05/29) - 2006(06/06)" | Hilton Ruiz |
| "1954(10/03) - 1990(08/27)" | Stephen Ray Vaughan |
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